Coastal Traditions: The Mississippi Gulf Coast

In this paper I will inform you with a few of these events and topics such as the Civil war, slavery, as well as facts of the state. I hope my readers walk away with a new respect and outlook of Mississippi and learn how the past can affect the future, as well as the beauty.

The group that made up the largest portion of the southern social ladder was the small farmers.

The Mississippian culture was composed of a series of urban settlements and villages linked together by a loose trading network The Mississippian culture flourished from 800-1600 AD. It encompassed the southern shores of the Great Lakes at Western New York and Western Pennsylvania in the Eastern Midwest, all the way into the south/southwest of the Mississippi Valley and into the Southeastern United States.

The trans-Mississippi West was a daunting region shaped primarily by three main groups of settlers. Each group of settlers had their own problems specific to their area and lifestyle. The settlers were resilient however and overcame their problems. As the frontier came to an end, some argued that the frontier had largely influenced American life and character.

Mississippi Delta became very industrialized in the early 1980s. The Delta had risen from a swampy wilderness through its heyday as the New South’s Old South to its post-New Deal status as a planter’s paradise, where those who reaped the benefits of a rapidly modernizing plantation economy also managed to maintain their dominance in social and political sphere. Agriculture remains the backbone of the region 's economy, but farms that once required hundreds of people have become more technical. In the Delta, cotton was once king and many people became dependent upon the development of cotton, and now cotton no longer need someone to pick it, farmers have target the growth of livestock, soybeans, sweet potatoes to make profit. By the late 1980s to 1990s, the proportion of all jobs in natural resources and manufacturing had decline from 31 percent to 29 percent in the Delta. Recently, U.S. Department of Labor has proven that the unemployment rate in Tallahatchie County was about 10 percent, reaching a year high of about 13.5 percent by the mid of 2010.

The world is consuming more than it can produce. In order to produce the amount that we use, requires a lot of waste to be made. Industrial production produces industrial waste. With the amount of waste being produced it is effecting the environment, especially the water and food supply. Everyone is a polluter and everyone abuses the environment.

The beauty and innocence that Mark Twain witnessed on the Mississippi River was just a deception due to his lack of knowledge. In Mark Twain’s memoir, Life on the Mississippi, Mark Twain acquires knowledge that exposes the majestic Mississippi River as a dangerous and malevolent place. In Mark Twain’s memoir he introduced a book that was perceived differently between the passenger and the pilot. Mark Twain was once the optimistic passenger that saw the beauty in anything.

Scientists have studied the impact of water borne pathogens over time. Just how dependent human life is on the waterways is one such question which arises. The study involves the effect of such pathogens on human life. This study was narrowed down to the area of the Chesapeake Bay in Virginia. The Chesapeake Bay each weekend is occupied for recreational use. Such activities as swimming, fishing, and body surfing are common place. Normally each year thousands of pounds of seafood are distributed from out of the bay. There is a vast amount of people who come to visit the area each year.

Southerners come from a strong historical past which invokes their southern dialect and understanding. Some folkways southerners follow are that they deep fry anything and everything, manners are taught young like : yes ma'am and yes sir.

Mississippi’s history tends to be one of the hardest places’ you can come live in the south has a memory of poor culture, slavery, and a soulful music background the history of Mississippi it’s very inspiring a place of true hardship specially for the African American during slavery there were plantations they planted cotton, corn, and other vegetables as they were slaved on these plantations and beaten. They lone for a escape for freedom some of the women were raped by their owner and had mixed- race children they wanted the population to grow so that they could produce more products to support them and their family their job was to serve the owner of the plantation by fixings meals, doing laundry and out in the field and other chores are duties that was demanded upon them finally the 13th Amendment to Ban slavery in Mississippi nearly 150 years after it adoption.

The Mississippian flag has been the cause of much unrest in the States, and an argument has arisen. On one side, they think that the Confederate flag being part of the Mississippi flag is a memorable ensign, that represents a virtuous service of the men who fought for the rights of their state, and that they should be able to keep the flag to represent that. The other side of the fight says that flag represents white supremacy, and a history of hate towards black people. In Clarksdale, Mississippi, Mayor Bill Luckett chose to take down the flag from it’s post. He isn’t the only one, for people in other cities including Columbus, Starkville, and Hattiesburg have chosen the take down the flag. Among the people fighting against the flag, is the

Mississippi history is a sad history of slavery and oppression. It is a history of racism and refusal to let go of segregationist ideals. Mississippi history is enough to give many the blues. In fact, the Blues style music originated in Mississippi and gravitated outward from there. .Mississippi history and Blues history are intertwined. Delta Blues is a blues style that originated in the Mississippi Delta and influenced many musicians. Another musical art form, Jazz may be considered an offspring from the Blues and also started in the South. There are many Blues musicians and singers that come from Mississippi or have become linked to Mississippi for various reasons. Bessie Smith, Charley Patton, Muddy Waters, and Cassandra Wilson have

I have never been to Mississippi but, I do believe that I would like it. I see from the movie that there is a lot of trees and forest areas. I love nature, so I'm sure there is lots of things I could plan and enjoy outdoors there. I imagine the culture there to also be different. I see a lot of people live in the country and like back home in Minnesota people who live outside the city have their own ways of doing things. I know they have a lot of plantations there. I love the style of homes on the plantations and that they are so large. I love old look they have to them and all the old furniture pieces they are typically filled with, according to the magazines. I read a little about the state online. According to history reports about it, a

According to Nagel & Sanders, the answer to the question “What are the origins of Southern American English?” is more complex that we think. Southern American English involves personal abstracts, mental systems, and behaviors. There are different contributors that influenced the origins of the Southern American English. The Amerindian existing population, British immigrants, Scots-Irish immigrants and African slaves influenced the formation of American Southern English. This mixture or races brought a lexical variety in the spoken language. Like Nagle and Sander stated, “A language cannot be affected by the environment in which it is used. Speakers settle in a place, and then the place affects their speech (Nagle & Sanders, 2003, p.

Is the shoreline of the Mississippi River undesirable? In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, the shore line of the Mississippi River symbolizes an undesirable place, because it is violent, full of trouble, and demonstrates conformity.