As a European, I have certain images and associations about many other states of the South, like Louisiana (New Orleans, Mardi Gras, French language), Alabama (Sweet Home Alabama, TKaM, the civil rights movement), Tennessee (Elvis, music in general), Georgia (Gone with the Wind, Coca Cola, "the red hills of Georgia", South Carolina (Gov. Sanford, senators beating up other senators with a stick in the US Senate) but not really any about Mississippi, other than the river. It's a state one doesn't seem to hear much about, somehow.