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The magnolia state, the
very nerve center of the deep south, Mississippi just
calls up all sorts of romantic and mysterious visions;
the dark secrets of the southern way of life, of
gentlewomen and men far too polite to say what they
really mean, and far too clever to get anything less
than what they really want. Sound overly dramatic? Well,
maybe so...but Mississippi just does that to us somehow.
Perhaps it's the romantic-sounding names of
Mississippi's cities-places like Biloxi, Jackson,
Meridian, Gulfport-that have us thinking of swishing
organdy and whispered family secrets. Or the antebellum
homes that still grace the streets of Natchez. (Or maybe
we've just been reading too much William Faulkner.)
Whatever the source of our fascination with this state,
it's had a lot of bad press to overcome in the last
hundred years or so, and progress seems to have finally
made its mark. The social and economic inequities that
pre-dated the Civil War have given way to greater social
diversity and opportunity throughout the state, and
Natchez's plantation histories have made room for other
points of view: the Museum of African American Culture
and History is located here, and just up the road, in
Fayette, the state's first black mayor was elected in
1969. Progress marches on.
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