Slavery and cotton production became synonymous with the Southern economy and Mississippi. Since the Mississippi Delta was the last area of the South to be settled, after the Civil War, the state ...

Some Mississippi State coaches have a rivalry with Texas Texas and Mississippi State haven't played each other since the 1999 Cotton Bowl ... And just like Georgia, Mississippi State has a ...

Eager for land to raise cotton, the settlers pressured the ... as well as parts of Georgia, Tennessee, Mississippi, Kentucky and North Carolina. This was a period of voluntary Indian migration ...