Reply #11: "a very good job with a nice pension within reach" right there on Mississippi soil? [View All]

[flordehinojos]

Really. How bad can MISSISSIPPI be?
I spent part of my teen-age years in HINDS COUNTY in the UTICA, RAYMOND, EDWARDS, JACKSON, VICKSBURG, historical battleground areas of the civil war--though no one advertised it as such back then except for Vicksburg. Kids I knew back then must have been from another planet. They liked to read good fiction--and I think sometimes they competed to see who could read the most in the least time, or who was most up to date on the latest author; they stayed up to watch Johnny Carson, which, in that time, I think was sort of an icon of the avante garde; they, later on went to Ole Miss and Miss State University. I briefly met the Medgar Evers family on a visit to the Discalced Carmelites in Jackson. I was visiting the Carmelites when the door bell rang and it was the Evers family also coming to call on the Carmelites. Those kids that I grew up with way back then, for that period of time from way back then, were pro-civil rights. That doesn't take away from the fact that there were assholes in Mississippi back then. Lots of them. But there were some nice, pretty decent people too. They adored Eudora Welty, William Faulkner and the soil that they walked on.