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Modern Mississippi

Chapters 10-11

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MS state flag, seal and Coat of Arms

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Modern Mississippi Statistics

• As of the year 2000, MS had a population of

2,844,658.

• The largest city in MS is Jackson.
• 51.2% of Mississippi's population is rural.
• It is common for MS cities to annex neighboring land

as population increases.

• Population is concentrated in two major, five minor,

and two mini areas.

• These nine areas contain 70% of the entire MS

population.

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Population Distribution

• Two major = (30% of the Total Population)

– Jackson Metro area – Gulf Coast

• Five minor =

– Tupelo/Golden Triangle area – Hattiesburg/Laurel area – Memphis Sphere – The Delta – Meridian

• Two Mini =

– McComb-Brookhaven – Natchez

• Net Migration = the difference between the number
• f persons that leave an area and the number of

persons that move into an area

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Population Concentration Areas (2000)

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County Population (2000)

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MS Counties

• MS has 82 counties.
• Each county has a county seat (administrative

center for a county )

• Hinds County is the most populated country in

MS (249,012 ), followed by Harrison county (171,875 ).

• Harrison county is named after President

William Henry Harrison.

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Mississippi’s 82 counties

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MS Interstate Highways

• MS has fourteen main U.S. Routes
• Mississippi is served by eight interstate

highways:

– Interstate 10, Interstate 20, Interstate 22, Interstate 55, Interstate 59, Interstate 69 Interstate 110, Interstate 220

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Mississippi People

• Many different ethnic groups live in Mississippi.
• 2000 census population figures:

– Caucasians = 61.4% – African Americans = 36.3% – Latino/Hispanic = 1.4% – Asian decent = .7% – Native Americans = .4%

• Many different cultural groups are celebrated in MS.

– Scottish Highland games - German Oktoberfest -Neshoba County Fair - Chinese New Year - Cinco De Mayo - Mardi Gras.

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Caber tossing at the highland games Choctaw girl at the Neshoba county fair Mardi Gras

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The Choctaw today

• The largest Choctaw community in MS is in Pearl

River.

• Choctaw are able to balance modern culture with

their own.

• Children attend both tribal and public schools.
• Gaming (casinos) is the major business of the

Choctaw today.

• Traditional Choctaw culture includes:

– basket weaving, stickball, and tribal songs.

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Mississippi’s Asian Culture

• The Chinese came to the MS Delta region around

1870.

• They came in as sharecroppers, but quickly changed
• ver to service industry jobs (grocery stores)
• The first Vietnamese came to MS in the late 1970’s

and early 1980’s.

• Because most were fisherman in Vietnam, they

settled along the Gulf Coast region.

• Half of the Vietnamese population in MS lives in

Biloxi.

• In MS there also many Asian Indians, Filipinos,

Koreans, and Japanese.

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all-Chinese school in Bolivar County, Mississippi, 1938

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Hispanics (Latinos) in MS

• Since 1990, the largest population growth in

Mississippi has been made by Hispanics (Latinos).

• Many Latinos may be undocumented workers

and their numbers are difficult to determine.

• Most are of Mexican decent.

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Language and Religion in MS

• Most Mississippians speak English.
• Only about 6% of households speak a

different language.

• 70% of all Mississippians are Baptist.
• Methodist, Catholics, and Presbyterians are

the next largest denominations in the state.

• Christianity has played a large role in the

development of the state.

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MS Economics

• Economics is divided into 3 sectors:

– Primary (Agribusiness)

• Agriculture, fishing, forestry, and mining

– Secondary (manufacturing)

• Shipbuilding, furniture making, etc.

– Tertiary (service industry)

• Providing services to people or businesses.

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Agribusiness

• Agribusiness deals with the extraction (removal) of

resources directly form the earth.

• 5% of the MS workforce is currently engaged in

Agribusiness.

• In the past this number was much higher.

(1950 = 40%)

• The number of farms are also declining.

– 1940 = 400,000 farms – 2000 = 43,000 farms

• The Delta is the major farming region of MS.
• The largest crop in Mississippi is cotton.

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Kudzu

Kudzu proved effective in preventing soil erosion, but its rapid and uncontrolled growth caused other problems.

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Catfish Farming

• Catfish farming is a relatively new and

growing business in Mississippi.

• MS is the #1 catfish producer in the U.S. (75%
• f all Catfish in U.S. come from MS)
• 80% of MS catfish are raised in the delta.
• The Delta is a good location for catfish farms

because the soil there holds water well.

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MS catfish farms

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Catfish industry in Mississippi

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Lumber Industry

• Between 1880 & 1930 MS became one of the nation’s largest

lumber-producing states

• The growth of towns in the Piney Woods was greatly affected

by the lumber industry.

