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Travelwithall Mississippi destination, getaway, and travel guide is where you can make hotel reservations and find information and tips on travel to Mississippi. This hotel guide will help our readers find the perfect lodging accommodations in Mississippi, where you can shop and compare rates. Whether you are traveling with your family on a leisure holiday vacation or visiting for corporate business, our Mississippi hotels guide will help you find a hotel room that suits your specific needs. Free searchable list of available resorts, hotels, motels, inns, lodges, vacation rentals and other accommodations by city in Mississippi. This is where you can find available luxury five star resorts, comfortable four star hotels, clean three star lodges, convenient two star inns, and budget one star motels in MS.
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When cotton was king - and slavery was as yet unchallenged - Mississippi was the nation's fifth wealthiest state. Since the Civil War, however, it has been the poorest, its dependence on cotton now a handicap that makes it victim to the vagaries of the commodities market. Widespread poverty has long endured alongside pockets of enormous riches, and white Mississippi was notorious for violent resistance to black political participation. |
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Not until the early Seventies did the church bombings and murders come to an end, and no one could claim that racial tension has ceased to exist. To some extent, the economy has regenerated since Mississippi's first Republican governor in a century, Kirk Fordice, decided to legalize gambling; the giant casinos may be lumbering eyesores that seem pitifully out of place on the sweeping Delta flatlands, but they're sucking considerable revenues across the state line from Memphis, Tennessee. Even today, you only have to take a detour down some rural side road to encounter pockets of truly scandalous black poverty, but with the profits from gaming being ploughed into education in Mississippi's poorest counties, the state may finally manage to shake off its appalling reputation for inequality. While the major city is the capital, Jackson, historic river towns like Vicksburg and Natchez provide good reasons to stay off the interstates, and blues fans will need no encouragement to go exploring sleepy Delta settlements such as Alligator or Yazoo City.
Mississippi's hundred-mile strip of coast is utterly unlike the rest of the state, culturally as well as physically - a strong Mediterranean (Catholic) heritage is conspicuous amid the subtropical beauty. Some of the towns are scarred by hurricanes, but the beaches are often superb. Along the Gulf Islands National Seashore, four beautiful barrier islands boast brilliant white sand and clear blue waters, while the 26-mile artificial Harrison County Beach runs parallel with the busy coast road between Biloxi, the major resort, and laid-back Pass Christian, with its fine live oaks.
Although Greyhound serves most of Mississippi, including the Delta, only along the coastal stretch are services at all frequent. Jackson has the only airport of any size, while Amtrak trains from New Orleans head north to Memphis by way of Jackson and Greenwood; northeast to Atlanta, passing through a succession of unexciting small towns; and along the coast to Florida, stopping at Biloxi. Trips on the Mississippi itself are run on expensive luxury cruisers.
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