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>> john t. edge: this is exactly what you expect in mississippi though, right? >> anthony: yeah, it's supposed to look like this. >> john t. edge: you know, i moved here from georgia, and the thing that struck me when i moved here driving through the delta the first time was just how empty it was. like, you know, it's like everybody left. >> anthony: the great migration. three factors. automation -- the invention of mechanical means to pick cotton. the call of better-paying jobs in the industries of the north. and, of course, freedom. >> john t. edge: you know, people think about the blues as ...

In the industries of the north, and of course, freedom. >> people think about the blues as a lament. a lot of blues songs are about freedom, about getting the hell out of mississippi. and there were a lot of reasons to get the hell out of mississippi, for a long time. now there's a return migration. there's that whole period late '60s, early '70s, where kids are bugging out of brown university to come sit at the foot of an aging blues man in mississippi. there's a cyclical pattern to that. now you see people kind of doing the same thing with food, like there's a whole generation that wants to ...

Moved here from georgia, and the thing that struck me when i moved here driving through the delta the first time was just how empty it was. like, you know, it's like everybody left. >> anthony: the great migration. three factors. automation -- the invention of mechanical means to pick cotton. the call of better-paying jobs in the industries of the north. and, of course, freedom. >> john t. edge: you know, people think about the blues as a lament. a lot of blues songs are about freedom, about getting the hell out of mississippi. you know, and there were a lot of reasons to get the hell out of m...

This is exactly what you expect in mississippi, though, right? >> yeah. it's supposed to look like this. >> i moved here from georgia and the thing that struck me when i moved here, driving through the delta the first time, was just how empty it was. you know, it's like everybody left. >> the great migration. three factors. automation, the invention of mechanical means to pick cotton, the call of better-paying jobs in the industries of the north, and of course, freedom. >> people think about the blues as a lament. a lot of blues songs are about freedom, about getting the hell out of mississipp...

This is exactly what you expect in mississippi, though, right? >> yeah. it's supposed to look like this. >> i moved here from georgia and the thing that struck me when i moved here, driving through the delta the first time, was just how empty it was. you know, it's like everybody left. >> the great migration. three factors. automation, the invention of mechanical means to pick cotton, the call of better-paying jobs in the industries of the north, and of course, freedom. >> people think about the blues as a lament. a lot of blues songs are about freedom, about getting the hell out of mississipp...