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The state has a population of approximately 3 million. It is the 32nd most extensive and the 32nd most populous of the 50 United States. Located in the center of the state, Jackson is the state capital and largest city, with a population of approximately 175,000 people.

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Mississippi is a state in the southern region of the United States, with part of its southern border formed by the Gulf of Mexico. Its western border is formed by the Mississippi River.

The state is heavily forested outside of the Mississippi Delta area, between the Mississippi and Yazoo rivers. Before the American Civil War, most development in the state was along riverfronts, where slaves worked on cotton plantations. After the war, the bottomlands to the interior were cleared, mostly by freedmen. By the end of the 19th century, African Americans made up two-thirds of the Delta’s property owners, but timber and railroad companies acquired much of the land after a financial crisis.

Clearing altered the Delta’s ecology, increasing the severity of flooding along the Mississippi. Much land is now held by agribusinesses. A largely rural state with agricultural areas dominated by industrial farms, Mississippi is ranked low or last among the states in such measures as health, educational attainment, and median household income. The state’s catfish aquaculture farms produce the majority of farm-raised catfish consumed in the United States.

Since the 1930s and the Great Migration, Mississippi has been majority white, albeit with the highest percentage of black residents of any U.S. state. From the early 19th century to the 1930s, its residents were mostly black, a population that before the American Civil War was composed largely of African American slaves. Democratic whites retained political power through Jim Crow laws. In the first half of the 20th century, nearly 400,000 rural blacks left the state for work and opportunities in northern and midwestern cities, with another wave of migration around World War II to West Coast cities. In 2010, 37% of Mississippians were African Americans, the highest percentage of African Americans in any U.S. state. Since gaining enforcement of their voting franchise in the late 1960s, most African Americans support Democratic candidates in local, state and national elections. Conservative whites have shifted to the Republican Party. African Americans are a majority in many counties of the Mississippi-Yazoo Delta, an area of historic settlement during the plantation era. Since 2011, Mississippi has been ranked as the most religious state in the country.

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The state of Mississippi currently has over 73,000 miles of highway within its state lines. Mississippi is home to 9 Interstate Highways and 14 U.S. Highways. The longest highway in the state is U.S. Route 49 at 334 miles. This highway begins near Gulfport and runs north before crossing over the Arkansas state line at Yazoo City. The longest Interstate Highway in the state is Interstate 55 at 290.41 miles. I-55 runs north-south from the Louisiana state line near Osyka to the Tennessee state line near Southaven. I-55, as well at I-20, act primarily as the interstates that offer access to Jackson, the capital of Mississippi. I-20 runs east-west from the Louisiana state line near Vicksburg, to the Alabama state line near Kewanee. Interstate 10 and Interstate 59 act primarily as the interstates that offer gateway to other states. I-10 begins at the Louisiana state line near Slidell, and runs east for only 77 miles to reach the Alabama state line near Missala. I-59 begins at the Lousiana state line near Nicholson, and runs 169 miles until reaching the Alabama state line near Kewanee. The shortest Interstate Highway in the state is Interstate 110, running only 4.10 miles and acting as a connection between U.S. Route 90 and I-10.