Mississippi from the Inside Out
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Who Are We?
There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to
be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.
-- John Adams
Copyright 2000-2009. Bay Israel Chitrikar Keller Iglesias . All rights reserved.
Mississippi From the Inside Out
What one must understand about Mississippi, is that Mississippi is a little bitty town.
A pretty little town, but a little bitty town nonetheless.
When I moved to the pre-civil rights South in 1961, the population of Mississippi was three million folks. Forty years later, it has three million folks.
It is only three hours across and five hours from top to bottom.
I probably went out with maybe 10 guys in my whole life, all but one of them in Mississippi, and yet I’ve been out with the Athletic Director for Ole Miss, the first Mississippian to sign to professional baseball as a first round draft pick out of high school, and married the captain of Mississippi State’s football team. Greg Harkins and I spit watermelon seeds at one another in college.
My high school graduation party was held on former governor William Winter ’s farm, my husband bought the dental office of Don Newcomb, who founded the Mc Allister’s Deli chain, Byron De Lay Beckwith came by the ranch selling something. It's hard not to know lots of folks.
Half of Mississippi is pink, the other half brown. Mississippi’s growth rate is explained in no small part by the fact that soon Brown Mississippians will be the majority of the electorate. The Brownies left for lack of opportunity, the Pinks are afraid to move in great numbers to a state that will soon be New Africa.
Mississippi is a lovely place, greatly blessed with lush natural beauty and mannerly people. The old stereotypes about bigotry and meanness, are just that, stereotypes. Caricatures. Whatever.
If you would like to contribute, bienvenue! C ’est bon! The New South is inclusive.
- Grenada Project/ John Rundle High School 1967/ Integration following Freedom Summer
- Vicksburg
- Natchez
- The Yankee Perspective
- Philadelphia
- The Choctaw
- Neshoba County Fair
- Blues and the Delta....the beginning of Rock and Roll !
- The Nipponese Invasion
Anyone who would like to contribute to the above categories, or who has interesting info on Mississippi, you can publish to youtube.com, and link to our videos.
Other Mississippi persons we’re hoping to get interviews with can be found at Assignment Desk.
So you want to be a star? If you fancy yourself a Mississippi singer, or are a band that wants free exposure, enter the Mississippi MusiKamp contest, and write and/or record the Mississippi song for Tia!
Grand prix!
$ 500 to to the winner who does best audio and/or video for
MusiKamp's Go Mississippi songs!
- Go Mississippi! White Sheets and Matches
- South Shall Rise Again
- Mississippi is a Little Bitty Town
- Flight School
