Mississippi is a state in the Deep South region of the United States. It is the 32nd largest and 34th-most populous of the 50 U.S. states. In 2010, 37. 3% of Mississippi’s population was African American, the highest percentage of any state.
About Mississippi in brief
Mississippi is a state in the Deep South region of the United States. It is the 32nd largest and 34th-most populous of the 50 U.S. states. The state’s name is derived from the Mississippi River, which flows along and defines its western boundary. In 2010, 37. 3% of Mississippi’s population was African American, the highest percentage of any state. Mississippi was the site of many prominent events during the civil rights movement, including the Ole Miss riot of 1962 by white students objecting to desegregation, the 1963 assassination of Medgar Evers, and the 1964 Freedom Summer murders of three activists working on voting rights. It has a humid subtropical climate with long, hot and humid summers and short, mild winters. Mississippi is entirely composed of lowlands, with the highest point being Woodall Mountain, in the foothills of the Cumberland Mountains, 807 ft above sea level. The lowest point is sea level at the Gulf Coast at the state’s mean elevation of 300 ft. The temperature varies little in the statewide summer; however, the inland portion of the Mississippi Sound is significantly warmer than the coastal region. The northwest remainder of the state consists of Mississippi Delta, a section of Mississippi Alluvial Plain. The coastline includes large bays at Bay St. Louis, Biloxi, and Pascagoula. The Gulf of Mexico proper is separated from the shallow Mississippi Sound by the Mississippi Sea. Areas under the management of the National Park Service include: Mississippi City, Gulfport, and Vicksburg.
The region has rich, partly made up of silt which had been regularly deposited by the flood waters of the river. The Mississippi River is narrow south and widens north of Vickssburg. The river is one of the main sources of drinking water in the state. It also supplies drinking water to the Mississippi Delta and the Mississippi Gulf Coast. The largest lakes in Mississippi are Ross Barnett Reservoir, Arkabutla, Sardis, and Grenada. The biggest lake in Mississippi is Sardis Lake, which is home to the largest freshwater lake in the world, the largest of which is the Red River. Mississippi City has a population of at least 20,000, but fewer than 50,000 people in the metro area. The average annual temperature is 81°F in July and about 42 F in January. Mississippi’s highest point is 807 feet above sea level adjacent to the Cumberlands Plateau; the lowest is the gulf of Mexico. The northeast is a region of fertile black earth uplands, a geology that extend into the Alabama Black Belt. In addition to its namesake, major rivers in Mississippi include the Big Black River, the Pearl River and the Yazoo River. It was one of seven original Confederate States, which constituted the largest slaveholding states in the nation. After the Civil War, it was restored to the Union on February 23, 1870. Until the Great Migration of the 1930s, African Americans were a majority of Mississippi’s population.
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