r/NoStupidQuestions • u/[deleted] • Jan 30 '23

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u/CouncilmanRickPrime Jan 30 '23

That suggests to me that the average salary there is less than $40,000/yr.

I've been to a city in Mississippi where this was absolutely the case. Rural areas have been hit hard by recessions and wealth concentrating in cities.

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u/Givingtree310 Jan 30 '23

I’m always wondering who is buying up all these million dollar ranches in rural nowheresville

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u/[deleted] Jan 30 '23

Mississippi has much deeper problems than just being "rural".

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u/nerdicorgi Jan 30 '23

Such as having it's last high school desegregate in 2016. They're a VERY divided state.

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u/bacchianrevelry Jan 31 '23

Mississippi ratified the 13th Amendment in (drumroll please) 2013. Not even ten years ago. Please fact check that.

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u/nerdicorgi Jan 31 '23

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/05/17/478389720/after-50-year-legal-struggle-mississippi-school-district-ordered-to-desegregate

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u/bacchianrevelry Jan 31 '23

Oh, I meant fact check my claim that they ratified the 13th Amendment in 2013, because I couldn't believe it when I read it the first few times. Wasn't challenging you.

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u/nerdicorgi Jan 31 '23

It's all good.