Talk:Mississippi Delta

message: I find this article to be -- what would the word be? Misleading? Memphis, Tennessee has ALWAYS been the capital of The Delta. This is from an Anthony Bourdain piece on CNN:
"2. The Mississippi Delta's unofficial capital is in Tennessee.
"Memphis, which stands on a bluff just across the Mississippi state line, was built on the cotton fortunes from the rich farmland to the south. It's the logical place to begin a Delta adventure."
My roommate for four years at university was from the Delta -- he told me Memphis is the capital of the Delta. One of my closest friends after college was from the Delta. He told me Memphis is the capital of the Delta.
Just search MEMPHIS and DELTA and you'll find hundreds of references to this. If the article doesn't say that Memphis is the region's unofficial capital, it will mention Memphis as being part of the Delta. Here is the National Park Service article on the Lower Delta in which Memphis is mentioned TWENTY TIMES.
This article is misleading, in my opinion. --Montju (talk) 14:24, 4 July 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Memphis Has Always Been the "Capital" Of the Delta

message: The Robert Johnson paragraph seems a bit of a non-sequitor here... no?
--RobHutten 20:47, 6 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: If he's really really notable in the region (eg. vicksburg was historically very important on the Mississippi River, so it's briefly mentioned in that article), then maybe it fits.  I'm not a local though, so I don't know whether he's of such importance that the brief blurb should be kept.  --Interiot 14:13, 7 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: According to an article on the web site of the Mississippi Historical Society (http://mshistory.k12.ms.us/features/feature43/), Robert Johnson was "the most potent legend in the blues."  This statement indicates to me that he does deserve mention in this article, although it would be good to mention a few other notable Blues singers (such as Muddy Waters) as well. --Jimwilliams57 01:08, 8 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Robert Johnson 

message: Ummm, correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't Ole Miss in Oxford?  I know that Oxford is not in the Delta.  Is there a branch somewhere in the Delta? Jimwilliams57 04:31, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Ole Miss

message: Why are you purposfully vague on the historic origins of the Missippi Delta blues and the genre of music it created?  This music was created by BLACK SLAVES and they should be credited.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.229.102.208 (talk) 20:42, 19 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: WHERE IS THE HISTORY OF AFRICAN SLAVERY???

message: The article needs more narrative, especially its history, including after the Civil War.  There are too many lists. A separate page should be set up for "List of Notable people from the Delta" so that more than musicians and politicians can be included.  There have been many nationally known writers, too.--Parkwells (talk) 19:54, 23 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Too many lists

message: Oprah Winfrey was born and lived in Attala County, Mississippi which is near (about 50 miles away), but not in the Delta. I could find no references to her ever living in the Delta. -- Jimwilliams57 (talk) 15:12, 25 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Oprah Winfrey

message: "Mississippi Delta: the land economic recovery never visits." McClatchy Company. Sunday April 11, 2010.
WhisperToMe (talk) 13:51, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Source

message: Given that all or part of 17 counties are included in the Delta region, it deserves a category so they can easily be identified together. Parkwells (talk) 16:13, 8 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Needs category: Mississippi Delta region

message: Fourth paragraph; "In the opinion of Jefferson Davis and others later living in Mississippi, their being imported into slavery reflected the will of Providence, as it led to their Christianizing and to the improvement of their condition, compared to what it would have been had they remained in Africa.[8] According to Davis, the Africans "increased from a few unprofitable savages to millions of efficient Christian laborers"
Can anyone defend the relevance of these two sentences? It seems like thinly veiled mitigation of the evils of slavery, with no real importance to either the overall article or the particular sub-topic.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by ViolentNewContinent (talk • contribs) 16:49, 6 June 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: The quotation has representative of the thoughts & values of the men who owned the land and slaves in the Delta, and indicates they were proud of what they did and did not have any special guilt feelings. I think that the consensus of historians indicates the quotations are an accurate reflection of what those people thought. As far as mitigating different evils, that's POV & is not the job of Wikipedia one way or the other. Rjensen (talk) 18:28, 6 June 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Agriculture and the Delta Economy 

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message: I am removing the statement "From 1900 to 1930 planters recruited Chinese immigrants as field hands..." which is
false and is misquoting Vivian Wong's essay (https://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/25163098?uid=3739760&uid=2&uid=4&uid=3739256&sid=21102707780097).  Wong says "The majority of Chinese who settled in the Mississippi Delta arrived between the years 1910 and 1930."  She doesn't say they were field hands.  The Delta Chinese had mostly abandoned the plantations by the end of the 1870s.  John Jung book <Chopsticks in the Land of Cotton> and many of the online articles have interviewed individual families, so we know they were mostly laundrymen, workers, and store-owners from other U.S. states who moved to Mississippi in the early 20th century.  Even Wong's statement is misleading because most Delta Chinese were born in Mississippi.  It is more accurate to say the majority of Chinese families arrived between 1910 and 1930.  Winston Ho 何嶸 (talk) 20:35, 28 July 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:   Demographics  

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