40 years ago it was. 35 was trending down. Look who was elected then when it started to turn.
Lumumba pleads Guilty
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40 years ago is 1986.
Tunica County apparently had a 20% unemployment rate that year...see below.
The info below is pasted from Google because citing sources on my own for this sort of thing is unnecessary.
It's equal to having to prove the world is a globe.
No, the Mississippi Delta was not thriving in the 1980s. The decade was defined by severe economic decline, massive job losses in agriculture and manufacturing, and soaring poverty rates. [1, 2, 3]
The region suffered from a perfect storm of economic challenges during this period: []
- Agricultural Consolidation: Innovations in farming and increased mechanization drastically reduced the need for manual farm labor. Large tracts of land were consolidated into fewer hands, leaving rural residents without their traditional livelihood. [1, 2, 3]
- Manufacturing Collapse: Competition from low-wage foreign markets caused regional manufacturing jobs to fall by half during the 1980s. [1]
- Extreme Poverty: Without jobs, the region's economy bottomed out. In 1986, Tunica County—one of the poorest in the Delta—faced an unemployment rate of nearly 20%. [1, 2]
As if Jim Eastland didn't run the Delta as a political boss for 30 or 40 years before my time and provide a quality template for how to go about it.
Here’s how to settle this argument.
let’s get Kramer to bring the Kramer Reality tour short bus down to Jackson and lead everyone in this thread up to tour Jackson and….if the bus isn’t shot up and still has all four tires after an in depth look at Jacktown, roll up to the delta for a first hand look. I think it would be an eye opener for those who move out of state and all of the sudden find themselves smarter and morally superior.
As for jobs and where they went, look no further than Bill Clinton and the genius of NAFTA. When I graduated high school in 88 there were 8 thriving plants in my town (not in delta). I came back in 93 and took my first job in the manufacturing sector. By 95 all but two of these plants had closed. The only thing that changed was the signing of NAFTA and manufacturing moving to Mexico.
Jackson is a textbook story of bad leadership. Both politically and the business world has had it share too.
let’s get Kramer to bring the Kramer Reality tour short bus down to Jackson and lead everyone in this thread up to tour Jackson and….if the bus isn’t shot up and still has all four tires after an in depth look at Jacktown, roll up to the delta for a first hand look. I think it would be an eye opener for those who move out of state and all of the sudden find themselves smarter and morally superior.
As for jobs and where they went, look no further than Bill Clinton and the genius of NAFTA. When I graduated high school in 88 there were 8 thriving plants in my town (not in delta). I came back in 93 and took my first job in the manufacturing sector. By 95 all but two of these plants had closed. The only thing that changed was the signing of NAFTA and manufacturing moving to Mexico.
Jackson is a textbook story of bad leadership. Both politically and the business world has had it share too.
The problem there is there is no "like" in this. If he's running a criminal scheme as the top guy of hundreds of people, with no one taking him down.....then you are describing a genius mob boss.
If you want to just say he's taking advantage of his position like most other Congressshitters, then thats another story (and I wouldn't argue with it).
No. Im only objecting to a ridiculous portrayl of BT. I have stated and will again that he's most likely not on the up and up, and an overall negative influence.
I always have to remember that "the Delta" as the agricultural/economic region we see today is only 150 years old or so. Basically, by the time that full agricultural development was finished in the 1930's, agricutural tech was basically two generations away from displacing the workforce. That's a short time-frame to wipe out a region's entire economic base.
If the entire region was founded on agriculture and that particular industry no longer requires a lot of labor, there's not going to be opportunity. It's not a race issue. There's literally nothing to do in the Delta that can't be developed in other places in America that don't have such an undiversified economy. Other than the towns along the river, there's not much reason for the diffuse population across the region.
Poor white people with nothing to do and no opportunity act just like poor black people with nothing to do and no opportunity. Anybody can make a race issue out of it, but at the end of the day there's nothing for anyone except for the owners and administrators of factory farms to do there. And more of those people are doing that work remotely now anyway.
Let it return to forest and bottom land, and then steward that for hunting, tourism, etc.
If the entire region was founded on agriculture and that particular industry no longer requires a lot of labor, there's not going to be opportunity. It's not a race issue. There's literally nothing to do in the Delta that can't be developed in other places in America that don't have such an undiversified economy. Other than the towns along the river, there's not much reason for the diffuse population across the region.
Poor white people with nothing to do and no opportunity act just like poor black people with nothing to do and no opportunity. Anybody can make a race issue out of it, but at the end of the day there's nothing for anyone except for the owners and administrators of factory farms to do there. And more of those people are doing that work remotely now anyway.
Let it return to forest and bottom land, and then steward that for hunting, tourism, etc.
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