Maggie McNeill: I grew up in the New Orleans area and had lots of friends & relatives in Mississippi. It is indeed a deeply fucked-up place.

Every day there's another headline about Mississippi, I think back to the time I called it a "deeply messed up place" on Twitter (I think after news broke about a vicious cop gang), and a local editor was like, "uhhh miss me with that regional privilege."

I've done reporting in and about Mississippi for 20 years. I've met some incredibly kind, principled, and genuine people there. It's also a deeply fucked up place.

(as most of the kind, principled, and genuine people will tell you)

I grew up in the New Orleans area and had lots of friends & relatives in Mississippi. It is indeed a deeply fucked-up place.

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