Poll of the Day > Why is Mississippi still so racist and uneducated?

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Most of the south has left is behind, which I know isn't saying much, but makes Mississippi look even worse.
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Because they don't fund education or have advanced curriculum.
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Jen0125 posted...

Because they don't fund education or have advanced curriculum.

They do have advanced curriculum (I used to be in it.) But yeah, they are actually cutting parts of it out and reducing funding for education. Also, there is an attitude that education is bad and direct job training (like go to a company and learn a job) is better than being cultured or educated.

Why so much educational cutting in Mississippi instead of the rest of South (which also is bad.)
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by advanced i mean modern.

they still teach abstinence only bullshit and i'm sure there are parts where they teach creationism in school. that shit always happens in the southeast.

idk why the south in general sucks with education. it's like that in parts of the southwest too. just with shitting education funding and testing.
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Jen0125 posted...

they still teach abstinence only bullshit

Meh, I 'm reading about that from Post-Enlightenment Modernist German/Austrian thinkers. I don't think that is only a Mississippi notion or relegated to stereotypical Protestant Evangelicals.

Actually, Mississippi's public schools are very government orientated with most of the state needing the government. I just don't know why more so than say...even, Alabama or South Carolina.
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Jen0125 posted...

by advanced i mean modern.

they still teach abstinence only bullshit and i'm sure there are parts where they teach creationism in school. that shit always happens in the southeast.

idk why the south in general sucks with education. it's like that in parts of the southwest too. just with shitting education funding and testing.

I did all of my schooling and college in the south, not once was creationism taught since it's kinda illegal.
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it's definitely not illegal. lots of schools teach it side by side with evolution.

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2014/01/creationism_in_public_schools_mapped_where_tax_money_supports_alternatives.html

it doesn't look like mississippi does though so that's good.
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I wasn't raised here but I Iive in Mississippi now and I'd rather live here in Mississippi than most anywhere else. People who criticize Mississippi mostly don't live here and just go off stereotypes. I've lived just about everywhere from Arizona to North Carolina, from Alaska to Great Britain and with only a few criticisms I have chosen to live here.
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BigOlePappy posted...

Also, there is an attitude that education is bad and direct job training (like go to a company and learn a job) is better than being cultured or educated.

This would be a good thing in basically any other state.
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Im from MS. TC. Your basing this on stereotypes

We are not racist. We talk about our problems

Hell where i work. More and more snowflakes are showing up.
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If you educate the youth the liberals win
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Who ever has the most money wins.

Mobsters
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I fucking knew Jeff Bezos was connected!
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Listen I live in South MS. Gulfport to be exact. And I'm black. I don't know man. Everyone down here is pretty chill. And I'm dating a white girl. So I should really be in a bad spot right? But its all good down here. Its not as racist as people make out to be. And the cost of living is so damn low its hard to move some where else!
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Mississippi isn't real. It's a government hoax

Probably something to do with reconstruction.
That fucked with a lot, lot of things.
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Saithus posted...

Listen I live in South MS. Gulfport to be exact. And I'm black. I don't know man. Everyone down here is pretty chill. And I'm dating a white girl. So I should really be in a bad spot right? But its all good down here. Its not as racist as people make out to be. And the cost of living is so damn low its hard to move some where else!

I think most places are like this, everyone who has never been somewhere gets all their information from news articles that are mostly negative, but really almost everywhere most people are friendly and want to get along
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Saithus posted...

Listen I live in South MS. Gulfport to be exact.

Hey! I did training there when I was in the Army!

And yeah, I don't recall racism there being any worse than any other place I've been.
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Mead posted...

I think most places are like this, everyone who has never been somewhere gets all their information from news articles that are mostly negative, but really almost everywhere most people are friendly and want to get along

Yeah, there have been some high profile instances of racism involving some fans of Boston-area sports teams, and ESPN runs with it like "Is Boston a racist town?" etc etc.

Of course there are racists everywhere and Boston is no exception, but overall this place is like any other.
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Saithus posted...

Listen I live in South MS. Gulfport to be exact. And I'm black. I don't know man. Everyone down here is pretty chill. And I'm dating a white girl. So I should really be in a bad spot right? But its all good down here. Its not as racist as people make out to be. And the cost of living is so damn low its hard to move some where else!

Dude. Im like 45 minutes from there. Glad to see a fellow native

On topic. People treat mississipi like its grovetown from hap and leonard
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good to see local Mississippians defend their state

GTurtlte posted...

