UNBOXING MISSISSIPPI: What It's Like Living in MISSISSIPPI

is mississippi racist is mississippi poor and is mississippi still living in the past we're going to talk about those deep uncomfortable questions and talk about a whole lot more too so grab your mammies and your papi's in your paws we're gonna unbox the state of mississippi the mississippi river what a grand gal she is it's the second longest river in the country and certainly one of the widest in the world i mean at the top of this river this thing's 11 miles wide there's water in that thing from 31 different states and even parts of canada along its banks are many major cities this waterway has been a critical means of transportation power and food for this country since before we were even a country one out of every four species of fish is found in this river and it's home to 40 percent of all migratory birds found in the u.s it really is an ecological wonder there's stories about this river that make for some good reading lots of big boats met its bottom and many songs have been written about its muddy waters too today engineers are constantly battling with this river creating artificial dams banks and levees to try to keep the river within its current course it's very important to south and the state of mississippi in particular but this area near the river here in mississippi is just a small part of the state overall the state has a lot more to explore and odds are if you moved here you wouldn't live anywhere near the mighty mississippi if you're curious about what mississippi's like and are thinking of making this your home well then you need to know all about the magnolia state and i think you might be surprised to hear this state far exceeds whatever stereotypes you've heard in the past i'd bet if you moved here you might find it's better than you expect but worse than you would like this is mississippi you could break the state up into several areas and each one would have its own culture its own economic outlook and outlook on life some areas are really bad and some parts of the state are doing really well it's an average sized state about the size of new york but the population here is only about size of san antonio but the population here is shrinking we'll see why soon enough but for now let's begin our tour of the state up here in the northwest part of mississippi this smallish pocket up here is mostly made of desoto county almost the entire region here is a bedroom community from memphis tennessee and a lot of people who live here actually commute into memphis for work it's not too bad a place to live up here and if you wound up with a job in memphis you should consider living on this side of the state since the cost of living is so much lower and you know memphis is memphis south haven is right along the tennessee state line it's not too bad a place to live in fact this county is just about the fastest growing county in the whole state there's bad parts in south haven just like there's going to be bad parts in nearby hernando but it's sort of a mini economic hub up here crime isn't really too bad and schools are actually decent enough for a state with really bad schools hernando is actually fairly expensive for mississippi where a home like this fetches somewhere in the 280 k range it's sort of an ice pocket up here in this part of the state but it's pretty different over here on the other side of the state northeast mississippi is pretty much the appalachian part of the state but only in a cultural sense there aren't many mountains here at all in fact the highest point in the state is only about 800 feet there's a lot of small towns up here lots of woods and where there aren't trees it's just farms and livestock mostly honestly there's only two places up here worthy of talking about in a short video but they are nice places to live tupelo's here it's a pretty small city home to 38 000 people tupelo isn't too bad a place to live it has a vibrant downtown area some say it's one of the best small cities to live in mississippi it's not going to be very exciting homes here are about 200k and as we'll see it's cheap living down here in mississippi boy tupelo is also where elvis was born so that's cool jobs wise it ain't pretty but at least they have a toyota factory just outside of town just an hour of the west is another city of note oxford this is home to the university of mississippi or ole miss now this place is known for being very rich and preppy and many of the kids who go to school here are called snobby spoiled party kids oxford's a dynamic community and it's the fastest growing city in this whole state it's a college town so there's gonna be a lot of culture a home here is about 250k so it's a bit more expensive folks downstate don't call this ole miss they call it t-sun or the school up north that's because there's a big rivalry between ole miss and mississippi state located here in starkville in the east central part of the state which has its whole culture thing going on starkville is the second biggest city on this side of the state a lot of the culture here centers around mississippi state university it too is a pretty nice place to live where there's a lot going on to keep your brain stimulated if oxford's all preppy people you could say starkville is more country boy redneck that's part of the reason these two schools don't like one another when they play in football every november it's a huge deal they call it the egg bowl ole miss usually wins and there's always fights in the parking lot it's far cheaper to live in starkville closer to the 225k range they call this part of the state the golden triangle because of the location of three major cities here starkville columbus and west point there's actually a lot of good jobs in research manufacturing aerospace and the like here and that provides a big boost to a kind of poor part of the state so that's good there's tons of jobs here but many are advanced manufacturing meaning they take more brains than brawn so there's a lot of unfilled jobs in this part of state columbus isn't a very desirable place to live nor is west point both are high crime and run down in many areas but they're cheap meridian is the biggest city on this side of the state there's 37 000 people here but its populations dropping mostly because of crime and a lack of jobs and things to do it's the third most dangerous place in the state so it's likely you wouldn't want to live there there's a lot of drugs and homeless folks hanging around the only native american reservation in this state is located in this region but it's not very big it's the choctaw reservation there's 11 000 people who live there a lot of this side of the state relies on farming livestock and lumber this side of the state has really rich black soil in many areas they used to grow a lot more cotton here but now it's a lot of soybeans and there's a lot of baptists here too mississippi isn't in the bible belt it is the bible belt this is the most religious state of all where eight in 10 people say they are highly religious half the state's a baptist there's actually four times more baptist in mississippi per capita than the rest of the country on average driving around these parts it probably seems like there's a fundamentalist baptist church on every corner and the whole separation of church and state thing it's more of an optional thing here in mississippi of course there are some real strong stereotypes associated with state of mississippi it might be the most widely stereotyped state of all you've heard it all before and so are folks who live here you know saying they're first on every bad list and last on every good list they're known as all being overweight undereducated and poor and there's nowhere more deserving of that stereotype than the western side of the state and specifically the mississippi delta region where it's rural farms and very poor a long time ago this was the center of the deep southern plantation life due to the rich soil and nearby mississippi cotton plantations sprung up here and were very important to this entire region the mississippi delta was called the most southern place on earth during the civil war days but times change farm production means less labor and less people want to do that labor many of these communities that were once thriving and very wealthy are dying off much of the land here is owned by a few wealthy people and many of the people who live here are poor and black it's eighty percent black in the mississippi delta region and one in four people here lives below the poverty line the new york times called the delta a dysfunctional third world society right here in the heart of america mississippi is a poor state overall of course 20 percent of folks live in poverty which is double the u.s average and the highest of all states and of course i'm sure you've heard mississippi has a problem with its schools and they do