Jackson Jambalaya

There is poverty because the dems keep them dependent on the govt. dole, causing them to keep voting for those same dems - we're looking at you Bennie.

I live in S Mississippi. As a taxpayer, why should I bear the cost of government programs “ to bring back wealth and prosperity” to that area of the state?

This area of MS will NEVER regain wealth and prosperity. It’s sad that there are fools who think it will.

If bad, then Dem.
If good, then Repub.
Repeat with no further thought.

Why? So Bennie can continue to get elected.

All the "river counties" are identical.

I lived in Natchez/Adams County for about 20 years,.
Until then, I had never witnessed so much ignorance among voters in my life.

And these same folks wonder why all industry has left and no new industry is willing to move in.



And they wonder why the old left

@11:59 it actually goes both ways depending on who you vote for.

Bill Crawford it's the people who live there that make it what it is. The way you live, who you vote into office, what you give to your community, whether you obey the laws or not, etc. There's always going to be some people who expect better who will leave a place where most of the voters are stupid and making the community a nightmare for others.

So much to unpack here and Mr. Crawford is really just wanting to disparage Republicans. No mention of how many years Democrats ran the state since 1960. However, let’s just look at one of the reasons many of these counties would have lost population. Farming. The size of farms has increased as has the size of equipment. This translates to fewer farmers and fewer workers needed on the farm. Nothing to do with politics.
Another reason is farmers growing corn instead of cotton. With corn you don’t need a gin or a compress, that employed many people. This change might have some politics involved since corn is used to make ethanol.
There are many other reasons to consider, so I’ll let others contribute.

Billy is a typical Democrat. He blames someone's blight on others & then ask for another government program funded by others who are not at fault.

Apparently, there's a good living, in writing about Southern Pathos, attributing that pathos to everything except the one thing we're not allowed to name or blame. The Kremlin (plus various other traditional enemies of the Western Democracies, eager to see the Western Peoples eliminated, as punishment for turning away from "The One True Way" - whichever "way" that is), through various Useful Idiots - mostly dumpy, misfit girls from rich Protestant families (thanks, Eleanor!), sociopathic misfit boys (thanks, Franklin!), and "church leadership" (Grundtvigian Lutheranism - which shaped the social mores of America's Upper Midwest - works AGAINST the interests of Scandinavians - with other sects, especially Methodism, trotting along behind - each sect competing to see which can be a bigger doormat for the world)...

...The Kremlin has had a solid century, to cause its useful idiots to outlaw the saying of certain things.

But there's plenty of work, in naming everything else. There's way more work, in naming anything and everything - something new to blame, around every bend - than to name that one same-old thing. That prohibition WORKS AS ITS OWN REWARDS SYSTEM. It's a well that'll never run dry. And Bill Crawford's doing a great job, perpetually pumping stuff up from that well, in a most righteous way!

10:41 AM Every farmer in the Delta has been federally subsidized since the 1930s. Some of them receive as much welfare money as several thousand households.

@8:12, they grow out food, not more welfare babies. Taxes should be used for useful not useless things.

It’s not a bad thing that these areas are depopulating. There is nothing for people to do except farm, and one man can do what dozens used to. Fewer people there should mean fewer people sitting around

have that happy talker named ''CARSWELL'' read these stats.

10;41 is quite correct. the system in the ms delta is to ensure that landowning farmers get their millions in subsidies and the ''poor '' get their welfare.

little history lesson.............welfare for the rich has always existed;

welfare for the poor has existed since about the 1960s;

welfare for the middle class has never existed.

the stats quoted perfectly fit bennie thompsons agenda. thats why bennie will be in washington DC till he croaks.

some of the most pathetic people in the world sit atop some of the most fertile land in the world ,and they would never go plant themselves a garden.

why break a sweat when you can get it for free.

Regarding Crop Subsidies--Farmers sometimes recieve subsidies from the government because the government manipulates crop prices below cost to produce then rebate the farmers so they can usually stay in business. No one gets rich off subsidies.

10:10: I’m one of those pathetic people sitting on top of the most fertile (Delta) land in the world. After 90 years of farming the same land, our family finally threw in the towel last year. The cost of production simply far exceeded revenue. We were efficient operators. You should rent you some land (there is plenty available) and buy you a couple of those $600K tractors and $800K combines. Then you could be sitting on top of the world on some really fertile land.

to 11:30..........whenever i hear medical doctors and big delta land owners bitch, moan, cry , and complain about money i just have to laugh.

10:04, landowning farmers, ARE 'Middle Class'. Some are 'Lower Middle Class', some are 'Middle-of-the-Middle-Class', and some are 'Upper Middle Class'. In French, it's expressed, 'petite bourgeoisie', 'moyenne bourgeoisie', 'grande bourgeoisie', 'haute bourgeoisie' and 'ancienne bourgeoisie'. (Karl Marx and his acolytes used the French terms, even though they came to be written in Cyrillic, or a more ancient alphabet).

So, to whatever extent farm subsidies are "Welfare", they constitute "Welfare for the Middle Class".

I would point-out, that "millions in subsidies" do not equal millions in PROFIT. Subsidies are not "free money" the farmer gets to take to the bank. Frequently, those subsidies are not sufficient for farming corporations to realize ANY profit. Frequently, even for farming concerns which manage to remain in-business, there are years of LOSSES. I'm wondering whether you're being deliberately obtuse, toward the service of some agenda, or if you genuinely fail to grasp the nature of international trade, as it relates to commodities.

1:18: Disregarding your jealousy of land ownership, the largest economic driver of the Delta is in serious trouble. This will not help curb the depopulation trend that Bill Crawford refers to in his article.

11:30, I'm suspecting that you work for one of the ULTRA-GIANT entities snapping-up American farmland. Demonizing and thus isolating victims, is a common practice among predatory entities. You're being paid to demonize.

2:02 says that farming is not profitable.
he even uses some of those big , bad capitol letters. he must be a real tough guy.

we'll then, tell me this tough guy, if farming isn't profitable , why is the entire mississippi delta from memphis to vicksburg under cultivation?

5:38: Nope. Family farm. My son and I.

I'm a grandmother. 2:02, here. ...a very TOUGH grandmother. And I didn't say that farming isn't profitable. Don't misquote me. Third-rate attorneys have tried that cheap trick, in court, and have regretted ever being born.

As for your absurd question, it will not serve to disprove the statement you attribute to me (a statement I did not make). You're incapable of refuting even your own spurious claims.