Mississippi Tourism and Travel Guide. Cheap Biloxi Hotels Info.

Mississippi Tourism and Travel Guide. Cheap Biloxi Hotels, Biloxi Casino Hotels and Destination Information.

When cotton was king and slavery was as yet uncontested MISSISSIPPI was the fifth wealthiest state in the nation. Since the Civil War, Mississippi has been the poorest, its dependence on cotton now a handicap that makes it victim to the vagaries of the commodities market. Pervasive poverty has long endured alongside pockets of enormous riches, and white Mississippi was notorious for violent resistance to black political participation. Not until the early Seventies did the church bombings and murders come to an end, and no one could claim that racial tension has ceased to exist. To some extent, the economy has regenerated since Mississippis first Republican governor in a century, Kirk Fordice, decided to legalize gambling; the enormous casino hotels may be lumbering eyesores that seem pitifully out of place on the sweeping Delta flatlands, but they're sucking considerable revenues across the state line from Memphis, Tennessee. Even today, you only have to take a detour down some rural side road to encounter pockets of truly scandalous black poverty, but with the profits from gaming being ploughed into education in Mississippi's poorest counties, the state may finally manage to shake off its appalling reputation for inequality.

While the major city is the capital, Jackson, historic river towns like Vicksburg and Natchez provide good reasons to stay off the interstates, and blues fans will need no encouragement to go exploring sleepy Delta settlements such as Alligator or Yazoo City.
Biloxi Mississippi
Neon-lit BILOXI (Bi-lux-ee), sprawling alongside a busy four-lane highway, cannot claim to be the prettiest resort in the world. But it's less expensive than Florida, it's near New Orleans, and it has sufficient diversity to satisfy local beach poseurs, senior citizens and families alike. Although Biloxi MS has experienced something of an economic boom since the states legalization of gaming, the seafront is lined with permanently moored casinos, several of which have spawned large hotels on drier land nearby - it is really not a place that's likely to appeal for long to international visitors.

Old Biloxi , starting at the far end of Lameuse Boulevard, consists of narrow streets of stuccoed buildings, in a tree-shaded tranquility that seems miles from the hustle of US 90. Across the highway, shrimp and oyster fleets unload their catch at the Small Crafts Harbor . You can rent boats to visit windblown Deer Island , half a mile offshore, or just to go fishing 70 minute shrimping tours; $11; tel 228-385-1182. A mile west, a glut of the usual shops selling Tshirts, seashells, trinkets and other ephemera marks the approach to the most popular stretch of Harrison County Beach , in front of the Broadwater Resort East .

Five miles west of Main Street, the compact white raised cottage of Beauvoir (March-October 9am-5pm, Nov-Feb 9am-4pm; $7.50), set in beautiful wooded grounds across from the ocean, was the final home of Confederate President Jefferson Davis, who lived here until his death in 1889. Though not sponsored by the federal government, a presidential library has been opened there in honor of Davis, and includes an interesting museum chronicling his life. The area's role as a shrine for unrepentant Confederates is typified by the grandiose title of the Civil War museum. Experiment in Nationalism and a bookstore that's bursting with back issues of Southern Partisan , a magazine featuring such editorials as "Why the South Was Right."

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