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Longwood House, Natchez, Mississippi.

East of the Mississippi, America is looking more like Europe every year. Every lane is now named, complete with signpost and, often, street numbers. You can hardly pass a crossroad without a convenience store. Wilderness can be found, but you have to seek it out. People are everywhere.

Bumper sticker seen in northern Mississippi:

What if the Hokey-pokey
IS what it’s all about?

The police presence, on and off the Interstates, is now formidable: half a dozen or more cruisers per day. Is this a trickle-down effect of the bloated, so-called "homeland security" budget?

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