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MISSISSIPPI
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State’s Nickname
 The Magnolia State is named because
of the abundance of magnolia flowers
and trees in the state
 The magnolia is the official state flower
and the official state tree
Flag of Mississippi
The committee to design a State Flag was appointed by
legislative action February 7, 1894, and provided that the flag
reported by the committee should become the official flag
The committee recommended for the flag "one with width twothirds of its length; with the union square, in width two-thirds of
the width of the flag; the ground of the union to be red and a broad
blue saltier thereon, bordered with white and emblazoned with
thirteen (13) mullets or five-pointed stars, corresponding with the
number of the original States of the Union; the field to be divided
into three bars of equal width, the upper one blue, the center one
white, and the lower one extending the whole length of the flag
Listen to the Official Mississippi Song As You Read The
Words Below: http://www.50states.com/songs/miss.htm
Go, Mississippi Words and Music by Houston
DavisVerse:States may sing their songs of praise
With
waving flags and hip-hoo-rays,
Let cymbals crash and let
bells ring
Cause here's one song I'm proud to
sing.Choruses:Go, Mississippi, keep rolling along,
Go,
Mississippi, you cannot go wrong,
Go, Mississippi, we're
singing your song,
M-I-S-S-I-S-S-I-P-P-IGo, Mississippi,
you're on the right track,
Go, Mississippi, and this is a
fact,
Go, Mississippi, you'll never look back,
M-I-S-S-IS-S-I-P-P-IGo, Mississippi, straight down the line,
Go,
Mississippi, ev'rything's fine,
Go, MIssissippi, it's your
state and mine,
M-I-S-S-I-S-S-I-P-P-IGo, Mississippi,
continue to roll,
Go, Mississippi, the top is the goal,
Go,
Mississippi, you'll have and you'll hold,
M-I-S-S-I-S-S-I-PP-IGo, Mississippi, get up and go,
Go, Mississippi, let the
world know,
That our Mississippi is leading the show,
MI-S-S-I-S-S-I-P-P-I
Southern Magnolia
 Southern magnolia Magnoliaceae Magnolia grandiflora
 Leaf: Alternate, simple, pinnately veined and evergreen, 5 to 8 inches
long, oval in shape with an entire margin
 Very waxy/shiny above, and reddish tomentose below
 Flower: Very showy and fragrant, 6 to 8 inches wide with large white
petals
 Flowers are borne singly, from May to June.Fruit: An aggregate of
follicles, green changing to red, cylindrical, 3 to 5 inches long with red
seeds, 1/2 inch long
 Maturing October to November.Twig: Stout, with white to rusty
tomentum and a long (1 to 1 1/2 inches) silky white to rusty red
terminal bud.Bark: Brown to gray, thin, smooth/lenticellate when
young, later with close plates or scales
 Form: A medium-sized tree with a pyramidal crown
 When open grown, the crown is dense with low branches.
State Flower
 The great magnolia shoots up its majestic trunk,
 crowned with evergreen leaves, and decorated with a thousand
beautiful flowers, that perfume the air around
 where the forests and fields are adorned with blossoms of every hue;
where the golden orange ornaments the gardens and groves; where
bignonias of various kinds interlace their climbing stems around the
white-flowered stuartia, and mounting still higher, cover the summits
of the lofty trees around, accompanied with innumerable vines, that
here and there festoon the dense foliage of the magnificent woods
FUN PLACES IN MISSISSIPPI
 Take a cruise down the Mississippi River
 Visit a plantation
States That Border Mississippi
 North
 Tennessee
 East
 Alabama
 West
 Arkansas and Louisiana
 South
 Tip of Louisiana and the Guif of Mexico
Mississippi State
Animal
 Mockingbird
 The Mocking-bird remains in Louisiana the
whole year
 In the beginning of April, sometimes a
fortnight earlier, the Mocking-birds pair, and
construct their nests
 The nearer you approach to the seashores, the more plentiful do you find these
birds
When Mississippi became a state
 Dec. 10, 1817
 20th State into the Union
Mississippi area code
228 601 662
State Capital : Jackson
Climate
 Mississippi is located in the humid subtropical climate region,
characterized by temperate winters
 long, hot summers; and rainfall that is fairly evenly distributed
through the year
 However, the state is subject to periods of both drought and
floodT
 The climate rarely seems to bring "average" conditions
 More typical would be an expection of "feast or famine" with
regard to weather events as the climate delivers energy and
moisture in subtropical latitudes between a large landmass to
the north and the Gulf of Mexico to the south