Mississippi

the US state of Mississippi

Abbreviation, Short Form, Rare Terms

"MS"

Admission to USA, Created

December 10th 1817

Nickname

"Magnolia State"; "The Magnolia State, The Hospitality State"; "The Magnolia State"; "The Hospitality State"; "The Magnolia State; The Hospitality State"

State Capital

Jackson County, MS; Jackson, Mississippi

Website

http://www.mississippi.gov

Area

125,443 square kilometres; 125,434 square kilometres

Births

▶ Britney Spears, Elvis Presley, Rick Ross, Oprah Winfrey, Jamie Lynn Spears,  …

Mishavonna Henson, Brett Favre, Ray J, Mandingo, Hayley Williams, Brandy, Natalee Holloway, Belladonna, Lacey Chabert, Muddy Waters, James Earl Jones, Robert Johnson, Eric Roberts, William Faulkner, Sam Cooke, David Banner, Lance Bass, Jim Henson, Bobby Valentino, Ted DiBiase Jr., Charlaine Harris, Tennessee Williams, LeAnn Rimes, Faith Hill, Conway Twitty, Jimmy Buffett, Jerry Rice, Bo Diddley, Ike Turner, Archie Manning, Medgar Evers, Christopher Boykin, John Lee Hooker, Cat Cora, Jimmy Hart, Johnny Winter, Shepard Smith, Richard Wright, Erica Ellyson, John S. McCain, Sela Ward, Ida B. Wells, James Meredith, Laura Bailey, Willie Dixon, Paul McCoy, Robert Johnson, Marion Barry, Trent Lott, Robert L. Johnson, Clinton Portis, Larry Hoover, Albert King, Maurice Williams, Ed Freeman, Andrew Wood, Cassi Davis, Eudora Welty, Fannie Lou Hamer, Richard Wright, Ken Lewis, Daniel Curtis Lee, Monta Ellis, Jason Campbell, Deanna Favre, Mary Wilson, Son House, Alexander O'Neal, Robin Roberts, Bobbie Gentry, Paula White, Jeremiah Riggs, Steve McNair, Henry Armstrong, Charley Pride, Lester Young, Diane Ladd, Gerald McRaney, Diplo, Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf, Frederick W. Smith, Tavis Smiley, Haley Barbour, Shelby Foote, Stella Stevens, Dana Andrews, Fred Haise, Ray Mabus, Chris LeDoux, Olu Dara, Riley Martin, Todd Grisham, Allie Grant, Jeff Fort, Paul Davis, Elmore James, Delta Gamma, Lynne Spears, Tommy Aldridge, Marty Stuart, Joshua Alba, Diplo, Jimmy Ruffin, Pepper Keenan, Spencer Haywood, Jerry Butler, Thelma Houston, Mississippi John Hurt, Mary Ann Mobley, Antonio McDyess, Skip James, Mary Alice, Deuce McAllister, Al Jefferson, Matt Barlow, Richard Ford, Mary Elizabeth Ellis, Rebecca Walker, Roger Wicker, Van Dyke Parks, Big Bill Broonzy, R. L. Burnside, Danny Manning, Donna Tartt, Jimmy Reed, Cassandra Wilson, Hale Boggs, Tim Floyd, Jasmine Murray, Carrie C. White, John C. Stennis, Thad Cochran, James Michael Tyler, Jimmy Boyd, Dee Brown, James Chaney, Jerry Clower, Simbi Khali, Jonathan Bender, Matt Murphy, Hound Dog Taylor, Glen Ballard, Jim Harris, Josh Booty, Cynthia Geary, Tommy Johnson, Jimmy Rogers, Jarboe, Tig Notaro, Delaney Bramlett, Junior Kimbrough, Marsha Blackburn, Lindsey Hunter, Lauren Jones, Bukka White, Josh Hancock, Cool Papa Bell, Robert Earl Jones, Finn Carter, M. C. Gainey, Willie Morris, Jackie Smith, Chad Bradford, Ellen Stratton, John Dye, Erick Dampier, Fred Smoot, Hattie Winston, Mose Allison, Billy Cannon, William Grant Still, Ty Herndon, Charlie Patton, Hubert Sumlin, Mel Reynolds, James Eastland, Al Wilson, Jai Johanny Johanson, James Bevel, Pinetop Perkins, Cleo Lemon, Dave Parker, Nikki Griffin, Rod Paige, Lynn Hamilton, Red Barber, Don Jeffcoat, Magic Sam, Steve Forbert, Myrlie Evers-Williams, Big Joe Williams, Shan Foster, Kevin Henry, Erma Franklin, Varina Howell

