| > Is it possible that maybe Mississippi.... isn't terrible Pretty much. Mississippi does have significant issues (it's HDI [0] is significantly lower than anywhere else in the UK or US), but is comparable to peers in Metropolitan France [1] such as Normandy, Lorraine, and Picardy, as well as several regions of Italy [2]. Basically, not great but also not some third world despair of darkness. Most likely, if a deeper subnational analysis was done of Mississippi, there would be a stark difference in HDIs between the unindustrialized Delta and industrialized North and Gulf Coast. That said, at least it's been decades since Mississippi has seen a race riot where rioters were purposely burning black people's houses like what we saw in Belfast last night [3]. Plenty of Brits need to do some soul searching. There's a reason why even despite Trump, everyone who is eligible for an O1 tries to come to the US over London. Comparing the UK with Mississippi based on GDP per Capita is facetious, but the UK is similar to Mississippi in many other ways. [0] - https://globaldatalab.org/shdi/table/shdi/USA+GBR/?levels=1+... [1] - https://globaldatalab.org/shdi/table/shdi/FRA/?levels=1+4&ye... [2] - https://globaldatalab.org/shdi/table/shdi/ITA/?levels=1+4&ye... [3] - https://time.com/article/2026/06/10/belfast-protests-erupt-k... |
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