everything you want to know

1. Dontia Durham
12/6/11
1st pd.

2. Mississippi
Mississippi takes its name
from the Mississippi River,
which runs along the state's
western border. The Indians
called the river the "Father
of Waters." The word
"Mississippi" probably
comes from "mici zibi," a
Chippewa Indian word
meaning "great river" or
"gathering-in of all the
waters." Mississippi is
nicknamed the "Magnolia
State" because of its
beautiful magnolia trees.
Mississippi residents are
sometimes called
"Mudcats," after the catfish
found in the state's streams.

3. Capital

4. State Seal
When Mississippi gained statehood in
1817, it decided to use the seal that it had
been using since 1798 when Mississippi was
still a territory. And even today, this is
Mississippi's Great Seal. The design of the
seal is based upon the American eagle of
the national arms.
The eagle is proudly positioned in the center
of the seal, with its wings spread wide and
its head held high. A bunting of stars and
stripes adorns its chest. In its talons, the
eagle grasps an olive branch symbolizing a
desire for peace and a quiver of arrows
representing the power to wage war. The
outer circle of the seal holds the words "The
Great Seal of the State of Mississippi".

5. State Flag
The official state flag of Mississippi was adopted in 1894, replacing the
older Magnolia Flag (which had been adopted in 1861, after Mississippi
seceded from the union). Today's Mississippi state flag has a small
Confederate Battle Flag in the upper left corner (it is also called the
"union square"). There are thirteen white stars on a St. Andrew's Cross,
and horizontal blue, white and red stripes.

6. State Bird
Found in all sections of
Mississippi, the cheerful Mockingbird
was selected as the official State Bird
by the Women's Federated Clubs and
by the State Legislature in 1944.

7. State Flower & Tree
“Magnolia”

8. Area
Mississippi is an East South
Central state bordered by
Tennessee to the north,
Alabama to the east,
Mexico to the west, and the
Gulf of Mexico to the south.
48,434 square miles
.Mississippi is the 32nd
biggest state in the USA]

9. Elevation
• This elevation map of
Mississippi illustrates the
number of feet or meters the
state rises above sea level.
As you can see, virtually all of
Mississippi resides at, or less
than 500 feet above, sea
level. In the northeast, sandy
hills rise above 500 feet.
• Mississippi's low point is sea
level at the Gulf of Mexico.
• Only 806 feet above sea
level, Woodall Mountain, in
Tishomingo County, is the
highest point in Mississippi.
Woodall Mountain is located
about 17 miles southeast of
Corinth and five miles

10. Population
• 2010 resident population: 2,967,297
[Mississippi is the 31st most populous
state in the USA]
Name for Residents - Mississippians

11. Economy
• Mississippi is traditionally one of the more rural states in the Union; not until 1965
did manufacturing take over as the leading revenue-producing sector of its
economy. In 2000, Mississippi ranked third in the nation in the production of
cotton, but soil erosion resulting from over cultivation and the destruction caused
by the boll weevil have led to the increased agricultural diversification. The other
most important crops are rice and soybeans. Today broiler chicken
production, aquaculture (chiefly catfish raising), and dairying are increasingly
important. The state's most valuable mineral resources, petroleum and natural
gas, have been developed only since the 1930s. Industry has grown rapidly with
the development of oil resources and has been helped by the Tennessee Valley
Authority and by a state program to balance agriculture with industry, under
which many communities have subsidized and attracted new industries. Revenue
from industrial products, including chemicals, plastics, foods, and wood
products, have exceeded those from agriculture in recent years. On the Gulf
coast there is a profitable fishing and seafood processing industry, and gambling
is important along the Gulf Coast and in long impoverished Tunica County, in the
northwest. There are military air facilities at Columbus, Biloxi, and Meridian, as
well as the Stennis Space Flight Center at Bay St. Louis. The state's per capita
income, however, has been among the lowest in the nation for decades.

12. Statehood
• the original Mississippi Territory created by
the U.S. Congress in 1798 was a strip of land
extending about 100 miles (160 km) north to
south and from the Mississippi River to the
Chattahoochee on the Georgia border. The
territory was increased in 1804 and 1812 to
reach from Tennessee to the Gulf of Mexico.
In 1817 the western part achieved statehood
as Mississippi (the eastern part became the
state of Alabama in 1819). Natchez, the first
territorial capital, was replaced in 1802 by
nearby Washington, which in turn was
replaced by Jackson in 1822.

13. Abbreviation

14. State Motto
Virtute et Armis
(By Valor and Arms)

15. Government
Senators : Thad Cochran (class 1) , Roger
Wicker(class 2)
Representatives : Travis Childers, Bennie
Thompson, Charles Pickering ,Gene
Taylor
6 Electoral Votes
82 Counties

16. State Song
With waving flags and hip-hoo-rays,
Let cymbals crash and let bells ring
'Cause here's one song I'm proud to sing.
Go, Mississippi, keep rolling along,
Go, Mississippi, you cannot go wrong,
Go, Mississippi, we're singing your song,
M-I-S-S-I-S-S-I-P-P-I
Go, Mississippi, you're on the right track,
Go, Mississippi, and this is a fact,
Go, Mississippi, you'll never look back,
M-I-S-S-I-S-S-I-P-P-I
Go, Mississippi, straight down the line,
Go, Mississippi, ev'rything's fine,
Go, MIssissippi, it's your state and mine,
M-I-S-S-I-S-S-I-P-P-I
Go, Mississippi, continue to roll,
Go, Mississippi, the top is the goal,
Go, Mississippi, you'll have and you'll hold,
M-I-S-S-I-S-S-I-P-P-I
Go, Mississippi, get up and go,
Go, Mississippi, let the world know,
That our Mississippi is leading the show,
M-I-S-S-I-S-S-I-P-P-I