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Mississippi. and there were a lot of reasons to get out of mississippi for a long time. now there's a return migration. and it's a whole period, late '60s early '70s where are bugging out of brown university. there's a cyclical pattern to that. now, you know, you see people doing the same thing with food. there's a whole generation that wants to come down here. >> state senator willie simmons has been an elected official of the mississippi delta for 20 years. and he's been running this place, senators place, for 11. >> what's the difference between soul food and southern traditional southern f...

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 miss...

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...