Mississippi… Believe It!
As many of you know, I live in Mississippi. Widely regarded as one of the most backwoods redneck states in the union (it’s debatable which is the most, Mississippi or Alabama), it’s hard to be taken seriously sometimes when people hear you’re from Mississippi. Afterall, what does Mississippi ever do besides pull down the National IQ & Academic Test Scores, or beg for more welfare money?
My dad sent me an email a few weeks ago, and I just managed to get enough details to deem it worthy of repeating. As reported in The Mississippi Press, an advertising agency known as The Cirlot Agency, Inc has taken it upon themselves to boost the image of Mississippi by launching the Mississippi… Believe it! campaign. It’s a series of 11 posters showing how Mississippi is not only a national but global force in Technology, the arts, and sports. Highlighting such things as our Ballet companies, the new Nissan plant, our numerous Athletes, musicians, and writers, and even our world-changing medical procedures, even veteran Mississippians can probably learn a thing or two about our state from these. They claim they’ll be published in several newspapers and circulated country-wide, although I’ve not seen any yet.
Go check it out, all the posters are on their website in nice high-resolution PDF format. Spread the word 
