Mississippi

Mississippi is the 32nt maist extensive an 32nt maist populous o the 50 Unitit States. It is mairchit bi Tennessee tae the north, Alabama tae the east, the Gulf of Mexico an Louisiana tae the sooth, an Arkansas an Louisiana tae the wast. The state's wastren boundary is lairgely defined bi the Mississippi River. Jackson, wi a population o approximately 175,000 fowk, is baith the state's caipital an lairgest ceety.

Mississippi state seembols
The Banner o Mississippi
The Seal o Mississippi
Ainimal an Plant insignia
Bird(s)	Northren mockingbird (Mimus polyglottos)
Butterflee	Spicebush swallowtail (Papilio troilus)
Fish	Largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides)
Flouer(s)	Magnolia
Insect	Wastren honey bee (Apis mellifera)
Mammal(s)	White-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus)
Reptile	American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis)
Tree	Southern magnolia (Magnolia grandiflora)
Inanimate insignia
Beverage	Milk
Colours	reid an blue
Dance	Clogging
Fuid	Sweet potato
Gemstane	Emerald
Mineral	Gowd
Motto	Virtute et armis
Rock	Granite
Shell	Eastern oyster (Crassostrea virginica)
Slogan(s)	First Flight (unoffeecial)
Sang(s)	"Go, Mississippi"
Route merker(s)
State Quarter
Released in 2002
Leets o Unitit States state seembols

The state is hivily forestit ootside the Mississippi Delta aurie, that is the aurie atween the Mississippi an Yazoo rivers. Afore the American Ceevil War, maist development in the state wis alang riverfronts, as the watterweys wae creetical for transportation. Lairge gangs o sclaves war uised tae wirk on cotton plantations. Efter the war, freedmen begoud tae clear the bottomlands tae the interior, in the process sellin aff timmer an buyin property. Bi the end o the 19t century, African Americans made up twa-thirds o the Delta's property awners, but timmer an railwey companies acquired muckle o the laund efter the financial creesis, that occurred whan blacks war facin increasin racial discrimination an disfranchisement in the state.

Clearin o the laund for plantations altered the Delta's ecology, increasin the severity o fluidin alang the Mississippi bi takkin oot trees an bushes that haed absorbed excess watters. Muckle laund is nou held bi agribusinesses. A lairgely rural state wi agricultural auries dominatit bi industrial farms, Mississippi is ranked law or last amang the states in sic meisurs as heal, eddicational attainment, an median hoosehaud income. The state's catfish aquacultur farms produce the majority o farm-raised catfish consumed in the Unitit States.

Syne the 1930s an the Great Migration o African Americans tae the North an Wast, the majority o Mississippi's population haes been white, awtho the state still haes the heichest percentage o black residents o ony U.S. state. Frae the early 19t century tae the 1930s, its residents war majority black, an afore the American Ceevil War that population wis componed lairgely o African-American sclaves. Democratic Party whites reteened poleetical pouer throu disfranchisement an Jim Crow laws. In the first hauf o the 20t century, nearly 400,000 rural blacks left the state for wirk an opportunities in northren an midwastren ceeties, wi anither wave o migration aroond Warld War II tae Wast Coast ceeties. In the early 1960s, Mississippi wis the puirest state in the naition, wi 86% o its non-whites livin ablo the poverty level.

In 2010, 37% o Mississippians war African Americans, the heichest percentage o African Americans in ony U.S. state. Syne regainin enforcement o their votin richts in the late 1960s, maist African Americans hae supportit Democratic candidates in local, state an naitional elections. Conservative whites hae shiftit tae the Republican Pairty. African Americans are a majority in mony coonties o the Mississippi-Yazoo Delta, an aurie o historic sclave settlement in the plantation era.

State govrenment

• Mississippi state govrenment wabsteid