Capital

Jackson, Mississippi; Jackson County, MS

Origin of

▶ Robert Johnson, Saving Abel, Tammy Wynette, Alexander O'Neal, Pepper Keenan,  …

Jasmine Murray, Brian Marshall, Al Wilson, Luther Dickinson, Denise LaSalle, Ted Hawkins, Furry Lewis, David L. Cook, George McConnell, Robert Wilkins, Fern Kinney, John Gilmore, Henry Sloan, Kansas Joe McCoy, Lil Green, Jim Weatherly, Otis Clay, Sam Myers, Carl Jackson, Eddy Clearwater, Neilson Hubbard, Jack Yarber, Margie Joseph, Papa Charlie McCoy, Crossin' Dixon, Mel London, Papa Lightfoot, Eden Brent, Deanna Summers, Watership Down, Lowkey, The Weeks, AtomshipDown

Location

▶ the United States, North America, The Confederate States of America, the world, the Americas,  …

the Northern Hemisphere, Southeastern United States, North America, the continental United States, the US dollar zone, the area using the NANP, the G8, the contiguous United States, the Central Standard Time region

Location of

▶ Hurricane Katrina; Hurricane Ike; Hurricane Gustav; Hurricane Rita; Hurricane Camille;  …

Galveston Hurricane of 1900; Jackson, Mississippi; University of Mississippi; Biloxi, Mississippi; Mississippi Delta; Mississippi State University; Vicksburg, Mississippi; American Family Association; Tupelo, Mississippi; Natchez, Mississippi; Gulfport, Mississippi; Oxford; Meridian, Mississippi; Hattiesburg, Mississippi; Hurricane Dennis; Jackson State University; Peavey Electronics; Hurricane Georges; Tucows; McComb, Mississippi; Clarksdale; 1926 Miami hurricane; Pascagoula, Mississippi; Starkville, Mississippi; the Mississippi 662 telephone code area; Greenwood, Mississippi; Taste of Chicago; Tunica, Mississippi; Alcorn State University; Columbus, Mississippi; Greenville, Mississippi; Philadelphia, Mississippi; Natchez Trace Parkway; Delta State University; Yazoo City, Mississippi; Hurricane Frederic; Kosciusko, Mississippi; The University of Southern Mississippi; Mississippi Valley State University; the Mississippi 228 telephone code area; Laurel, Mississippi; Cellular South; Clinton, Mississippi; Tropical Storm Hanna; Tombigbee River; Bay Saint Louis, Mississippi; Millsaps College; Southaven, Mississippi; Hurricane Elena; USS Cairo; Corinth, Mississippi; Pearl, Mississippi; Batesville, Mississippi; Holly Springs, Mississippi; Canton, Mississippi; Mississippi College; Ocean Springs, Mississippi; Yazoo River; Olive Branch, Mississippi; Harrison County, MS; Longwood; Picayune, Mississippi; Cleveland; Tougaloo College; Liberty, Mississippi; Pass Christian, Mississippi; Money, Mississippi; Indianola, Mississippi; Neshoba County; Neshoba County, MS; Jackson-Evers International Airport; DeSoto County; DeSoto County, MS; Waveland, Mississippi; Charleston; Hazlehurst, Mississippi; Jackson metropolitan area; Itta Bena, Mississippi; Hinds