Im from MS. TC. Your basing this on stereotypes

We are not racist. We talk about our problems

Hell where i work. More and more snowflakes are showing up.

"We talk about our problems"

*Proceeds to insult other side.

Yup, seems like somebody who is ready to engage in a reasonable discussion about facts and their merits in relation to the topic at hand. Clearly, they are well educated in Mississippi.

JTekashiro posted...

GTurtlte posted...

Im from MS. TC. Your basing this on stereotypes

We are not racist. We talk about our problems

Hell where i work. More and more snowflakes are showing up.

"We talk about our problems"

*Proceeds to insult other side.

Yup, seems like somebody who is ready to engage in a reasonable discussion about facts and their merits in relation to the topic at hand. Clearly, they are well educated in Mississippi.

Snowflake hardly refers to any particular side
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Seems like i offended you by saying the s word

But seriously. We dont judge

Unless you dont have a purty mouth
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Have you actually been to Mississippi or do you live in a liberal state, get your news from CNN unironically, and view everybody who lives outside of that environment as bigots.
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There is a sort of irony in generalizing an entire state as uneducated bigots

OhhhJa posted...

There is a sort of irony in generalizing an entire state as uneducated bigots

Disturbing large amount =/= entire

ForteEXE3850 posted...

Have you actually been to Mississippi or do you live in a liberal state, get your news from CNN unironically, and view everybody who lives outside of that environment as bigots.

I lived there, taught there, worked there, was partially educated there, and one of my mentors is the state rep of education of MS. I am very familiar with MS.

I am by no means anti-Southern, but I never understood why MS lags behind, even, the rest of the South. The coast should bring in revenue from drilling, casinos, tourism, (like In LA, AL, FL) but it doesn't to nearly the same capacity. The Delta has remained neglected. Northwest MS has become a haven for racists. There isn't nearly as much influx of talent or industry as neighboring TN or AL.
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OneGrumpyUncle posted...

I wasn't raised here but I Iive in Mississippi now and I'd rather live here in Mississippi than most anywhere else. People who criticize Mississippi mostly don't live here and just go off stereotypes. I've lived just about everywhere from Arizona to North Carolina, from Alaska to Great Britain and with only a few criticisms I have chosen to live here.

What's the best thing about Mississippi? What made you choose Mississippi? @OneGrumpyUncle
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Why TC. Why choose us

Pick on georgia, alabama. Or hell. Texas
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"Most of the south has left is behind"

no...
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It's racist because it's uneducated.
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Yeah, one leads to the other.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/mississippi-church-rejects-black-wedding/story?id=16878536
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Jen0125 posted...

Because they don't fund education or have advanced curriculum.

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Person106 posted...

OneGrumpyUncle posted...

I wasn't raised here but I Iive in Mississippi now and I'd rather live here in Mississippi than most anywhere else. People who criticize Mississippi mostly don't live here and just go off stereotypes. I've lived just about everywhere from Arizona to North Carolina, from Alaska to Great Britain and with only a few criticisms I have chosen to live here.

What's the best thing about Mississippi? What made you choose Mississippi? @OneGrumpyUncle

@Person106 I would say some of the best things are that the people here in Mississippi for the most part are just friendly and caring towards one another. "Southern Hospitality" is a real thing and it is alive and well in Mississippi. The cost of living is also very reasonable compared to just about everywhere else. While some things like concerts and shows don't always come to Mississippi you are only a short drive to ATL, New Orleans, or Nashville depending on what part of the state you live in. If you like the beach and seafood you have Gulfport/Biloxi and its casinos.

TBH one of the things I miss the most since moving here a little over 16 years ago is I cant get Chinese food delivered around here, but I live in a very nice town where the people at the Chinese food restaurant already know your name and usual order when you call them, just like they do at my dry cleaners, and my dog groomers, and just about everywhere else.

On a side note @BigOlePappy I live in Northwest Mississippi and I'm not sure by what you mean by our area becoming a "haven" for racists.
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it's a feedback loop cause by poverty and crime
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OneGrumpyUncle posted...

Person106 posted...

OneGrumpyUncle posted...

I wasn't raised here but I Iive in Mississippi now and I'd rather live here in Mississippi than most anywhere else. People who criticize Mississippi mostly don't live here and just go off stereotypes. I've lived just about everywhere from Arizona to North Carolina, from Alaska to Great Britain and with only a few criticisms I have chosen to live here.