the state ranks sixth and dropout rates at eight percent the schools here are very much underfunded part of that's because of a low property tax base and a lack of income streams and they pay teachers very poorly here in some places like here in the delta the culture's given up so the teachers have given up and so the students have given up but they are improving and graduation rates here recently reached an all-time high so that's good obesity in this state is a huge problem part of that's because of poverty and the whole education thing and some of it's because they just have some really damn good food here i mean they try to teach people about healthy eating habits but lots of folks say that's taking away their freedoms you know their freedom to eat whatever they want mississippi has a problem with kids having babies with stds with just basic stuff that most of the countries figured out the birth rate for the u.s has been going down for a while now but not here in mississippi they start young here they rank number one for teenage pregnancies some say there's a reason the blues were invented in mississippi's delta this place has been dying a slow death for decades now and there's no sign of things changing they're trying to improve their image one time the state ran a campaign called mississippi believe it where they poked fun at their own stereotypes like yes we can read a few of us can even write and notably mississippi did move up on the u.s news rankings from the second worst date to the fourth worst date and they get high marks for community involvement and for air and water quality and social support so that's good the state's well known for having mild winters and terrible summers like the summer heat and humidity is going to make you curse the day you move here some call this the hottest place on earth in august it rains a lot only louisiana sees more rain every year tornadoes are a new threat as dixie alley seems to be the new tornado hot spot of late the delta here is very much swampy and there's skeeters snakes owls and gators all over it's very wild and untamed and in many areas very rural a supermarket in this part of the state is going to be hard to come by so if you want to get your pig knuckles your hog jowls your boiled peanuts and your hunting magazines it's going to be like a 20-minute commute and even further if you wanted something organic good luck with that the biggest cities in the delta are going to be places like clarksdale greenville and greenwood which are all just really really bad places for crime and poverty the only place you might consider your home in the delta region might be a little cleveland which has 12 000 people and it's home to delta state university but it's likely you aren't thinking about moving to mississippi to live out in the boonies you need a social life and a good job and things to do right next door is the capital region of the state home to the biggest place to live jackson now jackson's in serious trouble with crime and racism sure the population here is only 166 000 people so this certainly isn't a big city for mississippi it is and 128 murders last year that'd be small for a city like chicago or l.a but it's every third day somebody in jackson's killed usually by gunfire typically it's a young black male involved in gangs or drugs and look how it ain't getting much better here over time either jackson's sort of in the middle between new orleans and memphis which are also very very troubled when it comes to gangs drugs and low lives so they lose turf in one of these two cities and then sometimes they come to jackson to set up new turf at least that's part of why jackson's crime is so bad but large parts of this city are just run down poor and filled with lots of folks who rob steal and act a fool town where you can be held up while pumping gas two blocks from the capitol building where you can be stabbed over a bag of skills right outside a damn church look at this list shame shame shame on you jackson you're up there with the big boys now and jackson schools are terrible they pay the teachers really poorly and many have to work second jobs and they make it hard to be a public school teacher in mississippi too with all the roadblocks they put in place and they wonder why there's a teacher shortage here that is a damn shame the west side of jackson and parts of the city's south side the worst of it along with many areas in and near downtown don't move to those areas if you have to live in jackson instead try areas like fondren or belhaven which are nice historic neighborhoods sort of near downtown there's some culture here or more likely you'd want to settle in places like ridgeland madison or gluckstadt kind of this whole area in madison county is where the middle upper middle and super rich classes live clinton is also nice there's even a big nissan plan up here if you're a blue collar type another area to avoid is pearl here which has some really good folks honestly but it has a lot of trailer parks and rundown areas and drug related crimes but you get deeper into rankin county and you have places like brandon which is very waspy there's actually lots of areas around jackson in any direction to consider if you wanted country living but had to punch the clock every day jackson does have a lot of culture of course and there's going to be more jobs here than any other part of the state they won't pay very well but it's mississippi come on now they actually host the international ballet competition here if that's your thing it's not my thing but hey we're all different of course being the state capital politics are a big deal here this is the most conservative state in the country where half the population's conservative and another quarter considers themselves moderates religion and politics are not separate here either this is a place with religious conservatism where gays need to pray the gay away and where evolution is evolution the whole politics religion race thing is so deep and troubling here that it would take a whole video to talk about it but the cliff's notes version is mississippi had the most lynchings of any other state and had the most resistance civil rights the confederate symbol was just removed from the state flag like five months ago but of course you're gonna see tons of people flying the original flag all over the state saying they want to preserve their heritage segregation was outlawed ages ago but it's still a thing here not officially a thing but the white folks go to the white churches and the black folks go to the black churches there are many many white and black folks who hang out together and are friendly and even cry at each other's funerals but deep down it's like water and oil here in many parts they just kind of don't blend in at a deeper level the racial divide here is so normalized and there's such a long history of segregation in mississippi that it's hard to even recognize it as being purposeful today i mean in 2011 they did a poll and nearly half the state said interracial marriage should be illegal and that is just sad vicksburg is also here in this part of the state right here along the mississippi river there's a lot of civil war history here it's not a very exciting place nor are there a ton of jobs but there's a lot of antebellum homes here and it's really pretty in some parts as we leave the capital region we come to the south central part of the state which is where you have a lot of the traditional old south there's a lot of pine trees a lot of rednecks and trailer parks there's a lot of small towns tucked way back in the woods that you would likely never see if you moved here most folks down here keep to themselves they fly their flags and are out there making moonshine but there's a handful of places that have a lot going on in this part of the state take hattiesburg for instance hattiesburg's a neat little culturally diverse town that's pretty liberal from mississippi there's a good mix of retirees and young liberal college kids i mean this is where the university of southern mississippi is hattiesburg has an active nightlife they have festivals and arts and music a home here is only about 180k on average so get in on that people the west and north sides are better than the south and east sides of town those parts can be kind of bad but overall a neat little place hattiesburg is there's only about 46 000 people natchez is also a place with a lot of stimulation it's way over here right along the mississippi there's a lot of bars here that stay open late and they too have a lot of festivals and events it has a new orleans influence and it has sort of a tourist destination if that's your thing it too has a lot of older antebellum homes and a rich history the hispanic population is 10 in this part of the state making it the most hispanic part of mississippi and good news people they'll pay you six thousand dollars to move here and