• By 1930 the Piney Woods were gone and replanting occurred.
• Lumber and wood industry is still an important part of the

state’s economy.

– Timber harvesting = $1.1 billion a year – Lumber and wood products = $2.6 billion a year – Paper products = $1.7 billion a year

• A little more than half of the land in MS is forested.

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Mining in MS

• Mississippi is an important producer of oil and

gas.

• Many oil wells in the state have been capped
• ff because they have become unprofitable.
• The state also has thick deposits of gravel and

clay.

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Industry (manufacturing) in MS

• Early industry in MS consisted only of lumber and cotton seed
• il production
• Balancing Agriculture With Industry (BAWI) was created by
• Gov. Hugh L. White in 1936 to attract outside Industry to MS

– Offered tax exemptions to factories – Leasing of new buildings – Low labor wages

• Ingalls Shipbuilding was the biggest industry that came to MS

through BAWI.

• Other industries that were created were:

– Camp Shelby came to Hattiesburg – Keesler Air Force Base came to Biloxi

• Population booms followed

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Industry (manufacturing) in MS

• 29% of the workforce in MS is engaged in Manufacturing or

construction.

• Manufacturing is split into two sections

– Durable goods (goods that can be use for along time - ex: furniture, fixtures, cars and equipment) – Nondurable goods (used up in the short run – ex: food, clothing and chemicals)

• Mississippi’s largest industrial employer is in the area of

shipbuilding.

• Ingalls Shipbuilding of Pascagoula, a subsidiary of Northrop

Grumman, produces, designs, and overhauls ships and commercial maritime structures.

• Ingalls is the largest manufacturing company in MS,

employing more than 11,000 workers in 2000.

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• Ingalls Shipyard’s

first launch, and the world’s first all-welded ship, was the Exchequer, 1940

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Northrop Grumman (Ingalls) in Pascagoula

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Northrop Grumman (Ingalls) in Pascagoula

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Industry (manufacturing) in MS

• Other MS manufactures:

– Stennis Space Center – Bay St. Louis

• Every U.S. rocket launched into space is tested at Stennis Space

Center.

– International Paper Company – Delta Pride Catfish, Inc – Peavey electronics

• One of the largest manufactures of musical instruments in the

world.

– Nissan – General Motors

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• A rocket being

tested a Stennis Space Center.

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Peavey Electronics

Hartley Peavey

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The Service Industry

• There are three service sectors:

– Tertiary (transportation, communications, and utilities) – Quaternary (insurance, trade, legal, banking, ads, retail, consulting, info. real estate) – Quinary (education, government, tourism, heath/medicine, household.)

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Tertiary

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Quaternary

Banking  Insurance Retail 

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Quinary

Education Government Medicine  Tourism 

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The Service Industry

• Casino gaming, legalized in 1990, has had a

huge economic impact on MS.

• MS ranks 3rd in the US in the gaming industry.
• The state has about 30 casinos, most are on

the Gulf Coast.

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Environmental Resources

• A resource is anything that can be consumed or used

by people.

• natural resources = material supplied by our
• environment. (water, air, minerals, soil, or wood)
• Conservation is the careful management and use of

resources.

– 56% of MS is forest – 35% of MS is crops and pasture – 4% of MS is urban – 2% is covered with water.

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Environmental Resources

• Renewable resources = resources that natural renew

themselves.

– (wildlife, fish, livestock, or trees)

• Nonrenewable resources = resources that can not

be replaced after they are used.

– (coal, natural gas, synthetic fuels, crude oil products)

• Recyclable resources = resources that can be reused.

– (glass, aluminum, paper, and lead form car batteries are the most common recyclables)

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Environmental Resources

• In MS 98.4% of waste enters a landfill
• Only 1.4% of trash in recycled.

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MS and Natural Disasters

• Floods, tornados and hurricanes are the most

common natural disasters in MS.

• Earthquakes are a possibility because of the

New Madrid Fault in Northern MS.

• Hurricane Katrina in 2005 was the greatest

natural disaster to ever hit Mississippi.

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Hurricane Katrina (2005)

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MS Atomic Testing

• In 1964, the Tatum Salt dome served as ground zero

for a pair of atomic explosions called Salmon and Sterling.

• These were the only times the United States

detonated atomic bombs east of the Mississippi River.

• State troopers started knocking on doors at 5 a.m. to

evacuate everyone near Ground Zero.

• Each adult received $10 and children $5 for their

inconvenience.

• Tons of radioactive debris was dumped into the Salt

Dome and a deep aquifer after the Atomic Commission left in 1972.

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Atomic Testing

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Homes after the Atomic Testing

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Salt Dome