What's the best thing about Mississippi? What made you choose Mississippi? @OneGrumpyUncle

@Person106 I would say some of the best things are that the people here in Mississippi for the most part are just friendly and caring towards one another. "Southern Hospitality" is a real thing and it is alive and well in Mississippi. The cost of living is also very reasonable compared to just about everywhere else. While some things like concerts and shows don't always come to Mississippi you are only a short drive to ATL, New Orleans, or Nashville depending on what part of the state you live in. If you like the beach and seafood you have Gulfport/Biloxi and its casinos.

TBH one of the things I miss the most since moving here a little over 16 years ago is I cant get Chinese food delivered around here, but I live in a very nice town where the people at the Chinese food restaurant already know your name and usual order when you call them, just like they do at my dry cleaners, and my dog groomers, and just about everywhere else.

On a side note @BigOlePappy I live in Northwest Mississippi and I'm not sure by what you mean by our area becoming a "haven" for racists.

White flight from Memphis and, ironically despite it being middle class, low education. Northwest MS is a unique position of awful education, but a nepotism keeping uncultured, uneducated people in power. My ex got her PhD in Memphis and she even noted....the vibe is very different... in DeSoto county, which was her nice way of saying it was a little racist/uneducated.
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Two separate questions, both of which are based on ignorant stereotypes. For education, while it's ranked low, it's by no means the lowest in *any* chart (which depend on data sources and criteria; for instance, the US census (which Wikipedia uses) lists *California* as having a worse high school graduation rate and, more importantly, a lot of the rankings are skewed by continued education statistics -- which is important because people with higher degrees will move somewhere else for a better job and show up in that state's survey). As for why it's consistently ranked low, are you seriously asking why one of the country's poorest states would lag behind in education? If so, I'd have to question the quality of your state's schools =p

As for allegations of racism, that's difficult to substantiate and every state, country, etc, seems to have some amount of racism. However, if I was ranking the states with the poorest race relations, I'm not sure Mississippi would be that quick to jump to mind considering all of the other states which have made bigger headlines for race riots like Missouri, Massachusetts, California, New York, etc. As such, Mississippi is likely unremarkable in that regard. Allegations of racism seem to be based more on stereotypes than anything, which again likely hate on the state because it's not just poor but has consistently been the poorest state for ages.
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BigOlePappy posted...

White flight from Memphis and, ironically despite it being middle class, low education. Northwest MS is a unique position of awful education, but a nepotism keeping uncultured, uneducated people in power. My ex got her PhD in Memphis and she even noted....the vibe is very different... in DeSoto county, which was her nice way of saying it was a little racist/uneducated.

I'm not trying to start an argument with you @BigOlePappy but;

One of my sisters is a teacher here and both my sisters have kids in school here and I can say from experience that the DeSoto County Schools have greatly improved. I think the misconception that the area is low educated comes from the belief that DeSoto County was where people came when they couldn't afford to go to Collierville or Germantown. We are the only School District in the Region where every High School has a fully funded arts education program, meaning art, drama, and music. Also every one of our public High Schools has their own Theatre for Performing Arts. You cant say that for too many school districts anymore. As far as the conception of "White Flight", everyone Black, White, Hispanic, or anything else is abandoning Memphis because the crime rate in Memphis has gotten out of control. Year after year the crime rate rises, heck even the police are fleeing, every year more and more police are leaving the MPD to go to different police departments. Last year Memphis was rated the fourth most dangerous city in America by Forbes. The thing keeping Memphis afloat is their Industry. Luckily unlike cities like Detroit, Memphis hasn't had a collapse in its job market.
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If evolution was real Mississippi would have evolved smarter by now

Chocolate atheists
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Blightzkrieg posted...

If evolution was real Mississippi would have evolved smarter by now

Chocolate atheists

Idiocracy.

It's a documentary, see: Trump Election.

We got good concerts

The casinos offer good shows

And we have the famous CPR fest on the coast
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As a WHITE spuremicist on reddit

Hm

Fried CHICKEN
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blorfenburger posted...

As a WHITE spuremicist on reddit

Hm

Fried CHICKEN

WTF ??? Lol
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Nice classism in this thread, guys.

Mead posted...

If you educate the youth the liberals win

I think youth are inherently liberal before they become educated. This is why the majority of the votes that go to liberals are the younger generation and the reason why the voting age should be raised to thirty.
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Alteast its not tennesee

Purty mouth folks
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