Mississippi is the poorest state in the US, with 24.1 % or 695,915 of its citizens living below the poverty line. It also ranks last in its rate of child poverty (33.7%), and subsequently last in hunger and food insecurity. The South needs to examine its history, if they want to continue to be prosperous. For a hundred years after the Civil War, the south was a third world country. American business was loathe to make investments in the old Confederacy because of lynching's, segregation, and the anti-evolution laws prevalent in the South. It was only after the Civil Rights movement of the sixties that business was ready to invest in the South. If this southern religious crusade against gay people
Mississippi is the poorest state in the US, with 24.1 % or 695,915 of its citizens living below the poverty line. It also ranks last in its rate of child poverty (33.7%), and subsequently last in hunger and food insecurity. The South needs to examine its history, if they want to continue to be prosperous. For a hundred years after the Civil War, the south was a third world country. American business was loathe to make investments in the old Confederacy because of lynching's, segregation, and the anti-evolution laws prevalent in the South. It was only after the Civil Rights movement of the sixties that business was ready to invest in the South. If this southern religious crusade against gay people