It looks like horrible priorities. The revenue practically all went either to show projects or to cutting taxes for the rich.
"So who benefited? The plantation owners!"
To be sure, the casino jobs paid badly, so they did not support a growth in retail businesses. Tax revenue did not get spent on such luxuries as schools, streets, or public health.
...Mississippi is one of the crookedest states in the Union because white people will vote for a white Republican crook over a black Democratic reformer and black people will vote for a black Democratic crook over a white Republican reformer.
But Homer Stokes is the friend of the Little Man!
