Mississippi Delta

No one thinks right now that a patrician son of the Mississippi Delta is the party's best hope to run against Obama.

The Anti-Obama 2010

And the -- I met a fellow who is a religious man, and he heard the call of taking his practice, his medical practice, into the Mississippi Delta, which is a poor, poor region of America.

CNN Transcript Aug 22, 2002 2002

We also supported a special investment of over $100 million in the Mississippi Delta, which is now the poorest part of America outside the reservations, and another $1 billion initiative in Indian country; a Southwest border initiative designed to encourage further economic development along our border.

Remarks By President At Nlc Congressional City Conference ITY National Archives 2000

And of course, I come from the Mississippi Delta, which is one of the poorest places in America.

Remarks By President At Reception For Rep Elllen Tauscher ITY National Archives 2000

What we're trying to do is to shrink the economic meaning of distance, so that people can live here or in the Appalachian Mountains, or in the remote Ozark Mountains, where I came from, or in little villages they grew up in in the Mississippi Delta, which is the poorest part of America except for the Native American reservation, and still make a living.

Remarks By The President In Webcast With Lake Valley Students ITY National Archives 2000

And we looked at how to do these kinds of things in the Mississippi Delta, which is the poorest part of America.

Interview Of The President By Businessweek ITY National Archives 1999

He and I worked for years before I ever dreamed of running for President on the problems of rural economic development in the Mississippi Delta, which is still the poorest part of our country.

Phone Call To Recipients Of Empowerment Zone Funds ITY National Archives 1994

We know that we can no longer ignore the fact that when there is no investment in these distressed neighborhoods, whether they're in the inner cities of New York and Chicago and Detroit, or back home where I come from in the Mississippi Delta, which is still the lowest income part of America -- we know we can't ignore those anymore.

Presidents Remarks At Dinkins Rally ITY National Archives 1993

When she was a baby, just born, a white labor recruiter came to the town where she was living and talked her grandfather into the idea that if he moved down to the Mississippi Delta, which is the home of fabulously rich soil and big cotton plantations, that he would make a lot of money, which wasn't true, but anyway, he believed it.

The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How it Changed America 1991

The birth of rock through Chicago blues by way of the Mississippi Delta is a much more complicated story than it emerges in the movie, in which Waters (David Oyelowo) is the primary catalyst, and

Expecting Rain NY Times 2010