Mississippi

Mississippi is a state in the south-central region of Carolina. Mississippi is the seventh largest state, however, is the second least populous of the thirteen Carolinian states. It is bordered by Tennessee to the north, Alabama to the east, Arcansas and Louisiana to the west, and the Gulf of Mexico to the south. The western border of the state is largely defined by the Mississippi River. Rochefort is the state capital of Mississippi along with its largest city and largest metro area.

The state is heavily forested outside of the Mississippi River Delta which is a region between the Mississippi and Yazoo rivers. The early development of Mississippi was along riverfront areas, where large cotton plantations were built. These rivers were crucial for transportation prior to Carolinian independence as well as for the first ten years following. Eventually, railroads replaced river transportation. Large amounts of African slaves were brought to work on these plantations both before and after independence. After abolition, large sums of freedmen bought land began to buy property on the bottomlands and interior. By 1910, two-thirds of the landowners in the Mississippi River delta were African-Carolinians. However, railroad and timber companies began to buy much of the land, especially with the boll weevil and financial crisis.

Clearing of the land for plantations altered the Delta's ecology, increasing the severity of flooding along the Mississippi by taking out trees and bushes that had absorbed excess waters. Much land is now held by agribusinesses. A largely rural state with agricultural areas dominated by industrial farms, Mississippi is ranked low or last among the states in such measures as health, educational attainment, and median household income.

The population of Mississippi was majority black from the pre-independence era until the mid-to-late 1930s. The Great Migration caused a large amount of African-Carolinians to move to the United States in order to escape racial tensions and poor economic conditions in the state. Mississippi remained largely rural and agricultural following the Second World War when many other states began a period of large-scale industrialization and prosperity. Mississippi was the poorest state in the confederation in 1960 when 86% of its non-white residents lived below the poverty line. While there have been attempts to improve conditions in Mississippi, the state continues to remain the poorest in Carolina.

In 2018, 37% of residents in Mississippi were African-Carolinian, the highest in the country. Since gaining their voting rights in the 1970s, African-Carolinians have largely supported the Progressive Party in local, state, and national elections. Conservative whites usually vote for the Democratic Party. Mississippi conservatives are known to support more extreme third-parties when the Democratic Party has moderate positions such as the Dixiecrat Party from 1948 to 1960 and the Consitution Party from 2016 to 2018.