County, MS; Beauvoir; Long Beach, Mississippi; Rust College; Tallahatchie County; Tallahatchie County, MS; Madison, Mississippi; Parklane Academy; Hancock County, MS; Mound Bayou, Mississippi; 1947 Fort Lauderdale Hurricane; Hurricane Erin; McAlister's Deli; Jackson County; Jackson County, MS; Hurricane Cindy; Brandon, Mississippi; Gulf Islands National Seashore; Kiln, Mississippi; Brookhaven, Mississippi; Tunica Resorts, Mississippi; Jones County, MS; Louis Sullivan Bungalow; Vicksburg National Military Park; Beau Rivage; Ridgeland, Mississippi; Arkabutla Lake; Columbia, Mississippi; Jefferson County, MS; Gillsburg, Mississippi; Hurricane Danny; Windsor Ruins; Mississippi University for Women; Grenada; West Point, Mississippi; Hernando, Mississippi; Sunflower County; Sunflower County, MS; Wiggins, Mississippi; Columbus University; Belhaven College; Escatawpa, Mississippi; Lafayette County; Lafayette County, MS; Moss Point, Mississippi; Hurricane Juan; Madison County; Madison County, MS; Bolivar County; Bolivar County, MS; Issaquena County, MS; Rowan Oak; Gulfport-Biloxi International Airport; Carroll County, Mississippi; Greenville Bridge; Tishomingo County, MS; Pleiku Air Base; Magee, Mississippi; Rankin County; Rankin County, MS; Holmes County; Holmes County, MS; Mississippi Governor's Mansion; Horn Lake, Mississippi; Tunica County; Tunica County, MS; Meridian Community College; Gautier, Mississippi; Yazoo County; Yazoo County, MS; Adams County, MS; Northwest Mississippi Community College; Iuka, Mississippi; Sparta, Mississippi; Ruleville, Mississippi; Hinds Community College; Purvis, Mississippi; McRaven House; Mississippi's 4th congressional district; Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College; Lowndes County, MS; Panola County, MS; Mississippi Coast Coliseum; Chickasaw County, MS; Senatobia, Mississippi; Aberdeen, Mississippi; Leflore County; Leflore County, MS; Belzoni, Mississippi; Tropical Storm Bertha; Forrest County; Forrest County, MS; Pontotoc, Mississippi; Pearl River County; Pearl River County, MS; Lee County; Lee County, MS; Lauderdale County, MS; Port Gibson, Mississippi; Winona, Mississippi; Claiborne County, MS; Noxubee County; Noxubee County, MS; Wilkinson County; Wilkinson County, MS; University of Mississippi Medical Center; Mississippi's 3rd congressional district; McRae's; William Carey University; Drew, Mississippi; Kemper County; Kemper County, MS; Washington County; Washington County, MS; Rosedale, Mississippi; Petal, Mississippi; New Albany, Mississippi

Subsidiaries

Mississippi Veterans Memorial Stadium

Wikipedia Page

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi

Broadcast Area of

WESE

Slogan

"Virtute et armis (By Valor and Arms)"

Deaths

▶ Robert Johnson; William Faulkner; Medgar Evers; Ronnie Van Zant; Bessie Smith;  …

