As in the rest of the Deep South, wages are low and laws privilege corporations over workers with a Victorian savagery, with few of the nuances of job safety, state minimum wage laws, and organizing rights seen elsewhere in the country, however inconsistently. Unions are profoundly unpopular among whites, because of memories of strikes carried out by overwhelmingly black unions - and because unions can only function when ALL working people, black, white, brown, or otherwise, band together.
Mississippi: the more it changes, the more it stays the same.
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