50 Years of 50 States: Mississippi

Nickname: The Magnolia State
Date Ratified: December 10, 1817 (20th)
Capital: Jackson

Map of Mississippi

• Here’s a piece of cocktail party trivia for you: did you know that the sale of sex toys is banned in the state of Mississippi?
• With a rate of over 30%, Mississippi had the highest obesity rate from 2005-2008.
• The first bottling of Coca-Cola was in Vicksburg, by the Biedenharn Candy Company in 1891.
• In 1898, Edward Adolf Barq, of Biloxi, invented a new soft drink known as root beer.
• In 1963, the first human lung transplant was performed in Jackson by Dr. James Hardy of the University of Mississippi.
• The state flag of Mississippi was adopted in 1894, and is currently the only state flag that incorporates the Battle Flag of the Confederacy.


Flag of Mississippi

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