Junkyard Dog; Eudora Welty; Fannie Lou Hamer; Byron De La Beckwith; Steve Gaines; John Kennedy Toole; Paul Davis; Cassie Gaines; Mississippi John Hurt; Hiram Rhodes Revels; Roger Wicker; Ean Evans; John C. Stennis; James Chaney; Jerry Clower; Jimmy Rogers; Junior Kimbrough; Charlie Patton; James Eastland; Frank Melton; Sam Bowers; Vernon Dahmer; Ross Barnett; Beah Richards; Hodding Carter; Margaret Taylor; Larry Brown; Jamie L. Whitten; Barry Hannah; Doug Marlette; Walter Inglis Anderson; Kirk Fordice; Jumpin' Gene Simmons; Stephen D. Lee; Moses Hardy; Paul B. Johnson; John E. Rankin; John A. Quitman; James P. Coleman; Jack Keller; Francis Wayland Parker; Bob Ferguson; Lewis William Walt; Cliff Finch; Ishman Bracey; Lloyd Tilghman; Albert G. Brown; Phillip Martin; John Bell Williams; Alexander P. Stewart; Johnny Vaught; George Poindexter; Joseph R. Davis; Benjamin G. Humphreys; Hugh L. White; William Wirt Adams; John S. Bowen; Robert Crittenden; Seargent Smith Prentiss; Andrew Pickens; Gillespie V. Montgomery; William Greenleaf Eliot; Augustus Baldwin Longstreet; John Sharp Williams; William M. Colmer; Zebulon York; Holt Collier; James Z. George; Blind Roosevelt Graves; Claude Passeau; Andrew H. Longino; Martin Sennett Conner; Henry A. Commiskey; James Copeland; Winthrop Sargent; Charles Read; Charles S. Morehead; Earl L. Brewer; H. C. Speir; James Argyle Smith; Earl Leggett; Thomas L. Bailey; John Francis Hamtramck Claiborne; John B. Fournet; James F. Trotter; Martin E. Green; Thomas Rodney; Hubert D. Stephens; Jesse Speight; Paul Capdevielle; Hernando Money; John Marshall Stone; Vernel fournier; Charles Lynch; Henry L. Whitfield; James Gordon; Lee M. Russell; Walker Brooke; Edmond Noel; Absolom M. West; John Henderson; Barney Poole; Frank A. McLain; George L. Sheldon; Jack Mason Gougar; Hamilton D. Coleman; William McWillie; Evander McNair; Samuel J. Gholson; James Oliver Van de Velde; Frank E. Smith; Loy Allen Bowlin; Hannah Tracy Cutler; William V. Sullivan; Jacob H. Sharp; David Ker; Lawrence E. Roberts; Walter Gordon; Paul "Wine" Jones; Jonathan Hoge Walker; Pleasant A. Hackleman; Claudius W. Sears; Samuel W. Ferguson; Jasper A. Maltby; William F. Tucker; Lewis Henry Little; William H. Worthington; Isham Warren Garrott; Ira Clinton Welborn; Mike Patrick; Franklin E. Plummer; Elza Jeffords; Maidel Turner; Aaron L. Ford; Lawrence R. Ellzey; Edward J. Robeson, Jr.; Dan R. McGehee; Benjamin G. Humphreys II; George C. McKee; Alexander G. McNutt; John I. Guion; Charles E. Hooker; Joseph B. Plummer; James Hardy; Richard Oliver Gerow

Builder of

USS Vernon County

Coordinates

33°00'00"N, 90°00'00"W

End of

▶ Interstate 10 in Louisiana, Interstate 10 in Alabama, Alabama State Route 14, Interstate 20 in Louisiana, Interstate 55 in Louisiana,  …

Alabama State Route 96, Interstate 55 in Tennessee, U.S. Route 51 in Tennessee, Tennessee State Route 5, Tennessee State Route 4, Tennessee State Route 18, Alabama State Route 86, Alabama State Route 56, Alabama State Route 24, Alabama State Route 18, Alabama State Route 10, Tennessee State Route 57, Alabama State Route 118, Alabama State Route 32

Overlaps

▶ The Mississippi River, Tennessee River, Interstate 22, Tallahatchie River, Interstate 269,  …

Interstate 69 in Mississippi, Pascagoula River, Hatchie River, Interstate 10 in Mississippi, Interstate 110, Interstate 220, Chickasawhay River, Homochitto River, Yalobusha River, Buttahatchee River, Chunky River, Interstate 59 in Mississippi, Yockanookany River, Sunflower River, Noxubee River, Bouie River, Tangipahoa River, Luxapallila Creek, Quiver River, Pearl River, Okatoma Creek, Oak Slush Creek, Strong River, Skuna River, East Fork Tombigbee River

Nearest Settlement of

▶ Arkabutla Lake, Ross Barnett Reservoir, Sardis Lake, Pickwick Lake, Columbus Lake,  …

Aberdeen Lake, Enid Lake, Aliceville Lake, Flint Creek Water Park

Pet Name

"The Magnolia State; The Hospitality State"; "The Hospitality State"; "The Magnolia State"; "The Magnolia State, The Hospitality State"; "Magnolia State"

Borders

Alabama, Louisiana, Tennessee, Arkansas

Politicians

▶ Trent Lott, Hiram Rhodes Revels, Roger Wicker, John C. Stennis, Thad Cochran,  …

