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host, the issue is that you are noting a correspondence and then declaring it causal. Maybe Mississippi is a backwater, so there are limited opportunities there? Maybe it's a calcified social structure because it's not economically dynamic as opposed to vice versa? Also, I suspect that in areas where there is economic dynamism in Mississippi you'll also see much less racial disparity in economic well-being.
But Mississippi isn't the whole country. In the US as a whole, race-based economic disparities are decreasing, and have been for years. I would expect they will continue to decrease for a while until they level off.
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