History - a vast Mississippi of falsehoods

I'm from the Mississippi delta originally.

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

The folks in Mississippi are saying, 'Thank God for Texas.'

I am from Brookhaven, a small town in Southwest Mississippi.

The gifts of God should be enjoyed by all citizens in Mississippi.

I grew up by the Mississippi River, and I would swim in that as a kid.

Air service is an important asset for rural communities in Mississippi.

In Mississippi, black and white live cheek by jowl, day in and day out.

I'm a black writer from Mississippi. That's what I most consider myself.

I am determined to get every Negro in the state of Mississippi registered.

The Coast Guard has a strong presence in Mississippi and on its waterways.

Courage isn't something you are born with. It comes to you with experience.

I rode on a float in one of the parades in Mississippi. It's an experience.

I always enjoy myself fighting in Mississippi. I enjoy myself fighting anywhere.

It is a great honor to serve Mississippi as its first female United States Senator.

My father is from Mississippi, and I heard stories of racial injustice my whole life.

Mississippi is a welcoming duty station for servicemembers and their working spouses.

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

I'd spent summers growing up in Mississippi, so I had an idea of what the South is like.

My dad is in Mississippi. He exited the Navy and made a ton of money as an entrepreneur.

I know lots of people in Mississippi who have lost their jobs trying to register to vote.

I wanted to get out of Mississippi in the worst way. Go back? What I want to go back for?

Mark Twain gave us an insight into the life on the Mississippi at the turn of the century.

It's already 95 degrees outside. Mississippi got the most unorganized weather in the nation.

America is thataway, Mr. Lincoln," laughed Davis, pointing north. "You're in Mississippi now.

That's why I want to change Mississippi. You don't run away from problems - you just face them.

My maternal grandmother was a star on her high school basketball team in small-town Mississippi.

Of course that was my idol, Son House. I think he did a lot for the Mississippi slide down there.

I once paddled a canoe the length of the Mississippi River all the way from Itasca to New Orleans.

I grew up in Mississippi. I was there for 13 years, and then when I turned 13, I moved out to L.A.

I grew up in Jackson, Mississippi, really in suburbia, so my mother was in community theatre plays.

Many veterans in Mississippi struggle with the bureaucratic process of the Veterans Administration.

I was born in Clinton, Mississippi, which had 1,500-2,500 people when I was growing up - a village.

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

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

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

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

That Mississippi sound, that Delta sound is in them old records. You can hear it all the way through.

I'm not a liberal elite who was educated in the northeast, for example, I'm just a kid from Mississippi.

Almost 70 percent of U.S. ag exports travel the upper Mississippi River and the Illinois waterway system.

This is said to us, even as this counterfeit president has legalized the Confederate Flag in Mississippi.

I was just a small boy from Mississippi, and now little kids are going to identify with me through this game.

Vicksburg lies on top of a bluff on the east side of a large tongue of land jutting out into the Mississippi.

I've always loved gospel music. Being raised in Mississippi, it was kind of part of the atmosphere down there.

This United States Government should go down to Mississippi and protect my people. That is what should happen.

The funny response to 'One Mississippi' continues to be that people don't know what is true and what's fiction.

Only remember west of the Mississippi it's a little more look, see, act. A little less rationalize, comment, talk.

I've just come back from Mississippi and over there when you talk about the West Bank they think you mean Arkansas.

I wrote some of the worst poetry west from the Mississippi River, but I wrote. And I finally sometimes got it right.

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