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by: HAHAHAThe entire football team is transferring except those Memphis/Jackson guys who are very wealthy. ; )
Comment#3 by: um
shea sucked. was a 18 year old sophomore in high school playing against 15-16 year old actual sophomores when rankings came out...no wonder it's easy to look like the #1 QB. But who cares about him, he was going to have his job taken from him from a community college transfer from new mexico.
jackson/memphis players have money? LOL no.
there are some "Walkons" who never see the field but the football team has them just so their daddy can donate money. no they aren't from jackson/memphis. I am talking actual money, not mississippi rich. Google Billy Busch
by: Gold diggerDec 19, 2017 2:41:40 PM
^ you need to look harder..... look at the EN, PDT, KA, and EX house. Loads of MS. Old money. And Im not talking country music star money. (Haha...that one was funny.)
I know this because I have a vested interest....hey, at least I'm honest.
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by: TreasurerDec 20, 2017 9:45:40 AM
Meh, you are a fool and your comments prove it. The houses don't reflect the money that the members have. Go and try to build a fraternity house for 2-3 million and see what you get....you are not even close in your estimate of the their value. Mississippi rich is in the millions and there are many wealthy Ms. famalies thst go to both State and Ole Miss.
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by: Bored MomsDec 20, 2017 2:46:42 PM
All these Moms arguing over what rich is. Can't you just let those of us actually on campus have fun without your weird obsessions?
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by: TreasurerDec 20, 2017 5:34:20 PM
^ not a mom. Finance major here. Just calling it like I see it. Several comments about Mississippi rich but probably from the same person. Lots of old money in MS. Mississipian's are conservative and old money families even more so. Not so showy as other areas of the country. Several families that went to my HS are worth millions. You would never know it by outward appearance...drive old cars...live in nice houses but not fake mansions...have summer jobs.
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by: Okay......Dec 20, 2017 5:56:37 PM
by: correctionDec 22, 2017 2:06:15 AM
For an finance major you are an idiot.
First, there is a world of difference between "a family worth a million" and someone actually bringing in $1M a year.
cleveland.com/business/index.ssf/2016/03/us_millionaires_ club_adds_3000.html
9% of families are worth 1M, about 1 in 10 families. We have ~21,000 students, so more than 2,000 people on this campus alone come from families worth a million. When you factor in "worth" it includes your home value and your retirement, etc., it's not that hard to have a family worth 1M.
Now bringing in $1M income a year is a complete different story. There are no fortune 500 companies here. Doctors don't make $1M (unless they patented a procedure or run a successful private practice - neither applies to anyone in this state), some lawyers do bring in $1M (but not mississippi lawyers, I am talking corporate lawyers in Manhattan), there is no stock market here, no hollywood, just a few small successful businesses. Honestly doubt there are more than 500, maybe even less than 100 people in this state that bring $1M a year in income.
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by: Money bagsDec 22, 2017 1:05:45 PM
Mississippians seem insecure, at least the ones on here, they seem desperate for people to think they have money. If you have money you usually aren't worried about proving you have money.
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#5 by: RE: Treasurer
There isn't old money in mississippi.
Yes, Mississippi was the second richest state before the civil war (SC was 1st), but after the civil war the south suffered so did mississippi and neither went back.
Yes some people have big houses because it's an investment but drive cheap cars. But there is a reason why those families you know have big houses and drive cheap cars...the houses are hand me downs.
I am from Birmingham, and there is a town here called mountain brook and it's old money. Most houses are worth $1M plus, but they were built 60-80 years ago. Birmingham was known from Steel/Iron and was rich in the early 1900s. Those people in that industry then made a ton of money. The way it goes is when the grandparents die, their kids move in the big house in their 60s, then they die and their kids move in, etc. Seriously they make 30-40k a year, just have a big $1-2M hand me down house.
Same thing with Belle Meade in Nashville. It's old money and hand me down houses. When houses go for sale there it's so over priced most people don't touch it. Birmingham doesn't have famous or super rich people but Nashville does and those people even though they can afford the Belle Meade/Mountain Brook they don't buy houses there because they know its over priced
there isn't old money in mississippi. madison, ms (probably the richest part of the state) is fairly new. yes there are a few old big houses around the state, but it's very few and far between. With Belle Meade/Mountain Brook you can drive for 10-15mins and see all million dollar homes, you can't do that any where in this state
by: msDec 26, 2017 12:59:57 PM
I am from MS and while most of the stuff you're saying is true, you have to give us a little credit. We are a state with a small population and we are poor. So obviously there isn't going to be much wealth. And I accept that. But that doesn't mean we don't have any wealthy and affluent people, because we do, there just aren't as many (which makes sense). Believe it or not, there actually are places you can go and see multiple million dollar houses all together. Maybe not driving for 10-15 minutes straight (because you could drive all the way through pretty much every city in MS in that time frame), but multiple large neighborhoods. And, big shocker here, they drive luxury cars too! and pay for their kids' private school! and the mom doesn't work! Wow! I bet you're shocked and you're about to say it's all a "hand me down". We have old million dollar houses that have been passed down or bought, and really new ones. We have wealthy families who choose to live in a less flashy house, and we have people who live in houses they can't afford. We are not as wealthy as places like Nashville, and we know that. But don't come on here and say no one here has old money and there are barely any million dollar houses.
Also some food for thought would be that homes in MS are so much cheaper than everywhere else. If you picked up a home from MS and moved it to Birmingham or Nashville, the price would jump up by a lot of money.
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by: msDec 26, 2017 1:08:57 PM
Just some numbers here, Nashville's population is more than 1/6 of Mississippi's entire population. Jackson is the largest city in MS and its population is around 170,000. The next largest is Gulfport with around 71,000. Tennessee has 6 cities with populations above 100,000 and we only have 1. They have 2 above 600,000.
Also the richest person in MS is worth over a billion dollars. So we do have wealthy people, just not tons.
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#6 by: Reb Wealth
One distinction that needs to be made about "MS rich" is that it is old money and just that, unearned handed down money whereas the "OOS rich" is new (or newer) money, and those families don't just have capital and equity; they have power. People here might look down their noses at the heiress of a New York media empire, for example, but that one family has access to real global networks of influential people and wealth. Like, MS rich is nothing compared to the real affluent coming from finance, tech, media, law/politics, pharma etc. I'm not advocating for any of that globalist stuff, just saying it's weird how the wealth and power of Mississippians are so limited and confined to the borders of this state.
by: ^Dec 26, 2017 9:27:20 AM
found the in-stater whose family is neither rich, powerful nor famous outside of MS 😂
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by: StupidDec 26, 2017 12:08:02 PM
by: Stupider Dec 26, 2017 12:38:34 PM
Can't be any older and tireder than the old ladies who comment on here....yawn
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by: StupidestDec 26, 2017 1:28:11 PM
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by: MS RichDec 19, 2017 12:25:44 PM
One of the Busch heirs is currently a DG. Another DG is the daughter of a high level executive of a major multimedia firm in NYC. There is a DDD who is a famous country music singer's daughter. I'm sure there are many more examples. The point is that the really wealthy kids are from out of state. "Mississippi rich" is small potatoes.
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