homes are only 168k on average so it would be super cheap to live here in natchez so come enjoy the food because they have some good food here of course food wise it's going to be a lot of soul food in mississippi they love their cajun and creole food and seafood's a big deal there's a lot of farm-raised catfish crawdad boils barbecue hush puppies and sweet tea along with wild game thieves because as you might expect hunting is a thing in mississippi they'll shoot at deer turkey quail duck bear squirrel beaver coyotes fox skunks wild hogs and even gator hunting such a big deal here that you'll see people wearing hunting caps to church or camo in their own damn weddings but again lots of southwest mississippi is going to be very poor in many towns out this way one in three people lives in poverty pretty much the whole western side of the state is all really poor all the way down to the louisiana border and finally we come to the coastal region of mississippi now this part of the state is way different than the rest of the state it's a lot more laid back down here close to the coast and people are more progressive and wealthy it's not nearly as religious and you won't see nearly as many confederate flags flying it's also much safer down here you could say southern mississippi and northern mississippi are two different states this coast has a pretty vibrant culture fed by new orleans and mobile there's a lot of military here too which adds to the diversity however while mississippi has 44 miles of coastline the beaches here are not very nice there's some pretty white sand but the water's warm and brown and often downright nasty there's not a lot of surfing waves here bro in terms of where you can live there's a lot of options and many really cool pascagoula has 21 000 people and a lot of crime and it's probably one of the least desirable places to live along the mississippi coast but there are some blue collar jobs here stuff like ship building and you're really close to florida that's your thing and a home here is less than 100k on average right here along the coast but it's cheap for a reason folks it's not terrible here but it's not amazing or anything gaucher a few miles away is a nicer place to live over here is ocean springs home to 17 000 people this is a vibrant artsy community with a cool downtown area and lots of festivals not a bad place to live at all and homes here about double that in pascagoula if that says anything north of biloxi is deibreville which is the second fastest growing city in all of mississippi there's only 10 000 people here but words out homes here are also about 200k it's a pretty nice place to live biloxi is right here along the coast this is the most dangerous city in the whole state outside of jackson when you measure robberies and shootings per capita so it's far less charming here than some of the other coastal communities but it's the vibrant and cultural hub of the coast i mean this is home to the original mardi gras there's casinos here too but it's kind of run down and dumpy in many parts sadly a home here is about 170k gulfport's the biggest city down here and mississippi's second largest city where there's 70 000 people and growing slightly it's a little less run down than biloxi is it's more of a place for retirees or young people it's not really a family-friendly sort of place it's cheaper than most of the other places along the coast homes here in the 155k ish range other nice places you can live down here are bay st louis long beach and past christian they range from between 6 000 and 15 000 people cute little cities that are family friendly and safe and where there's good schools and you can get a home in any of these cool little mississippi coastal communities for like 200k on average i'm telling you there's some neat little hidden gems here along the mississippi coast some say parts of mississippi like this are the best kept secret around shh in the words of william faulkner to understand the world you must first understand a place like mississippi it's a very deep strange complicated place with an ugly past which influences the culture and way of life still to this day it's a poor place and they have issues here that they may never solve but most people here are proud and generous they're hard-working they're very warm and kind and most folks here don't let the racial divide or the poverty define them a lot of mississippians have adopted a whatever may come will come mentality you kind of just have to be from here to understand living here this is just an honest authentic place where people just are them they're not trying to be anything different and they don't want you and i to try to change them either you got to admire that sure there's lots of problems here but there's no problem in mississippi that's not present in every state in america and every country in the world they're just magnified here and mississippi's bad at hiding them mississippi what a pity it's a state with so much love and hope for everyone mississippi what a pity that a place like this can be so sad for anyone so you should come enjoy the view there's a place right here for you they have the faith that they'll get on through one day at a time one day at a time one day well i am from a town where everybody knew me by name i could be all alone and they would come and they would ask me to play [Music] we all knew god and we were all the same there was no reason to be ashamed we're not really bad we just need a plan we're mississippi [Music] we all knew god and we were all the same there was no reason to be ashamed we're not really bad we just need a plan we're mississippi we're mississippi [Music] thanks to lisa at 601 travels for letting me use her awesome video footage in mississippi you should subscribe to her she has a super cool channel and does videos on a lot more than just mississippi thanks lisa you rock and thanks to marina over at the piano keys who played one of those last songs for me she's a professional musician and a music teacher too she's really good at playing the piano and she can give you lessons so hit her up too hey guys if you learned something new about america or what it's like to live in america great you should think about subscribing and turning on your notifications you can also click one of these videos or playlists for more you can also now buy my songs on itunes and other formats click the link in the description thanks for watching and remember while we all might have different views we should all be nice to each other and try to make the usa better place in a positive way this is sage nyx manager this has been a corner house entertainment production and are you looking to move and need advice i do consulting that's right i'll sit down and talk about where the next perfect place for you and your family should be i do it all the time together let's find you a new home that's safe and checks all your boxes you can get my email in the description to find out how i can help you find your perfect relocation i'm actually in gulfport right now gulfport mississippi which is right on here on the coast and i stay here with my boyfriend and then i'm in nursing school too so i stay in pearl river county which is probably about 45 minutes away so yeah the accent is strong it is very strong and he's like i don't know if he'll be able to understand you i was like well we'll see i grew up in poplarville mississippi which is in pearl river county it's real small town i grew up on a farm but i kind of just go everywhere you know in south mississippi everyone just kind of is everywhere so i just i come down here for visiting like to go to the casino go to the beach even though i don't get in the water [Music] it's nasty yeah i have heard that well give me so give people an idea on what it's like down in the on the mississippi coast like kind of the general area there um it's really nice they have a lot of good restaurants a lot of good seafood we do get a lot of tourists but nothing too crazy it's mostly people from like florida or texas louisiana of course because it's right next door um our waters kind of crap to be honest it don't look too good so a lot of people down here will actually go like pensacola and florida if they want to go to the beach if they actually want to get in the water um people can't drive in gulfport i'll tell you that much but other than that people are very nice but it's definitely very different in gulfport from where i grew up even though it's like 45 minutes away like where i live it's more like rednecky and you know a lot of people are more friendly but gulf war they have a lot of those kind of transplants too we have a lot of military bases a lot of people from like california and new york and you know all these different places that are in the military they stay in gulfport on the base so you get you get to meet a lot of new people that aren't from here and i don't think