Blanche Bruce, James Eastland, Theodore G. Bilbo, Chip Pickering, Travis Childers, Bennie Thompson, Jamie L. Whitten, Gene Taylor, William Barksdale, John R. Lynch, John E. Rankin, Jon Hinson, James K. Vardaman, James L. Alcorn, Pat Harrison, Albert G. Brown, Henry S. Foote, George Poindexter, Ronnie Shows, David Holmes, LeRoy Percy, Gillespie V. Montgomery, John Sharp Williams, James Z. George, Wayne Dowdy, Thomas Buck Reed, Powhatan Ellis, James F. Trotter, Hubert D. Stephens, Jesse Speight, Hernando Money, James Gordon, Walker Brooke, John Henderson, Michael Parker, Steven Palazzo, Alan Nunnelee

Residents

▶ Britney Spears, Channing Tatum, Soulja Boy, Brett Favre, Mandingo,  …

Lacey Chabert, William Faulkner, Lance Bass, Jim Henson, Tennessee Williams, LeAnn Rimes, John Grisham, Faith Hill, David Ruffin, Walter Payton, Conway Twitty, Jerry Rice, Medgar Evers, Shepard Smith, Florence Ballard, John S. McCain, Sela Ward, Tammy Wynette, Ida B. Wells, Laura Bailey, Marion Barry, Trent Lott, Robert L. Johnson, Eudora Welty, Fannie Lou Hamer, Richard Wright, Ken Lewis, Deanna Favre, Mary Wilson, Steve McNair, Henry Armstrong, Charley Pride, Gerald McRaney, Haley Barbour, Dana Andrews, Marty Stuart, Jimmy Ruffin, Spencer Haywood, Thelma Houston, Mississippi John Hurt, Bernard Ebbers, Antonio McDyess, Deuce McAllister, Al Jefferson, Big Bill Broonzy, Jimmy Reed, Edgar Ray Killen, James Michael Tyler, Jonathan Bender, Matt Murphy, Roy Oswalt, Tig Notaro, Delaney Bramlett, Otis Rush, Lindsey Hunter, Josh Hancock, Luke Woodham, Cool Papa Bell, Barrett Strong, Finn Carter, M. C. Gainey, Ellen Stratton, John Dye, Hattie Winston, Mose Allison, Dave Parker, Mylon LeFevre, Sam Bowers, Steve Forbert, Shan Foster, Kevin Henry, Varina Howell, Ernie Terrell, Jean Terrell, Correll Buckhalter, Deshea Townsend, Cecil Price, Donald Wildmon, Pushmataha, C. L. Franklin, Charlie Feathers, Pops Staples, Hodding Carter, Angela McGlowan, Lucille Bogan, Calvin Smith, Thomas C. Hindman, Marcus Dupree, Denise LaSalle, John Lomax, Luke Short, Nan Kelley, Cadillac Don & J-Money, J. B. Lenoir, Cory Maye, Jeff Bates, Charles Evers, Barry Hannah, David Herbert Donald, Clarence Weatherspoon, Gene Taylor, Andy Kennedy, Jonathan Van Every, Naomi Sims, Rogers Stevens, Walter Inglis Anderson, Kirk Fordice, Frank White, Kendall Simmons, Louis H. Wilson, Milan Williams, Terri O'Connell, Willie Best, Quentin Groves, Marcus Thames, Lusia Harris, Justin Mapp, Larry Speakes, Dwayne Rudd, Larry Stewart, Clyde Kennard, Kent Austin, Karen Graham, Herb Washington, Lamar Smith, Hank Cochran, Charles W. Pickering, Anthony Herrera, Barbara Siggers Franklin, Wendell Ladner, William Winter, Van Chancellor, Richard H. Truly, Wesley Walls, Frederick Barthelme, Carey Bell, Robert Khayat, Cardis Cardell Willis, Tim Bowens, Justin Griffith, Charles Henri Ford, Garrison Starr, Willie Totten, Ephren Taylor, Billy Garland, Floyd Womack, Webb Wilder, Pat Fordice, Amy Tuck, Craig Wiseman, Bob Quick, Geeshie Wiley, Susie Gibson, William Raspberry, Tony Sipp, Derek Pegues, Fred Barnett, Micheal Spurlock, Eldra Buckley, Kansas Joe McCoy, Mike Phelps, Greenwood LeFlore, Fox Conner, L. C. Greenwood, Estus Pirkle, Thea Bowman, Kristi Addis, Al Young, Ronnie Lester, Laurence C. Jones, Parys Haralson, Kent Hull, Antuan Edwards, Phillip Martin, Luther Johnson, James Blackwood, Cory Branan, Henry S. Foote, Terry Catledge, Rashard Anderson, Dexter McCleon, Don Briscoe, Don Blasingame, Meredith Gardner, Jim Gallagher, Joseph R. Davis, Lewis Nordan, William Leo Hansberry, Ruth Ford, Jimmy Dawkins, Ed Manning, William Clark Falkner, Donald Lee, Kennedy McKinney, St. John Richardson Liddell

