How to Know if You are a True Mississippian

How to tell if you are a true Mississippian:

1.     Your idea of a traffic jam is ten cars waiting to pass a tractor on the highway.
2.     "Vacation" means going to a family reunion.
3.     You've seen all the biggest bands ten years after they were popular.
4.     You measure distance in minutes.
5.     You know several people who have hit a deer.
6.     Your school classes were canceled because the weather was too cold.
7.     Your school classes were canceled because the weather was too hot.
8.     You've ever had to switch from "heat" to "A/C" in the same day.
9.     You think ethanol makes your truck "run a lot better."
10.     Stores don't have bags; they have sacks.
11.     Stores don't have carts; they have buggies.
12.     You know if another Mississippian is from South, Middle or North Mississippi as soon as they open their mouth.
13.     You see a car running in the parking lot at the store with no one in it.
14.     You use "fix" as a verb." Example: I'm fixing to go to the store.
15.     All the festivals across the state are named after a fruit, a vegetable or animal.
16.     You install security lights on your house and garage and leave both doors Unlocked.
17.    You think of the major four food groups as beef, pork, beer and Chicken.
18.    You carry jumper cables in your car...for your own car.
19.    You know what "cow tipping" and "snipe hunting" are.
20.    You only know four spices: salt, pepper, ketchup and Tabasco.
21.    A carbonated soft drink isn't a soda or cola. It is "COKE," regardless of what flavor it is.
22.    Going to Wal-Mart is a favorite past time known as "goin' Walmartin" or "goin' da' Wally World."
23.    The local paper covers national news on one page, and requires six pages for sports.
24.    You think deer season is a national holiday.
25.    You know which leaves make good toilet paper.
26.    You find 90 degrees Fahrenheit "a little warm."
27.    You know all four seasons: Almost Summer, Summer, Still Summer and Christmas.
28.    You actually get these jokes.

* I can totally related to #27. It is so very HOT in the South this year!!

Heritage and Hate at Ole Miss

Wonderful article from The Daily Beast about hate and racism at Ole Miss (The University of Mississippi). It is sad that the schools in Mississippi are still as racist as they are. Actually it's sad that people are as racist as they are.

Will the day ever come when one person looks as another and does not see a black, white, gay, straight, Christian, Muslim, atheist, transgender, Hispanic, Asian (etc) person but sees simply a HUMAN BEING? Must we classify everything and then align stereotypes to those things? Must we be scared to walk down the same street as a black kid without automatically thinking they're up to no good and deserve to be shot?

The entire state of Mississippi has a racism problem and as someone who lives there I see it everyday. I'm simply lucky to have been born Caucasian in this state rather than of some other race. My hope is that someday people will not be so full of hatred for things different than they are but will appreciate the differences we have. And celebrate them. But it's hard to think that day will come when every February I have to hear how we should not have a Black History Month and every time a black is on television I have to hear "fucking niggers should all die" - and yes that actually happens. Even though people in other places don't see how it is I can tell you for sure iy is certainly very real.

Why must we spend so much energy hating people?

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/02/21/heritage-and-hate-at-ole-miss.html