@TylerandAce, please go with your instincts; I don't believe you'd like your lives scrutinized and your families subjected to the repercussions of that scrutiny; Mississippi is not LA or New York City, and although in my year at Ole Miss I met some wonderful progressives, that society is still in many ways agrarian in nature and not open-minded; no, Mississippi is not filled with haters, and I proudly wear my baseball cap from Square Books in Oxford to show that the state has, according to the Wall Street Journal, one of the ten best independent bookstores in the country!