Was Mississippi or Alabama historically considered more “deep Southern”?

[darklordoftech]

?

[Del Tachi]

Mississippi has even less upland influence than Alabama, so we win

[DINGO Joe]

The name of the song is "Mississippi Goddamn"  which means that, somehow, it was just a bit worse than Alabama.

[Big Abraham]

The Mississippi Delta is the deepest of the Deep South

[Geoffrey Howe]

The Mississippi Delta is the deepest of the Deep South

Surely that would be the South Carolina Lowcountry?

[Del Tachi]

The Mississippi Delta is the deepest of the Deep South

Surely that would be the South Carolina Lowcountry?

Charleston is too much of its own thing to be a "Deep South" prototype and the MS Delta is more Black, even.

[Geoffrey Howe]

The Mississippi Delta is the deepest of the Deep South

Surely that would be the South Carolina Lowcountry?

Charleston is too much of its own thing to be a "Deep South" prototype and the MS Delta is more Black, even.

I was thinking in more of a historical sense. But what about the rural parts?

[Torie]

A professor of my brother's while he was earning his doctorate degree in geology at the University of South Carolina told me when we were all together that they like to say in his parts "Thank God for Mississippi," because otherwise SC would be at the bottom of the heap, so from that I infer that Mississippi on this one takes the Gold, agreeing with Del Tachi.