List of City Nicknames in The United States - Mississippi

Mississippi

  • Artesia - Johnson Grass Capital of the World
  • Belzoni - Catfish Capital of the World.
  • Biloxi - The Playground of the South
  • Greenwood - Cotton Capital of the World.
  • Gulfport
    • Root Beer Capital of the World.
    • Where Your Ship Comes In
  • Hattiesburg - Hub City
  • Jackson
    • Chimneyville
    • City with Soul.
  • Meridian
    • The Queen City
  • Oxford
    • The literary center of the South
    • The Little Easy (in reference to New Orleans, the "Big Easy")
  • Port Gibson - The town too beautiful to burn
  • Senatobia - The Five Star City
  • Vicksburg
    • The Gibraltar of America.
    • Red Carpet City of the South
    • Take Me to the River

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Famous quotes containing the word mississippi:

    “Mississippi: I told you I was no good with a gun.
    Bull: The trouble is Doc, Cole was in front of the gun. The safe place is behind Mississippi when he shoots that thing.”
    —Leigh Brackett (1915–1978)

    ““Where is the Mississippi panorama
    And the girl who played the piano?
    Where are you, Walt?
    The Open Road goes to the used-car lot.”
    —Louis Simpson (b. 1923)

    “Listen, my friend, I’ve just come back from Mississippi and over there when you talk about the West Bank they think you mean Arkansas.”
    —Patrick Buchanan (b. 1938)