Relocating to Mississippi?

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Before you start your journey, take a minute and review what makes Mississippi a great place to work and play.

What makes Mississippi real estate worthwhile?

The slender state of Mississippi, like its geographic mirror image and neighbor, Alabama, stretches between the southern border of Tennessee and a stem of land touching the Gulf of Mexico to the south. The Mississippi River squiggles along most of the state’s western border with Arkansas and Louisiana, and Mississippi has taken on not only the river’s Native American Algonquian name meaning "big river," but also many tons of its silt, from frequent flooding.

Political struggles fought in Mississippi during the 20th century have built on earlier protests against post-Civil War treatments of freed African American citizens. In the fiercest struggles, throughout the 1950s and 1960s, African Americans protested for civil rights and met with staunch, and often violent, resistance from Mississippians of European ancestry. Despite this, Mississippi still has the highest percentage of African American residents of any state, at 36 percent of the population.

These struggles were instrumental in causing the migration north from Mississippi that led to consistent decreases in the state’s population. The struggles also helped create at least one of the state’s most notable cultural contributions, the blues. Lone guitar- and harmonica-playing performers in the Mississippi Delta developed an acoustic performance style that combined in urban settings with jazz to produce a variety of popular music in the United States.

Mississippi also produced a 20th-century literary culture whose best-known figures are novelists Richard Wright and William Faulkner. Winner of the 1950 Nobel Prize for literature, Faulkner created the fictional Yoknapatawpha County and populated it with dozens of characters in several of his novels. Faulkner’s invented county occupies an area similar to Lafayette in northeast Mississippi.

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