Patron Saint

Saint Peter

The Area Served By

Cellular South, Sonny's Real Pit Bar-B-Q, Mississippi Public Broadcasting, MetroCast Cablevision, Powertel

Mouth of

The Mississippi River, Tennessee River

Class

▶ US state, administrative area within a nation, trading day area, geographical subdivision of the US, populated place,  …

administrative area within a nation above city-level, geographical area

Name-source of

USS Mississippi

Theme of

▶ The Sound and the Fury; As I Lay Dying; Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry; A Time To Kill; Light in August;  …

Black Boy; The Appeal; The Last Juror; Go Down, Moses; The Reivers; The Summons; The Chamber; The Hamlet; The Help; Let the Circle Be Unbroken; Intruder in the Dust; The Unvanquished; The Little Friend; The Town; The Mansion; The Robber Bridegroom; Coming of Age in Mississippi; Flags in the Dust; Pale Horse Coming; Tishomingo Blues; The Keepers of the House; Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man; Old Times on the Mississippi; Mother of Pearl; Jewel; The Quiet Game; Sleep No More; Tumult and silence at Second Creek; Two novels; Freedom summer; Bloodroot; A dilly of a death; Morning Song; Magic time; Three lives for Mississippi; Homeland Insecurity; Crossroad blues; Dirty South; Swamp Man; The oxygen man; Visible spirits; The End of California; Veneer; Prisoners of war; The roads of my relations; Boomerang\/Never Die; Yonder stands your orphan; Vicksburg; The sharpshooter blues; Wolf whistle; Sugar among the freaks; Music of the swamp; Boy with loaded gun; Liliane; Freedom walk; Hunting season; Deep South; Come love a stranger; Third Degree; Mississippi mud; The journey home; The last train north; Once upon a time when we were colored; Conversations with Shelby Foote; September, September; Jordan County; Follow me down; Love in a dry season

Place Of Incorporation of

▶ Trustmark; Hancock Holding Company; BancorpSouth, Inc.; First M & F Corporation; Peoples Financial Corporation;  …

Britton & Koontz Capital Corporation; Cadence Financial Corporation; Southern Farm Bureau Fund Distributor, Inc.; Coker & Palmer, Inc.; Citizens Corp; Entergy Mississippi Inc; Brookwood Medical Center Of Gulfport Inc; Capitol Street Corp; First Bancshares Inc; Sanderson Farms Inc; Merchants & Marine Bancorp, Inc.; Hancock Holding Co; Renasant Corp; First M&f Corp; Britton & Koontz Capital Corp; Peoples Financial Corp; Security Capital Corp; Cadence Financial Corp; Citizens Holding Co

Iso 3166:2 Code

"US-MS"

Partly in

the United States

Language

English, written English, written US English

Telephone Code

+1.662, +1.601, +1.228

Wordnet Synset ID

"109103943"

Counties

Adams County, MS; Amite County, MS; Alcorn County, MS; Attala County, MS; Benton County, MS

Illegal

commit adultery

Governor

Haley Barbour

Legal Acts

use a telephone while driving

Often Found

▶ Arisaema triphyllum, White Ash, Switchgrass, Saw Palmetto, Yellow Jessamine,  …