they kind of understand the the gist of what we do down here they don't understand the mississippi culture right exactly exactly or the food so i hear the southern part of mississippi it's way different than anything like hattiesburg north like it's almost like two different cultures about so so last time i drove i've driven all through mississippi and i can tell you right now down here like in the southern part of mississippi i'd say from howtosburg down below because i go to hattiesburg quite frequently and they are a little bit more preppy the farther north you go it gets a little bit more preppy i don't know why that's just how it is and the farther south you go it gets a little bit more humble and more rednecks until you get to jackson jackson's kind of a can i cuss it's kind of a hole in jackson nobody really likes to go there it's kind of it's too much going on they got a little bit of crime going on over there so nobody really goes up there but the culture is definitely different down here and the food definitely tastes different down here than it does if you go farther north like you go to oxford or something so it is different so by preppy you mean like oxford is preppy yeah yeah the closer you get to tennessee the more preppy people are the more probably they act they're not as humble but you gotta think you know up there is a lot of where the rich history is and we they have a lot of people who are very wealthy up there you know that's where like oprah winfrey and stuff grew up whenever they were here we don't have too many people from south now in gulfport we do have a lot of rich people down here we have beautiful beautiful houses down here right on there on the beach but they don't act that way down here it's very different and i've noticed that with how people are very humble here um and they definitely respect people a lot more down here than they do up north and i don't really know quite why that is i think it might be you have people coming in from different places like traveling like from tennessee and all that kind of stuff so so where's the dividing line between preppy and redneck like which city um i'd say hattiesburg and up north is more like preppy and then if you go from like where i live and poplaville down is more redneck but you're not going to find that redneck and gulfport in these big cities like big cities i use that very quickly um in like gulfport or jackson or oxford you're going to find that more where i'm from like and where my mom lives um saying picune or poplarville um where that it was actually funny me and my boyfriend went to visit my mom who lives on what's called walk eye bluff and it's on the river that separates mississippi and louisiana and you'll find a lot of interesting people out there and you know a lot of different we all we do is we they catch fish out there they cook it up we have a good time smoke a little weed drink a little beer you know everybody minds their own business you'll see a lot of confederate flags out there a lot of people with big ol opinions and they don't care but you don't see that too much if you go to like gulfport or like these bigger kind of metro areas yeah which part of the state did you say on the on the far west side where the mississippi river is is that where you said that is yeah okay so would you say it's mostly redneck like between hattiesburg and like the 10 freeway like is that where most of the rednecks are in mississippi like the hunting guys with the confederate flags and all that i'd say that and also a little bit east as well like if you get into loose dale which is over there kind of more east of hattiesburg there's really not too many people over there but they kind of keep to themselves a lot of time they're out there in the woods you know making moonshine they're not really putting themselves out there so if you if you come to mississippi you probably won't come across one because they kind of like to mind their own business yeah yeah but i'm looking at a map by the way i'm listening when you're talking um so what is it like up in the delta area of mississippi i've actually never been there um i would like to go because it is rich so rich in history and i love history but i would i've had friends and family who've been there and there's really not much it's real flat just real lot of good soil people still plant stuff up there from what i've heard but i've never really been over there i really don't have a desire to unless i do go for like learning about the history and stuff so what about the north west up by the memphis metro area do you ever go way up there do you know what it's like up there uh last time i drove to tennessee i we've drove to tennessee probably about three times so i've been through there i don't like memphis up through that area is real for a lack of better word ghetto if i'm being honest uh nobody likes to go through that area nobody um a lot of people kind of take the detour like going towards nashville or pigeon forge and sometimes you have to cut up through alabama to get that way and that's a little bit of a better route especially if you're not used to that kind of i guess ghetto area or that lifestyle that memphis definitely has and definitely a little bit of west mississippi has yeah so like around like south haven um which is on your side um desoto county is that's okay though right oh yeah on the mississippi side of the memphis area what i know a lot of people from south haven they're actually very friendly now they're not like like how my family is they're not like redneck or you know outspoken or things like that they're a little bit more that old southern like charm you know they kind of hold on to that a little bit more than we do down here mm-hmm what other areas hold on to their southern charm in mississippi besides up there hmm i think about that because i have to go through i have to go to the map myself um i'd say people in like down here like when it comes to like bay saint louis or um even in poplarville where i'm from a lot of the people like the older people and the closer you get to bugaloose louisiana because i mean i said i keep talking about louisiana because south mississippi and south louisiana are like pretty much the same a lot of people that are from here that from there and a lot of people from there come here and we're always crossing in between the two so um kind of out towards bogalusa where i'm from a little bit towards in lumberton they really do hold on to that southern charm a little bit as well um and then a little bit towards the north right before you get to jackson kind of like in hattiesburg and in purvis things like that so what what makes jackson such a bad place well last time i went it really wasn't too bad but then again that was when i was probably about 16 so my memory could be a little distraught but i've always heard i haven't been up there as an adult but i've always heard i mean it is crime ridden it does have a lot more crime in jackson than they do i think any other city in the state from what i know and um i'm trying to be pretty pc here it's hard i don't have to be pc you can just say what you want well you know they got a lot of different kinds of people in jackson that not a lot of people are too fond of that like i said a little ghetto a little crime ridden so you kind of have to watch your step when you go to jackson you might get shot at the waffle house let's be honest oh man yeah yeah i hear that uh the west side of jackson is really bad yeah south side yeah that's why people it usually people who say they've been to jackson they just drove right through they're trying to get somewhere else like they're trying to go to tennessee or somewhere else they're just passing right through yeah [Music] so mississippi gets a lot of knocks for being poverty and education and you know that just a lot of the statistics are not good is mississippi improving is it changing at all like since you've been there like i mean what's the vibe there is is it are people optimistic um so what i like and what a lot of people do like is the stereotypes of what people have to say and stuff well factually what you said is you know that our education's really not the best and things like that are true but certain kinds of stereotypes and whatnot people think about aren't necessarily true but we like to think we like to make other people think that they're true so they kind of stay away you know we're not trying to end up like arizona or colorado with all these people flying in from different states so um it's very nice here you know we might not be the richest state but we are also the most giving syste statistically wise and a lot of people think you know we're dumb or this or that we don't have the best education which is fairly true but you know we have a lot of people smart people who do come from here you know a lot of people love oprah winfrey oprah winfrey's from here morgan