re: Poorest Region in the Deep South – Mississippi Delta

Louisiana has a lot more opportunity to make money through several things that Mississippi lacks. There is probably 500x the amount of oil and gas being produced in LA than MS and mineral owners get a lot of that. 3 of top 10 ports in the US are in LA. MS has 0. There's dozens of refineries and industry that MS lacks. There's much more seafood opportunity here than MS. NOLA gets tons of tourism, MS gets none. Casinos in Shreveport and Lake Charles attract Houston and Dallas residents. MS is too far for those cities.

There are somewhat large companies in LA like Valero, Total, Marathon, Shaw Group, Centergy, Centrylink, Entergy, Cajun construction, Dow, BASF, Exxon, Air Liquide, Oxy, I believe Shell has one, dozens of other large ones. I don't think one single company like this is in Mississippi besides Chevron in Pascagoula.

To me, it literally seems that Mississippi has nothing. I can't think of anything there that they have going on for them. The beaches there aren't quite yet like the ones east of it starting east of Mobile. Not any industry besides a Chevron pascagoula plant.