Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/12/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 04:42 PM 12/5/2006, you wrote: >Philippe, the sad thing is that a lot has not changed in the Delta. Nobody >chops cotton anymore, but the poverty is still rampant. Well, the shotgun >shacks are mostly ruins now so I guess some progress. > >Don Don - Our newspaper had a lead article today about Mississippi's newest campaign to use all of the denigrating remarks that everybody makes about Mississippi and turn them around to advertise Mississippi. For example: "Most people in Mississippi can read and some can even write." with photos of Faulkner, Eudora Welty, John Grisham. "Most people in Mississippi wear shoes and some even wear cleats" with photos of professional athletes from Mississippi. I think it's a brilliant idea. Growing up in Alabama, we always heard "Thank goodness for Mississippi" Otherwise, Alabama would have been 50th in all surveys! All of this was started because some congressman said, "Why would anybody ever want to live in Mississippi!" I think we should keep the secrets of the joys of living in the South to ourselves. It's already crowded enough with refugees from the North. Sonny is doing a terrible disservice showing everybody how wonderful life is in Louisiana! :-) Tina Tina Manley, ASMP, NPPA http://www.tinamanley.com