Mississippi is the most conservative state.
quote:Mississippi is home to the largest percentage of conservatives among U.S. states, with a slim majority identifying their political views as conservative.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/146...servative-state.aspx
Mississippi has the largest number of citizens living below the poverty line.
http://www.census.gov/compendi...11/ranks/rank34.html
Mississippi is home to Americas least healthy people.
quote:Eight of the 10 bottom-ranked states are from the south, with Mississippi coming in dead last for the ninth consecutive year. Mississippi has a sky-high death rate from heart disease and high infant mortality. In general, residents of these states are more likely to be smokers or to be obese, the report found. They also have worse health insurance coverage, fewer physicians per capita and live in areas with high violent crime and more child poverty.
http://www.forbes.com/2009/11/...alth-states-top.html
Children in Mississippi cant read.
quote:According to the National Assessment of Educational Progress tests administered by the U.S. Department Education, only 22% of Magnolia State fourth graders read at or above grade level. By eighth grade, the figure falls to 19%. (Only the District of Columbia does worse.)
Perhaps if they could read they would know how to avoid getting pregnant.
quote:Mississippi now has the nation’s highest teen birth rate, displacing Texas and New Mexico for that lamentable title, a new federal report says. Mississippi’s rate was more than 60 percent higher than the national average in 2006, according to new state statistics released Wednesday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28538524/
That is one big pile of fail...but, Mississippi does have low taxes. This will be the America of the Republican Party.
