Our Mississippi car license tags (some of y'all call 'em license plates) used to carry the slogan" The Hospitality State." That's quickly falling by the wayside, I'm so sorrry to say. Folks are becoming as inhospitable here in the deep south as any much larger metropolitan area in the US.

There was an article in the paper written by a middle aged woman about an incident at a popular walking track in Hattiesburg. People go there  to ride bikes, golfcarts, walk, and jog. She said she was taking her morning walk and heard a runner coming up behind her, so she moved to one side. Her shoe caught in a crack or something, and she fell flat on her face.

Incredibly, the runner just kept running and leapt over her lying there. She says she slowly got to her feet, bruised and sore. Other walkers looked askance at her--none offered assistance or asked what was the matter, as she limped to her car. This is not the South I was raised in. These are not the kind of people I used to know. We have become the "Inhospitable State."         susil

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