freeman we're friends a really smart man he comes from here i mean i'm top of my class in nursing school and we have one of the top nursing schools in the whole country here and you know we have amazing universities that are some of the top in the country as well so i think it all just depends on if someone's ever visited here or not or if they have family that's from here then they know those stereotypes aren't necessarily true but um i wish mississippi would kind of grow a little bit and kind of progress because we're kind of living like it's 1817 here a little bit when we first became a state we did have a um a vote on our last ballot last year for medical marijuana which i'm all for you know every most of everybody's all for it well 76 of our population voted for it and it won well the supreme court i think had their own little biases and ended up throwing it out and they said it's because you know we only have four districts instead of five districts and the voting was valid was messed up things like that but i think ultimately it does come down to some of those people that you know because a lot of people down here are religious but we have those old school holy rollers down here you know baptist old school think weed is the devil's lattice so they have their own biases and they have a lot of pull and that's the problem mississippi too there's not many people so there if you're a part of when these well-known families are well-known people we've got a lot of a lot done in this state a lot of pool in this state so i think that's kind of what's keeping us back is you know we have people put you know their beliefs and their religious beliefs and you know their old school ways first before ever thinking about progressing sound yeah what other ways is your state still living like it's 1817 well it's just real old school you know if you go and i actually like it i mean when it comes to like our policies and stuff that we have in place you know especially with the medical marijuana and it being mostly republican down here that's pretty old school but other than that you know actually like the other ways i mean we still have like these old little stores that sell these little trinkets that you haven't seen since the 1800s like those little you know i forget what they're called you know the little so you swift the flower through and things like that you just crank it up you know a lot of people here dress kind of old school they're not real fancy when it comes to things they still look like farmers like my uncle brian he everywhere he goes even to a funeral he's wearing you know john deere overalls you know it's one of those kind of things where people are kind of just stuck in that old southern way but it kind of branches out to our politics and stuff too which necessarily don't bother me unless it personally affects me but you know it is what it is yeah so give an idea for people that are thinking about moving their middle class they want somewhere safe that has pretty good schools which four or five places would you tell people to go to in your state well i guess it really depends on what they like because you know if a city person is moving to mississippi you know we don't have very big cities so i don't think they would technically like it but if so you know gulfport is a pretty good area even though they have some of the worst drivers you'll ever see in your life and you almost die every day um the schools really aren't too bad here and they have do have a little bit of crime but it's nothing that you know sectioning can't fix out you know you have good areas in your bad areas and then you know hattiesburg is really really nice i mean it's beautiful in hattiesburg the only thing is this traffic is ridiculous because you know they only have that one road that gets you from here to there that's it but um hattiesburg is amazing if you're like a medical professional so you get you have the hospital you have all the specialists there you know all that kind of stuff all the doctors offices i got a beautiful campus called usm university of south mississippi um stay away from jackson and all that kind of stuff but those are the two main i guess city areas that i would recommend for but if you're kind of looking to come here for more of like that country lifestyle maybe stay like in poplarville where i'm from or piccoon or loosedale things like that where it's not too many people but they have what you need they might not have a walmart but they have a raymies or greers which are those like home style stores you know that people have and all that kind of stuff but ultimately my thing is is don't come here and like we kind of have the same philosophy here as texas does like don't come here and try to change how we like to live or change how we like to vote and all this kind of stuff you know we're we don't mess with nobody you know everybody likes to talk about us we don't talk about well maybe a little bit on california but you know me like texas louisiana mississippi alabama and that's about it we kind of in florida a little bit we kind of stay to ourselves and we're just kind of in the middle you know so good good for you guys down there so um another thing that people are the racism in mississippi i know it's like a sensitive subject is is it prevalent is it like an undercurrent how is it how are the race relations in mississippi these days i couldn't wait for you to ask me this question so it's so funny to me so my boyfriend is from arizona and his family is from new jersey new york a massachusetts area and things like that and um i've been up there i've been up there once and it was a nightmare and it kind of relates to the racism type thing because here in mississippi a lot of people like to say how racist we are and at that extent like i said with those negative stereotypes we kind of want people to believe it so they'll stay out but truthfully it's not really a thing that exists here and i think and me and my boyfriend were talking about this the other day i think the reason is because mississippi such a small state we only have about three million people throughout the whole state i think last time i checked and everyone that lives here is from here like their families basically from here if you ask anybody they're probably gonna be like yeah my family's always been here you know nine times out of ten there's not many people from different places and we all share the same culture we all eat soul food we all go to baptist church and sometimes catholic depending on if you came from louisiana or not you know things like that we all like to have a farm or grow food or go out and spend money at the casino you know if you if you live on the coast i mean we all share that same culture because we all been here for so long now when we went to when i went to arizona and then when we went to up northeast like in new jersey massachusetts it was a little kind of a culture shock to me because of and we went with you know his grandparents and things like that um and i've noticed that people are not as friendly to minorities as they are here um like over there and those type of places and i never i didn't understand i was kind of shocked by it because you know i was like well you know i'm white so i mean i don't really expect i don't really experience something down here in the south so i was like well i'm like watching that i've never seen anybody be racist somebody down here in south you know i've been on this earth for 23 years in mississippi i've never seen anybody be racist to anybody down here and i go over there for you know a week and i was seeing all these people get called mean names all you know they were calling mexicans this black people this you know asians this i was like what the world like that was the first time i've ever heard anybody be mean or say anything mean about these people and i think what it is is because in places like arizona or new jersey or massachusetts they get a lot more you know i'd say tourism and travel you know that go to those type of places they have people coming from all over the world to come visit those places like salem massachusetts or they want to visit new jersey to go see i guess the statue of liberty or arizona just go see tombstone or phoenix and the grand canyon things like that and i guess they don't really get to see a lot of those kind of people and those kind of cultures that those people bring over so they don't know how to accept it but here in mississippi we live with each other and we all share the same culture so there's really no need to be racist to anybody or be mean to somebody and i feel like now it definitely exists you know where my mother lives my mother isn't racist at all but where she lives there's definitely some questionable people there but you know it's never to somebody's face or blatantly like racism you know like we're gonna do this or do that to you it's never like