Cohen: Mississippi cannot escape its past

JACKSON, Mississippi – The highest point in the State of Mississippi is Woodall Mountain in the northeast. It is 806 feet above sea level.
Mississippi is unfailingly flat. Much of it lies on the Gulf of Mexico. The Mississippi Delta, which extends some 325 kilometres between the Mississippi and Yazoo Rivers, is like a vast tabletop. Its dark, loamy soil falls to the horizon; imagine the Prairies with buzzing crop dusters and endless fields of cotton.
The Delta has flooded catastrophically