Allium canadense, Lobelia inflata, Spanish dagger, Vallisneria americana, Ambrosia artemisiifolia, Hydrangea arborescens, Lindera benzoin, Oenothera speciosa, Vaccinium darrowii, Rhapidophyllum hystrix, Asarum canadense, Ambrosia trifida, Phlox divaricata, Viburnum acerifolium, Opuntia stricta, Symphyotrichum novae-angliae, Sarracenia rubra, Eastern prickly pear, Campanulastrum americanum, Nymphaea mexicana, Iris giganticaerulea, Polygonatum biflorum, Sarracenia alata, Sarracenia rosea, Sesuvium portulacastrum, Commelina erecta, Calopogon tuberosus, Hydrocotyle ranunculoides, Dodecatheon meadia, Iris cristata, Phoradendron leucarpum, Utricularia cornuta, Hexastylis arifolia, Crataegus aemula, Carex pensylvanica, Crataegus austromontana, Crataegus ancisa, Calamagrostis canadensis, Ceanothus americanus, Vitis palmata, Sarracenia alabamensis, Lindera melissifolia, Crataegus diffusa, Utricularia juncea, Utricularia striata, Utricularia radiata

Freebase ID

"/guid/9202a8c04000641f80000000000265d5"

Legal Driving Age

15 years and 6 months

Age of Consent

16 years

Median Household Income

$36,424

Visited by

Andrew Jackson, Jefferson Davis, John Fogerty, Hernando de Soto

Related Websites

▶ http://southernspaces.org/2006/mississippi-metaphor-state-region-and-nation-historical-imagination, http://www.upress.state.ms.us, http://www.ers.usda.gov/StateFacts/MS.htm, http://www.mississippibelieveit.com, http://www.mississippi.org,  …

http://www.visitmississippi.org, http://wikis.ala.org/godort/index.php/Mississippi, http://www.ms.gov

Attributes

geographical parents are statically known

Things Running Through

The Mississippi River

Separate From

Washington, D.C.

State Butterfly

Spicebush Swallowtail

Representative

▶ Jefferson Davis, Trent Lott, Hiram Rhodes Revels, Roger Wicker, John C. Stennis,  …

Thad Cochran, Blanche Bruce, James Eastland, Adelbert Ames, Theodore G. Bilbo, Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar, Robert J. Walker, James K. Vardaman, James L. Alcorn, Pat Harrison, Albert G. Brown, Henry S. Foote, George Poindexter, Stephen Adams, David Holmes, LeRoy Percy, John Sharp Williams, Wall Doxey, James Z. George, Robert H. Adams, John J. McRae, Anselm J. McLaurin, Walter Leake, Thomas Buck Reed, Powhatan Ellis, Edward C. Walthall, James F. Trotter, Hubert D. Stephens, Jesse Speight, Hernando Money, Henry R. Pease, John Black, James Gordon, Thomas Hill Williams, John Henderson, Joseph W. Chalmers, Thomas Hickman Williams, William V. Sullivan

Unemployment

9.7%

State Bird

Northern Mockingbird

Senator

Roger Wicker, Thad Cochran

OpenCyc ID

"Mx4rvVkBTpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA"

DBPedia URI

http://dbpedia.org/resource/Mississippi

State Motto

"Virtute et armis"

Newspapers

▶ The Clarion-Ledger, The Sun Herald, Reflector, The Meridian Star, The Daily Mississippian,  …

Jackson Advocate, Daily Corinthian, The Columbus Packet, The Commercial Dispatch, Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, Mississippi Business Journal, Mississippi Business Journal, The Collegian, The Cleveland News Leader, Delta Democrat Times, Woodville Republican

Raised

Mark Twain, Haley Barbour, Luke Slater

Aliases

"at mississippi", "in mississippi", "mississippi"

Fips State Code

"28"

Black Population

1,097,462

White Population

1,784,587

Male Population

1,431,719

Female Population

1,520,277

Asian Population

25,726

Hispanic Population

27,597

Average Household Income

$37,818

Mean House Value

$71,400

Jurisdiction

Mississippi Department of Agriculture and Commerce

Freebase Primary MID

"/m/04tgp"

Founded here

Jackson State University