that but there's definitely still people here that have those feelings but it's not as bad as what people would think i mean you have to really dig to find those people i'm telling you you have to dig so yeah is it more would you say it's more segregated than racist then in a sense that you've got the black folks at church and then you've got the white folks at their church you've got the predominantly black parts town the white parts town they don't really hang out i guess that's just sort of what i've heard is that there's not a racist in your face kind of thing still going on but there's this undercurrent that still exists where they people kind of just deal with the there's a history there that happened it's still lingering but it's not in your face as much but people definitely don't really intermingle as much as they would in other states is that do you see that well i i think it all depends on your personal experience and how you grew up because me personally i grew up you know i grew up on a farm doing you know what most white people probably do back in the day and then when we were building when my mom and my dad were building their house and stuff we stayed in the ghetto in nicholson which is outside of picu and you know we stayed in a trailer park i went to southside elementary school right across from section eight and i loved it and i wouldn't have it any other way because the thing is is it's a little bit i i mean we do have like whites female home we have brown's funeral home we have um you know we have do have black churches and you know white churches and things like that but i don't think there's any aminosity behind it because you know when i was growing up i i didn't i wasn't treated any type of way when i did go to section 8 or when i did go to south side elementary school or when i'd go to martin luther king drive or something like that and to have a few blunts with some of my friends you know there was no am and i can't i'm sorry i can't talk aminosity or anything like that so i guess it's just how you grow up and how you perceive different things but i can see how people would think that because we do have like certain things like a funeral home or a church that is separated by their race but ultimately a black person is more than welcome to come to a predominantly white church like i can walk into one it'd be no problem yeah no i didn't mean that it was the laws or the culture was like you guys can't hang out i just meant like they kind of just don't really it's like oil and water a little bit they get along and they kind of exist together but they don't necessarily is is that accurate yeah a little bit because you wouldn't you really wouldn't see too many white people going into a you know a black church or you know too many white people going to a black people funeral home and vice versa and i don't know if that is because there is some kind of i don't i don't really know i've never seen that before because i've never i've never personally i've never been to a black church nor have i been to a black funeral and that's not personally because you know i have nothing against you know because i don't want to mix it i guess it's just how we're raised down here like they have they what they have we have what we have i mean i don't know i have no idea i don't know how to answer that correctly i guess yeah so are you gonna stick around in mississippi like what what what's the the average 20 year old-ish person that grows up in mississippi are they i'm gonna stick around are they like i'm gonna go explore the country like what what do you and a lot of your friends say about growing up there you know making a life well a lot of people want to leave i have a lot of friends that are like oh i want to go to california or i want to go move a lot of people move to louisiana which is basically louisiana mississippi are almost the same basically you just pay a little bit more taxes and you get paid a little more in louisiana that's about it and or they want to go to tennessee or north carolina and things like that you know they kind of want to stay in you know in the general area usually but not in mississippi but me i would love i like to travel like when we went to arizona like i enjoyed it very much but i definitely could not stay live there it's just very different from what i'm used to but i want to say a mississippi personally because you can't beat the prices down here it's so cheap i mean and then everybody owns something like i'm 23 and already on my own piece of land that was passed down generations ago and that's why you know we have we're so small and everybody knows each other so we all get a little something out of the deal but it's so cheap down here i mean i think the average person makes like 15 an hour mississippi but that works like me i'll be lpn in eight weeks and my boyfriend will be a lineman in less than five months and we'll be starting out together as a household making 90 grand a year that is that is wealthy in mississippi that's triple over the median that's that's plenty of money for down here and that's another reason like why a lot of people end up staying down here it's just so cheap and we have a lot of lands and a lot of trees it's just very hot and very buggy we have a lot of bugs so so where do you live now i live in olive branch mississippi which is it's five minutes from memphis northern part oh good so you run desoto county yep the soda county yeah i live lived in desoto county my whole life i've lived in lived in hernando which is on the other side of the county and now that once i got into my adulthood and i moved out and i'm in my own apartment in olive branch yeah so tell people what it's like in desoto county i hear this actually not a bad spot at all it's not a bad spot really at all i mean if you want to live in northern part desoto county i'd definitely recommend like hernando where i grew up is it's like a really country town redneck it's it i mean it has it has like the backwoods areas where i lived um and they they got they definitely got like five mexican restaurants i love me some mexican me too yeah i like that's what i had for lunch and speaking of mexican and um uh they they have um there's some it's look it's a local ice cream shop it's called velvet cream they definitely check that out and if you visit the center county yeah filler cream all sorts of ice cream and also area 51 it's another it's another ice cream shop they're competitors cream and area 51. so ice cream and mexican food um what about like where the good places is there a bad part of desoto county like i hear where the bad areas up there yeah i'd say um oh certainly like around horn lake around horn lake and around where my mother lives in in south haven um like right along the state line in in south haven that those were where the kind of sketchy ghetto areas are um so i mean i was over at my mother's on um halloween night like this past year and uh oh my goodness that like that like there's like like there's like shootings over just a small argument like on my mother's street i mean i like how witness the police pulling up and like just just walking out with a big old gun and a canine it was i i'd say well probably the ghetto areas are between them the western part of south haven and most of horn lake okay but i've heard so i thought south havens people said it's a really nice place yeah it was south i mean there's parts of south haven i mean like just like oh like the main part of south haven like okay like like the eastern part but there's certain yeah there's that certain neighborhood like right there well there's a certain part but before it meets horn where southaven meets horn like that's the bad part yeah okay do you ever go up way up into the hilly part of the state in the northeast over there by the appalachians and uh hill country over there north way north of tupelo do you ever make your way back up there i have before it's definitely probably like a once or twice a year thing depending on where i decided to travel to i mean last year i went i went down to florida like everyone went through down to tupelo i like it down i like that area what's it like back in those hills up there is it it's it's all it's all back roads country yeah i mean it's it's a it's a lot of woods basically okay what do you do for fun what what's your do you hunt you fish do you i fish yeah i mean i i fish from time to time i mean i i know it sounds weird i lived in mississippi my whole life but i'm never actually hunting well my brother has taught me how to like target target shoot but i've never actually hunt deer and everything but i'm interested in trying it sometime but it's just so something i've never done so i hear north and south mississippi are kind of different cultures yeah i mean you wouldn't you wouldn't think we're in the same state between well it could be basically be divided into like three different