The difference between the coast and Central MS is so striking that it can't be ignored. Was it that the coast never really lost jobs like the others did (probably), education, much less drug trafficking, what? Also, while I wouldn't call them integrated, there's much more of a lack of "the ghetto" than elsewhere (though they sadly are making up ground in some spots, and Moss Point seems as bad as anywhere).
Probably not a coincidence that you see very few, if any, segregation private schools on the coast.
They always had them. They just called them Catholic school.
Demographically you aren’t wrong, but most of them were true Catholic Schools founded before the Civil War.
How does diversity create economic strength ? Unless you consider outside investment diversity ? Outside economic factors such as interest rates, inflation, unemployment and primarily domestic manufacturing -not off shoring jobs , creates economic strength.
Well a preacher started it so there is that **
Diversity for the sake of claiming diversity is largely worthless.
What has been so beneficial for the US, and we are getting farther and farther away from it, is the idea of E pluribus unum.
Name these towns which you have noticed are nicer. I'd like to see the research.
Look at the towns who work really hard at creating good public schools. Tupelo, Clinton, Oak Grove, Ocean Springs. They are doing really well. Towns that don’t put the effort and have two tiers of schools - schools founded as segregation schools and public schools aren't going to be attractive to outside companies who want to set up shop. Those towns are withering and dying.
I don’t know what your experience is with the coast, but it’s different than mine. I grew up a few blocks away from seuer city in Gulfport and disagree about the lack of ghetto’s. Pronounced ‘sewer’ city proudly by the locals, where prostitutes and drug dealers would operate in public. The ghettos are there but are small and stick to their boundaries. Most of the older folks in seuer city wouldn’t dare cross 22nd street, but me and the kids my age on both sides use to hang out and cross over a lot. Made some good friends in those days.
I know very little about Demopolis and Thomasville other than their location.
Schools are only as good as the citizens who send their kids there. Good or bad schools are not a reason towns are good or bad, they are a result of it.
Jackson Metro and Desoto County i.e. Memphis are solid employers. Golden Triangle, Tupelo and the Hattiesburg areas are as well, as far as smaller areas.
The Golden Triangle????
A good many of them may have started that way, but none still exist in that posture.
I guess I didn’t include the specifics about shipbuilding industry. A federally backed multibillion dollar industry that will never dry up as long as the country exists. That can’t exist anywhere else in the state and it’s not leaving so the coast will always be a draw.
Of course the Coast is great. No one is stealing that industry. The first thing that needs to go is this competition and status contest between different areas of MS. And I see that now.....a couple folks talking about the ghettos in Gulfport and Moss Point, who obviously don't know what a true ghetto is.
Diversity is over-rated. Are Honda and Kia successful because they're diverse? The market, and choices consumers make, allows for improvements and innovations. I suppose you can say a diverse group of Europeans helped America became a great power and a superpower but that's typically not what "diverse" means. America won WWII with a segregated military. That doesn't mean diversity is always bad. Intellectual diversity seems to be what's most important rather than carefully arranged sets of genitalia and melanin to satisfy some diversity standard. Africa is diverse and so is the Middle East. China is about 98% Han Chinese. Who has had the greatest economic advancements and increased standard of living for their people?
New Orleans is diverse. Sending your kids to most of those public schools that are diverse is a bad idea.
not sure this is true. law/order, christian morals/work ethic, and credit/financial is what makes this country an economic powerhouse
