Why I don't like Mississippi (Southaven, Memphis: moving to, suburb, friendly)

[GrandviewGloria]

Louisiana and Mississippi are both poor because they both have enormous populations of low-IQ people, and because they both have miserable climates.

The unbearable heat and humidity encouraged the more intelligent and capable to move elsewhere, while it encouraged the wealthy to import people specifically chosen as likely to be ideal serfs/slaves/wage slaves. Stupidity, strength, and heat tolerance were the ideal characteristics, back when the tasks-at-hand were cutting trees, clearing forests, and working in cotton fields.

The less intelligent tended to have higher birthrates, and also tended to stay put. At the same time, those at the right-hand end of the IQ Bell Curve tended to have fewer children, and also tended to leave the region.

As the preponderance of dullards began to shape the region's politics/religion/culture, the social/political/religious climates in both states began to be as oppressive as the weather. This drove even more of the intelligent and capable, "...as far from there as I could get". The Brain Drain which resulted from reactions to the stagnation and hostility wrought by the unintelligent has been ongoing in both states for well over a century.

IQ and the Wealth of Nations cost well over a hundred Dollars when it first came out. I was proud to pay such a high price for that tiny book, since it went to support an area of scholarship which was (and is) largely forbidden. IQ and the Wealth of Nations: Richard Lynn, Tatu Vanhanen: 9780275975104: Amazon.com: Books

The gist of the book is that intelligent populations tend to generate wealth, while unintelligent populations do not. IQ*and*the*Wealth*of*Nations*--*Lynn*and*Vanhanen*--*data*table*of*national*mean*IQ*studies*summarized *by*Steve*Sailer That table is from the book, and should offer, when compared with the 'Ancestry Map' linked below, some pretty good clues as to why Mississippi and Louisiana are so poor, despite being wonderful places for growing crops, trees, and livestock.

Race and ethnicity in the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[Mouldy Old Schmo]

GG, did you shake the dust from your Birkenstocks when you left Mississippi?

[annie_himself]

Originally Posted by Mouldy Old Schmo

GG, did you shake the dust from your Birkenstocks when you left Mississippi?

...reasons why people don't move to Mississippi.

[brickpatio]

The US Census "Supplemental Poverty Measure" in link below measures poverty rates by state, accounting for cost of living.

California's poverty rate is just under 24%, highest in the nation.

Mississippi equals the national average at 16% and Louisiana is 17%.

Oregon's poverty rate is right at 14%.

The eastern half of Portland looks remarkably similar in buildings and streetscape to much of Memphis. Southern Oregon is not strong at all on employment and salaries. It's a gorgeous and lovely state; my only point is that poverty is not unique to Mississippi as some people seem to imply. Almost every state seems to have a bottom 15 or 20% that struggle.

http://www.census.gov/prod/2013pubs/p60-247.pdf

[annie_himself]

Originally Posted by brickpatio

The US Census "Supplemental Poverty Measure" in link below measures poverty rates by state, accounting for cost of living.

California's poverty rate is just under 24%, highest in the nation.

Mississippi equals the national average at 16% and Louisiana is 17%.

Oregon's poverty rate is right at 14%.

The eastern half of Portland looks remarkably similar in buildings and streetscape to much of Memphis. Southern Oregon is not strong at all on employment and salaries. It's a gorgeous and lovely state; my only point is that poverty is not unique to Mississippi as some people seem to imply. Almost every state seems to have a bottom 15 or 20% that struggle.

http://www.census.gov/prod/2013pubs/p60-247.pdf

Inequality is a huge problem across the nation, however, in many zip codes that would be misconstrued as a communist statement.

[viverlibre]

From 2000 -2010 the black population in Mississippi grew by about 7% and is now around 37.5%. If we have that same growth over the next couple of decades, blacks will start to have major impacts on state-wide elections. Will they react like the populace of Jackson and elect someone with a stated goal of forming the new state of Africa, or support candidates who court employers?

It will be an interesting time indeed and one that I will observe from another venue.

[annie_himself]

Originally Posted by viverlibre

From 2000 -2010 the black population in Mississippi grew by about 7% and is now around 37.5%. If we have that same growth over the next couple of decades, blacks will start to have major impacts on state-wide elections. Will they react like the populace of Jackson and elect someone with a stated goal of forming the new state of Africa, or support candidates who court employers?

It will be an interesting time indeed and one that I will observe from another venue.

Typical

[T. DarcyJones]

Wow....! I'm was thinking of motoring through MS to AR on vacation in the near future.

My other option was to head north out of Atlanta and head due west through TN, crossing the Big Muddy at Memphis and not Greenville which is still my prefered route as I would love to see the Delta country down there. I was in NE & Central AR last year and simply loved the experience, real friendly people, beautiful country etc. (no big city's).

Despite what I've read, I'm hoping for more of the same out of MS....

[Desert kid]

Originally Posted by T. DarcyJones

Wow....! I'm was thinking of motoring through MS to AR on vacation in the near future.

My other option was to head north out of Atlanta and head due west through TN, crossing the Big Muddy at Memphis and not Greenville which is still my prefered route as I would love to see the Delta country down there. I was in NE & Central AR last year and simply loved the experience, real friendly people, beautiful country etc. (no big city's).

Despite what I've read, I'm hoping for more of the same out of MS....

You have nothing to worry about.

[brownbagg]

Originally Posted by GrandviewGloria

Louisiana and Mississippi are both poor because they both have enormous populations of low-IQ people, and because they both have miserable climates.

The unbearable heat and humidity encouraged the more intelligent and capable to move elsewhere, while it encouraged the wealthy to import people specifically chosen as likely to be ideal serfs/slaves/wage slaves. Stupidity, strength, and heat tolerance were the ideal characteristics, back when the tasks-at-hand were cutting trees, clearing forests, and working in cotton fields.

I live in Biloxi Ms, and although you make a good argument, I would say you are misguided. Miss, la, al would be classified as an agriculture area, so the way of thinking would be different from an industrial area, I feel we could still hold our own. Yes I would say we have stupid people, I say it daily, but I don't think it any different from any where else.

and for travel. yu need to see the states from middle ways down, along the coast its a whole another world from the north part of the state. we got casino, deep sea fishing, world class golf course, antebellum homes, historic sites, swamp land, the great misissippi river, lousiana delta, white sand beaches, and in oct. crusing the coast over a hundred miles of hot rod and classic cars, over 15,000 in one place