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Folks have a common misconception that Mississippi is strictly a rural, outdoors state. While we are famous for our hunting, sport fishing and year-round golf, we also have leading manufacturers like Peavey Electronics and Viking Range Corp.

— Gregg Harper

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I've always been fascinated by the Mississippi River and the way of life in these small river towns.

— Daniel Woodrell

I'm from the Mississippi delta originally.

— Little Milton

I feel like I can be myself in L.A. I feel like Mississippi is a little close-minded; not all of Mississippi is, but just the part that I came from. They really don't get outsiders.

— Israel Broussard

I see more genuine sociability between the races in Mississippi than I see in Michigan. No question.

— Jim Harrison

I went to college in Mississippi; I'm from Louisiana.

— Trishelle Cannatella

Yeah, I spent my teen years in West Virginia, and when I was a kid, in Louisiana. I definitely have that exposure to two different sorts of rural: the South and Appalachia.

— Sam Trammell

In Mississippi, you don't admit that you're gay. It's just an awkward thing down South, which is sad.

— Lance Bass

When my father started talking about strip mining in the Appalachia back in the '60s, I remember a conversation I had with him where he said, you know, this is the richest state in the country if you look at the resources and the land, but the poorest people after the state of Mississippi: the 49th poorest people in the country.

— Robert Kennedy, Jr.

Forty percent of the United States drains into the Mississippi. It's agriculture. It's golf courses. It's domestic runoff from our lawns and roads. Ultimately, where does it go? Downstream into the gulf.

— Sylvia Earle

I grew up in Kilmichael, Mississippi. It's a dot on the map 100 miles north of Jackson.

— Grace Hightower

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