The Mississippi (State)

History

The name of the State comes from the Indian who means " large fleuve".

1699 : The first permanent French colony in Louisiana is established with Biloxi under the direction of Pierre Moyne, Sieur d' Iberville.
1720 : The capital of the French Louisiana is transferred from Mobile to Biloxi. Biloxi was the capital of French Louisiana of 1720 with 1723. The capital of French Louisiana is transferred to La Nouvelle-Orléans in 1723.
1763 : The Louisiana in the east of the river of the the Mississippi is yielded to the Great Britain.
1798 : organization of the territory of the Mississippi starting from territories yielded by the Georgia and the South Carolina and increased later by the additional ground addition.
December 10th 1817: The Mississippi is the twentieth State to integrate the union of the the United States of America. It is a Slave state. (See Slavery)
January 9th 1861: The Mississippi is the second State to make secession and to join the Confédération of the American States.
February 23rd 1870: The Mississippi is reinstated in the Union.
1948 : Segregationist state, the voters of the Mississippi choose the Dixiecrat Strom Thurmond at the time of the elections presidential of 1948.
1964 : During “the summer of freedom”, thousands of young people go in the segregationist South to help the blacks to be registered on the electoral rolls. June 21st, James Chaney, young a 21 years black, joined by two white comrades of the State of New York, Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman, are stopped under a futile pretext by the police force of the borough of Philadelphia.Ils are retained then released in middle of the night to fall into a ambush of the Ku Klux Klan. Their sifted bodies of balls, carrying traces of lynching, will be discovered 44 days later by FBI. Nearly a score of members of Klan, whose Edgar Ray Killen, then put out of cause, will be challenged but only seven people finally condemned in 1967 to custodial sentences, not exceeding six years, for " violation of the rights civiques".
1966 : The Mississippi is the last State to be put an end to prohibition.
1969: The Camille Hurricane kills 248 people in the Mississippi
1995: The Mississippi is the last State to ratify the thirteenth amendment prohibiting the Esclavage.
2001 : By Referendum, the voters of the State choose to 65% to keep the confederated emblem, the " Southern Cross" (or Cross of saint Andre), on the flag of the Mississippi.
2004 : An constitutional amendment prohibiting the Homosexual marriage or any form of civil union of this kind is submitted to Référendum and is approved by 86% of the voters of the Mississippi.
2005 : Edgar Ray Killen, the person in charge of the massacre in 1964 of Chaney, Schwerner and Goodman, finally is recognized guilty and condemned. The Hurricane Katrina devastation south of the State of which the town of Biloxi.

Geography

Of a surface of 123 515 km ², the Mississippi are populated of 2 844 658 inhabitants (2000).

The capital of the Mississippi and the principal city are Jackson.

Main cities

Policy

The Mississippi east at the same time one of the most preserving States and poorest of the the United States.

The Mississippi is historically a bastion of the segregation nists of the south (favorable to the racial Discrimination) and so known under the name of Dixiecrat S owing to the fact that they are politically represented by the Democratic party for the right of the States, a populist local tendency of the democratic party.

The laws on the Civic right in the Sixties put a term at the local domination of the democratic party, given up gradually by the fundamentalist Christians and the white conservatives.

The Mississippi is today a national Christian line bastion and Republican party although locally, the democratic party, dominated by the populist ones, still manages to maintain its prevalence.

Democratic bastion with the republican bastion for the presidential elections

Of 1876 with 1944, the Mississippi granted its votes only to the candidates democratic S with average scores seldom lower than 90% of the voices

In 1948, the voters of the Mississippi make a first incartade while preferring to vote to 87,17% their votes for Dixiecrat Strom Thurmond against 10,09% with the democratic president Harry Truman and 2,62% with the republican candidate Thomas Dewey.

After a more modest return in the democratic bosom to the presidential elections of 1952 and 1956, they refused to choose between the democrat and the republican with the elections of 1960.

In 1964, the conservative Barry Goldwater is the first republican to carry the State with the historical score of 87,14% compared with 12,86% with Lyndon Johnson, re-elected nationally.

In 1968, the segregationist democrat George Wallace carried 63,23% of the votes in front of the democratic candidate Hubert Humphrey (23,02%) and the republican Richard Nixon (13,52%).

No democratic candidate carried it with the presidential elections since Jimmy Carter in 1976.

At the time of the presidential election of 2004, the president George W. Bush carried it with 59,45% of the voices compared with 39,73% with the democratic candidate John Kerry.

The Mississippi is regarded as politically lost today for many years for the democrats.

A State a long time with sole party

The continuations of the civil war and the occupation Yankee left a deep resentment among inhabitants of the Mississippi against the northerners and all that of approach to be started with the Republican party of Lincoln. Thus, during 116 years, of 1876 with 1992, the direction of the State will not know any political alternation and will be under the domination of a mode of sole party, that of the democratic party whose local members will be very with turn called Southern Democrats then Dixiecrats , in fact of the segregationist, populist or preserving democrats.

It will be necessary to wait the years 1970 so that the first republicans (often of former democrats as the Trent Lott) carry national headquarters and buildings and 1992 so that a republican governor is elected.

Since 2004, the governor is the republican Halley Barbour and the lieutenant-governor Amy Tuck (former democrat passed to the republicans in 2002). Four of the six other elected stations of the executive are held by democrats.

The legislature of the State is made up of a senate and a room of the representatives with democratic majority. At the time of the legislature 2007-2008, the room of the representatives of 122 members is dominated by 74 democrats and the senate of 52 members by 27 democrats.

At the federal level, in 2007, the Mississippi is represented with the Sénat of the United States by the republicans the Trent Lott and Thad Cochran and by two democrats and two republicans with Chambre of the Representatives.

Economy

Company

The Mississippi remains one of the poorest States and most agricultural and rural of the States-unis.Malgré l´obtention of the civic rights for Afro-américians the communautarism exists well de facto.

Culture

Ensignement

Alcorn State University
Belhaven College
Blue Mountain College
Copiah-Lincoln Community College
Delta State University
Central East Community College
Hinds Community College
Holmes Community College
Itawamba Community College
Jackson State University
Magniolia Bible College
Millsaps College
the Mississippi College
the Mississippi GULF Coast Community College
the Mississippi State University
the Mississippi University for Women
the Mississippi Valley State University
Northeast the Mississippi Community College
Reformed Theological Seminary
Rust College
Tougaloo College
University off the Mississippi - Medical Center
University off the Mississippi - Oxford
University off Southern the Mississippi
Wesley Biblical Seminary
Wesley College
William Carey College

See too

Counties of the State of the Mississippi
Hurricane Katrina

External bonds

Beats-smg: Mėsėsėpė (valstėje) Simple: The Mississippi Zh-min-nan: The Mississippi

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