categories like there's north mississippi there's the capital central mississippi and then there's southern mississippi or biloxi but yeah i mean central mississippi i mean it's it's more that's probably where most of like the like the ghetto is and well we're like jackson i mean i i have family from the jackson area so that that's that's more like yeah like ghetto and it's and probably where most of like the liberals are and all that but and most of mississippi is like hardcore conservative but probably like one of the probably maybe two blue dots in the state is probably like in hinds county in jackson mm-hmm hinds county which where's that which city jackson mississippi oh okay so the two blue dots would be jackson and where else yeah i i don't i mean i i i know hinds county is one of them i thought there was like one more i forgot the other one along where i live i mean i know we're we're mainly red desoto county but it's on the board of memphis so it it can be purple yeah yeah you're gonna have that memphis spillover stuff going on yeah so most americans think of mississippi as the stereotypes that you hear all the time is it like that really it doesn't i mean um no we're not kissing cousin um and um i mean it's kind of 50 i mean yes you mean you're gonna come i mean we definitely because we like our fried foods i mean we you're gonna see like a lot more overweight people i mean i'm overweight but um you're gonna see a lot more of overweight people overall i mean yeah i mean there's certain parts of the state and where it it's not really like that probably in the southern part but up i feel like between the capital and north i mean yeah kind of i mean we're i think i don't know i think we're 50 yeah number 50 as far as like overweight yeah um is it still racist down there yeah i mean it's especially around the around this area in north mississippi i mean it's still very very mixed race i mean it's but basically you can look at it like alabama's evil backwards evil twin i mean it's it's as far as like the race goes i mean it's it's very much like probably like the racist state the most racist state why is that you know i'm i'm not i'm not sure why why is that um okay that's fair yeah yeah i i honestly have no idea but they they're just all in mississippi i mean it's just especially the northern part i'm i'm not on that one are you gonna live there the rest of your life you know i i've wanted to relocate here for a while because i've lived here my whole life so i was interested in like east tennessee and and i i definitely enjoyed kentucky driving through there i'm i'm not sure but maybe within the next couple years i'd like to relocate to another state okay so you're not gonna stick around forever no this this is where i grew up i mean i've been here since i was born in memphis raised in north mississippi and i've been in the same area so i'm ready to go somewhere else i mean i'm 24 now it's it's time to try some somewhere else how's the state changing do you know how's the state changing yeah like are you trying to do new laws or people moving in from other states changing the culture is it not changing at all um it let me think um i mean it hasn't really changed like that that mobile but besides when the code pandemic hit i mean it it changed it changed big time for quite a few months but then after that i mean the governor released all restrictions i mean and then there was no nothing really different i mean as far as like loss i mean and well in this past election i mean they legalized medical marijuana so yeah well they but they turned it down right oh no no they they they they and no they accepted that they legalized it marijuana yeah medical marijuana okay yeah well it sounds like you you enjoy your state what what do you love the most about mississippi oh good it stays warm down here and it just i i i've always enjoyed like the just the country vibe and and all that stuff and it's a good job i mean well of course mississippi is definitely not ranked for like a good job place but i i have a good job that's the main thing that's keeping me here so far what do you not like about mississippi oh what do i not like about it how hard i mean well i mean i one big thing i like about it is because it stays warm and one thing i don't like about it is because it it stays very humid the mosquitoes mosquitoes are always evil during the most evil creature during the summer there's that and um that's that's about that's about like the main the main negative things i could think about right right off the back as far as what happened mississippi what what did people uh what kind of music do people in mississippi listen to in your part of the hood country country country it's country music all right yeah it's it's mainly country including myself i like listen to country but and not i'll also listen to them just and yeah classic and pop and all that but it's mainly country what kind of what what kind of food um you said mexican food but like what's the traditional mississippi diet gonna be catfish hush puppies fried chicken anything fried fried okra fried ochre is very very famous in most most local gas station stores they'll sell fried okra yeah i actually used to grow okra and i hated it but when i would bake it not fry it to there was a certain point when you put enough salt on it um if you didn't overcook it you didn't undercook it that was like a perfect okra cooking time that i actually did like it but if it wasn't cooked right i couldn't stand it oh yeah yeah i was like i've never actually cooked cooked okra i've always gotten it at like a local restaurant like colton's or and uh and of course like a local gas station anytime anytime i'll stop i mean i'll pick up some fried okra something like that and uh boil peanuts boiled peanuts yeah we got some of those in south carolina a couple times man maybe we just went to the wrong place but it didn't taste very good it was they were like soggy they tasted like i was eating the paper bag itself oh my goodness yeah i love bowl peanuts i mean it's just something i mean i i get them from the local walmart they have them i just you know i've eaten them in the microwave and they're they're so good good good for a bedtime snack yeah cool well i do love hush puppies i gotta actually now i'm craving some hush puppies yeah for mike's barbecue max bbq well thanks man i appreciate you uh hopping on and telling people about about your state oh no problem no problem i'm a big fan of your channel i've been watching it for a couple years i mean traveling's my passion then that's what got me on to um yeah you and uh world according to briggs yeah he's cool we talk sometimes i think he actually might be from mississippi yeah i remember in one of his videos that his mom was from mississippi like yeah i think yeah it's the central part he said he knew a lot about it yeah uh sorry i've interviewed him for a video before we talk probably every couple weeks about youtube stuff he's pretty cool yeah um but yeah um i appreciate you you know it's nice to meet you and yeah nice to meet you nick keep in touch and thanks for watching the videos you know i try to just tell it how it is you know people really like like to hear the truth but some people don't yeah i know so they just want it all sugar coated but they just just give them what to expect when you come here yeah that's right so but the stereotype of mississippi you know them you've heard them many many times is mississippi changing at all are they trying to change are you concerned do you care are you going to live there like what's your i actually graduate in december i graduate college and i'm actually moving to minneapolis uh i have a few my girlfriend she has a job up there um that she starts in january so we're pretty excited to get out of here but um i think mississippi will take a step forward and then it will take two steps back um so you have something that they they you get like a major win like we just started doing lottery here um well that was crazy like nobody would ever you know the lottery was crazy to get and then we changed our flag too that was really crazy um but then we'll take two steps back and they'll be like they'll implement some more like restrictive policies on voting or you know stuff like that and it kind of just like it's just kind of like this teeter-totter where you gain something and then you lose another thing so it's it's it's it's rough but i think in about 20 30 years maybe you might have some people looking at mississippi a different way i know google they're setting up a data center in south haven that's going to create a good bit of jobs and then netflix has some investments they're going to put into him to mississippi since we got this flag changed so that's really nice um but a lot of times mississippi is very like reserved and we don't uh we don't like to accept help from anybody i feel a lot of especially the older