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Anglo-Saxon settlers from the older seaboard states flocked to Mississippi's virgin lands, bringing black slaves to work their fields, and until 1940 blacks outnumbered whites. Even today Mississippi has a larger percentage of blacks than any other state. Relations between the races have tended to shape Mississippi's history and to foster a conservative political philosophy and an insistence on state's rights among its white majority

The 1998 census put Mississippi's population at 2,752,000. The State Capital is Jackson, other major cities or towns include Meridian, Natchez, Vicksburg.