Dear Mississippi:

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Mississippi, you've been governed by Republicans for decades.

As a result, you're ranked:

#47 in education
#50 in healthcare
#50 in income
#47 in employment
#43 in happiness
#45 in fiscal stability
#49 in infrastructure

It's time for change.

It's time to elect @espyforsenate.

10:01 PM - Nov 26, 2018

[MontanaMama]

1. Boy howdy!

Those stats sure put things in perspective. Lets go MS!

[DFW]

2. Amen to that!

The scary part is that the people in power in Mississippi don't find those statistics troubling at all.

[Larrybanal]

13. largely because

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of the number that mississippi love...they are #1 in federal handouts...they have no problem with the government giving out money as long as it is to them

[DFW]

15. And like all the "taker" red states

They have no problem with the fact that "their" money comes out of taxes paid in by (mostly) blue giver states.

"No one should pay taxes, but if someone HAS to, then we want the money you libbruls pay in."

[BamaRefugee]

3. I think those rankings were exactly the same when Democrats were in charge!

Of course,those Democrats were more racist than most Republicans today.
Hey, I’m a Southern boy, from way back in the day, that’s just how it was.

[regnaD kciN]

8. Yes, and while it would be great to get Confederate Cindy out of there...

...it should be realized that Mississippi’s problems are going to take a lot more to fix than just electing a Democratic senator.

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10. The Democrats/Dixiecrats of yesteryear are today's Republicans. They bolted

when the Democratic party started to support civil rights, and the exodus really occurred after the Civil Rights Act. But being Southern, you know that.

[Larrybanal]

16. actually those racist dems

are todays republicans and were actively recruited by the GOP when the democrats were backing civil rights and the racists GOP saw an opportunity to grow their numbers...it worked but they are the same racist just changed their party

[BamaRefugee]

17. I know this all too well, I was growing up in South Carolina with Strom Thurmond as my Senator, and

Jesse Helms just a few miles north.

[allgood33]

4. Trump loves the poorly educated, as do most Republicans.

[pdsimdars]

5. Wasn't it Reagan who said that facts are stubborn things?

[duforsure]

6. People need to realize

If another republican is elected they could lose Medicaid , Medicare , and Social Security even more. Trump and the KGOP already took almost 2 trillion out of those programs and signed it into law, and electing another one will make it even easier for them to totally destroy all those programs for all MS people. They're causing drug prices to sky rocket upward, and their health care premiums to go up fast. Vote Democrat!

[regnaD kciN]

7. Hey, they're #43 in happiness while #50 in income...

...so they must be doing something right!

[amuse bouche]

9. Numbers don't lie

[safeinOhio]

11. More....

According to a 2011 Gallup poll, the state with the greatest percentage of respondents identifying as "very religious" was Mississippi (59%),

They rank just 3.81 out of 10 with an average life expectancy of 75, 76% of the student aged population (3-24) are in school and only 12% with a bachelor's degree. Just 7% of the state have advanced degrees and 19% have less than a high school education. That state is run by Republicans except for one Democrat in the House of Representatives.

[Trailrider1951]

12. Phil Ochs said it best

[logosoco]

14. Missouri: take note! nt

[SoCalDem]

18. Many of them do not give a f#@%

They cling to their sense of (not-so) righteous indignity over being gigantic LOSERS of the war they started (157 yrs ago) and for having to pretend to be less racist than many of them really are or want to be....

They get a peckish enjoyment out of constantly whittling away their own noses as they try to spite their faces...