folk um so they'll get they'll see google coming in here setting up a data center and they'll protest about that data center saying you know we don't need it you know we don't we can do this by ourselves we don't need google here to create these jobs you know we'll create them ourselves but it'll never happen no um so they'll protest these nice good paying jobs and you know in favor of logging and catfishing and stuff you know it's crazy so i think the more those people kind of go away the more we'll have a good change in the state but you're leaving though i am leaving yeah i wish i could be here to see it but you know i graduate college and i can't make i'm a marketing student um and i can tell you right now the best marketing job i can probably get in the state would be uh somewhere in jackson and at the most i probably make about 30 grand um you know and that's like it's a that's an okay amount to live here but it's nowhere where i want to be um so i want to get out and i want to get to a bigger city where i can make a little bit more money so i wish i could see see it succeed but i don't want to be here you know if i was maybe at a different time i'd be here but not right now what are most people your age what's their plan so most people my age they plan on going to florida or texas those are the really the big ones to go to now um a lot of people move into tampa uh you know the panhandle area and then of course you have austin dallas and houston those are big draws as well um so a lot of people you can't find a good job here um i've there's so many stories of people like nice jobs you know accountants stuff people that you know software engineers things that people you know are hiring a lot of and you'll apply to jobs in mississippi and then they'll get the interview going and they'll look at you like crazy like you have no experience what are you doing here and they'll move to a big city like you know austin or dallas and they'll get a job two days you know it's crazy and so that's a lot of people see that and you know mississippi i think has one of the highest brain drains of any state in the country um and that's a big problem too so is racism a big deal down there still i'm hearing mixed uh results from you know talking with folks and googling around and watching movies and reading about it it kind of seems like it's it's there but it's not there it's yeah it's i think it really just depends on where you are in this state um down towards where i am now the hattiesburg the coastal area it's not really that big of a deal um you know people in mississippi we kind of just like um we don't have segregation here obviously it's been outlawed of course but we still segregate ourselves in like weird psychological ways you know like i remember i have at the apartment that i live in right now um during the day a lot of white people use the pool but at night time a lot of black people use the pool so we kind of just segregate ourselves not because we want to just because it's just like something we do and so we don't really have a lot of race issues down here but when you get towards jackson where a lot of people like work together and you know those kind of cultures clash that's when you see a lot more of it so anything jackson and up north like towards the hills region of mississippi that's kind of where racism gets a little bit uh a lot more you know you can see it a lot more but really the delta that's really only one race that lives there a lot uh and then everything in the coast everybody kind of just like chills out not really much going down here so we're all pretty chill down here well it's too bad that you're leaving i mean you know you've got a good head in your shoulders you know you're smart kid and uh mississippi's losing losing folks like you um that are just going to take off because there's just not a lot of opportunities if there were jobs would you stay if they could have a good life if there were good paying jobs and i know my future kids could get a good education and a good quality of life in the state then i would absolutely say i would absolutely stay and i would try to change it i mean i'd probably run for office or whatever i really like the idea of that um but as of right now where it stands i'd you know i don't think i could i could have my kid here you know because i just i know i went to a private school my whole entire life uh i graduated i did graduate from brandon high school i went to women's public school about two years to get a diploma at brandon high school but i went to private school and even then the schools are terrible um we rank like i think 48th uh being generous on that list for education and it's just really bad uh you know it's just it's a tough it's tough and i don't see you know i couldn't see my kids uh going to school here and having a good life so i'd rather move away and set them up for success later on is it just lack of funding what makes the school so bad i don't know if it's lack of funding or um it might be a combination of lack of funding and just like bad teachers we have mississippi actually has some of the toughest requirements to be a teacher in the country and that kind of drops off a lot of would-be teachers from teaching here so what they'll end up doing is they'll kind of get an education here and they'll go leap to other states and work there just because the pay here is so s like i mean it's abysmal um and then like 25 grand for to be a teacher it might be that it it's probably closer to like 26 or 27 um but we have super low property rates here too everything's so cheap so that doesn't help with you know since schools are funded on property taxes it's very you know it's hard to fund these schools properly and mississippi is a very low tax state so even the property taxes here are like you know 0.001 you know it's crazy low so i'm sure that doesn't help at all either why would they make it so hard to become a teacher when they need good teachers i could not tell you could not tell you i my stepmom is actually a teacher at brandon high school and she had to go she had to jump through multiple hurdles and it was like one of the toughest she had to pass like an interesting interesting scam and this entrance exam was you know super tough compared to other states and i don't know why they do what they do um it's nonsense to me but it is how it is and that's you know a big problem too it goes back to what you're saying about how the state will do one good thing and then yeah do one bad thing like they get stuff figured out over here but they're still is that just the culture in that state like we we don't want to do things the way that it's proven to do well we're just going to do it our way and or is our corruption like what what's going on i don't think there's any corruption there might be a little bit corruption but i think for the most part um people they they want things to just never change they want things to stay the same and so when things change there's a big negative reaction to that and they want things to be you know to go back to where they were so they'll make you know two new laws up that say you know you can't do this for example with the medical marijuana thing that we passed in november it was huge it's passed by like 78 it was a massive success um and it was going to be written to the state's constitution that we could you could legally buy medical marijuana and if a doctor owed you a prescription you were good to go and the supreme court of mississippi it was led by a voter initiative so we got signatures i remember signing up for it they got signatures everything like that and we all voted on it and the supreme court looked at that and they said this is crazy you know we're not gonna do this and so they dismissed it on the basis that our um voter how we gathered signatures was outdated and so anything that was brought up from that point on would be automatically thrown out so now in mississippi as of right now citizens can't even change the owned laws in this state that has to be done through the legislation we can't you know create a ballot initiative or do anything because there's a very specific requirements to get signatures in this state and the supreme court said no that's outdated can't do that anymore so we have no way of creating ballot initiatives anymore and that's a you know like i said it's one step forward two steps back and it's just because people want things in the state to say the exact same forever well then they're not gonna get better that way then huh yeah they're not uh it's gonna be a rough ride for them and i'm hoping that one day somebody comes along and can make three steps forward and maybe you know two backwards and we might be able to make some progress there but as of right now i just don't see it happening

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Length: 74min 55sec (4495 seconds)

Published: Tue Jun 15 2021