Date: 2015-10-27 01:29 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] altamira16
I grew up in Mississippi. And I think the person making this video is being needlessly mean and obnoxious by cherrypicking people with the least amount of teeth that she can find and playing "Dixie" in the background. Note that she is only talking to white men, and 37.5% of Mississippians are African American. Those predominantly African areas of the state like the Mississippi delta are the poorest. The people she is finding are surprisingly not large by Mississippi standards.

Because Mississippi did not adopt the Medicaid expansion portion of Obamacare, they really have been hurt by the legislation because a) they have seen no benefits from the legislation other than maybe options to purchase insurance on the exchange at full price and b) the escalating cost of prescription drug costs due to the fact that no one negotiated drug costs. My mom still lives in Mississippi and volunteers at a free clinic three days a week. The cost for the drugs that they provide to people who can't afford them has gone way up.
Edited Date: 2015-10-27 01:58 pm (UTC)

Date: 2015-10-27 07:36 pm (UTC)
altamira16: A sailboat on the water at dawn or dusk (Default)
From: [personal profile] altamira16
Southern Foodways Alliance creates some short videos about some of the food culture of the South, and their videos of Mississippi are a little more measured in some ways.

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