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A question for Mississippi FReepers: is the Delta safe for a tourist?
Self | 9/8/'14 | Zionist Conspirator

Posted on 09/08/2014 7:44:52 AM PDT by Zionist Conspirator

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1 posted on 09/08/2014 7:44:52 AM PDT by Zionist Conspirator
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My grandmother was a cousin of Joel Chandler Harris, and we are also somehow related to Stephen Foster.

Good luck with your trip planning!


2 posted on 09/08/2014 7:48:18 AM PDT by NEMDF
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To: Zionist Conspirator

The Mississippi delta is in Louisiana.


3 posted on 09/08/2014 7:49:17 AM PDT by Wilderness Conservative
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I would recommend you call the local Sheriff and discuss your concerns with him. They are usually candid and honest.


4 posted on 09/08/2014 7:50:19 AM PDT by shalom aleichem
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To: Zionist Conspirator

Depends on your training and what you’re packin’.


5 posted on 09/08/2014 7:53:33 AM PDT by G Larry (Which of Obama's policies do you think I'd support if he were white?)
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To: Wilderness Conservative

Mississippi Delta has several meanings.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi_Delta_(disambiguation)


6 posted on 09/08/2014 7:59:35 AM PDT by Sherman Logan (Perception wins most of the battles. Reality wins ALL the wars.)
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To: shalom aleichem
I would recommend you call the local Sheriff and discuss your concerns with him. They are usually candid and honest.

This.
7 posted on 09/08/2014 8:00:37 AM PDT by 98ZJ USMC
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To: Wilderness Conservative

>> The Mississippi delta is in Louisiana. <<

Part of it, yes. The other parts are in Mississippi and Arkansas.


8 posted on 09/08/2014 8:03:35 AM PDT by Hawthorn
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To: Zionist Conspirator

Birmingham and Jackson, after dark, are body-armor and CCW zones IMHO....especially Jackson.


9 posted on 09/08/2014 8:07:29 AM PDT by DCBryan1 (No realli, moose bytes can be quite nasti!!)
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To: NEMDF
My grandmother was a cousin of Joel Chandler Harris, and we are also somehow related to Stephen Foster.

That's so great! As you may know, as an illegitimate child Harris was no friend of the Old South and wished to see it buried . . . though he inexplicably described Harriet Beecher Stowe and Uncle Tom's Cabin as defenses of slavery.

Stephen Collins Foster (a native of Pittsburgh) was a great supporter of Black American culture, as apparently was Ohio native Daniel Decatur Emmett, the writer of the song Dixie. When his song became the unofficial "national anthem" of the Confederacy he actually said he regretted writing it because it had become the anthem of treason.

Isn't it amazing that a Black minstrel song was adopted by "racist rednecks" as "their" anthem while Blacks and their "supporters" hate it?

Good luck with your trip planning!

Thank you.

10 posted on 09/08/2014 8:11:28 AM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (Throne and Altar! [In Jerusalem!!!])
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The Mississippi delta is in Louisiana.

Excuse me. I meant the "Mississippi Alluvial Plain."

11 posted on 09/08/2014 8:12:17 AM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (Throne and Altar! [In Jerusalem!!!])
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My heritage is Scots-Irish and I’m from Memphis. I used to live near that Kroger where the beating happened and I pass it all the time. In fact, I was in that lot a few hours before the incident. My cousin is a doctor who lives in a mansion mere blocks away. I don’t think of that as a particularly dangerous area, but there is a buffet pizza place that often attracts a sketchy crowd. I’ve been concerned about Memphis crime for years, so I moved my family just south of Memphis to a North Mississippi suburb. I travel throughout the Delta all the time. I just got back from a visiting the blues museum in Clarksdale. I’m much more concerned in certain parts of Memphis than I am the Delta. In my experience, rural blacks are quite different from their urban counterparts. That said, I always carry a pistol and I am careful where I stop. I’m not scared of black people. I interact with them every day. I am, however, cautious around groups of young black people.


12 posted on 09/08/2014 8:15:59 AM PDT by .45 Long Colt
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Thank you for your response. It is much appreciated and is exactly the kind of information I was looking for.

Would it be dangerous to pull into a convenience store for dinner?

13 posted on 09/08/2014 8:30:13 AM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (Throne and Altar! [In Jerusalem!!!])
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Birmingham and Jackson, after dark, are body-armor and CCW zones IMHO....especially Jackson.

As I said, I don't plan going near a large city.

Isn't a shame what we've come to in this country?

14 posted on 09/08/2014 8:32:52 AM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (Throne and Altar! [In Jerusalem!!!])
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"As I said, I don't plan going near a large city."

Depends on what constitutes a large city.

The population of Ferguson Missouri, is slightly over 21,000...Just Saying!

15 posted on 09/08/2014 8:48:08 AM PDT by PoloSec ( Believe the Gospel: how that Christ died for our sins, was buried and rose again)
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A few years ago we traveled in that area.

I did not like Memphis and certainly didn't feel safe there - heck they even had guides from the Tourist Bureau who would walk with you to the next attraction.

A sharp contrast was Vicksburg where we went to blues bars frequented by the locals and were treated in a very friendly manner.

If you are driving around there, try to get to the Best Fried Chicken in the US - amazing taste -

https://plus.google.com/108531441845369876044/about?gl=us&hl=en

16 posted on 09/08/2014 8:48:40 AM PDT by az_gila
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To: Zionist Conspirator; paintriot; Lil Flower; Malichi; WXRGina; duffee; onyx; DrewsMum; Tupelo; ...

Mississippi ping


17 posted on 09/08/2014 8:52:02 AM PDT by WKB
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To: Zionist Conspirator

I have been living near Yazoo City for 64 years. I have never feared for my life outside of Jackson proper.
Follow the Blues Trail Markers during the day light hours.


18 posted on 09/08/2014 8:57:58 AM PDT by WKB
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I have lived in Memphis for over 40 years. It is a wonderful city. I am sick and tired of all of this paranoia being dumped on us by people who don’t have a clue. There is evil everywhere. You can’t live your life in constant fear, or you will have no life at all.


19 posted on 09/08/2014 9:25:17 AM PDT by Coldwater Creek
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To: WKB; Black Agnes; dixiechick2000; mrsmel; CatherineofAragon

It depends.

Last month I was in Greenville ...parts are spooky

Same time at Luscos in Greenwood....no issues....but security abounds

Stopped in Tchula...very African...at night...helped with drunk black man hit by car on 49 in a crowd of several hundred blacks on a Friday eve around 10

Felt zero hostility outnumbered 200-1

The Mississippi delta now feels like Africa or Haiti....for sure darkest region of the country

Whites should be smart....it aint 1950 anymore

Its just overwhelmed....whites have left...most plantations now corporate

Still rural southern blacks are without question least threatening of any in the USA

And any gas station selling fried chicken is bound to be damn sure worth buying..


20 posted on 09/08/2014 12:18:14 PM PDT by wardaddy (Ferguson MO...but i thought blacks went north to escape the racism of mean ol southerners)
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