Talk:Thank God for Mississippi

Current Coloquialisms?
Should a mention of the common epetet among college age Mississippians be included in this article? "Goddamit, Mississippi."? And I disagree with the below. This deserves its Wikipedia article. Goddamit, Mississippi.

Exaggeration
This article is nearly facetious and borderline non-encyclopedic. It's use of offhand citations that does not demonstrate that the phrase is commonly in use, detracts. It probably should be nominated for deletion. But the removal of offhand mentions might help a little. Student7 (talk) 23:19, 20 June 2013 (UTC)


 * Are you suggesting that Texas ranks highly in education among the states? The Galveston County Democratic Party Chairman disagreed, with stats to prove it. It is one of the citations you removed. Are you suggesting that "Thank God for Mississipi" doesn't see use in that state? The sources disagree. The use of "common" is perhaps not supported; I'll reword it. What on earth is wrong with the WP citation?? It is a Washington Post staff writer saying exactly what this article states--the phrase is in common use, especially in other states who at least can look down on one other state (or at the very least claim that they can). I mean, WP:AFD is still in session if you want to nominate it, but everything here is supported thoroughly by sources. Red Slash 08:30, 21 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Wikipedia is not a dictionary of American usage of idioms. Maybe Wiktionary. There is no indication that the threat of usage by a single politician is "common" among anybody, Texans or otherwise. This is not a page to be discussing the relative merits of Texas education. That is in another article. Student7 (talk) 14:24, 21 June 2013 (UTC)
 * If you have a problem with the article existing, take it to WP:AFD. If you have problems with the claiming that Texas is a low-ranking state in several different criteria, I've got at least one source disagreeing with you. If you have a problem with the assertion that Texans have used the phrase "Thank God for Mississippi", I've got sources that aren't even in the article that profoundly disagree. I have not one, not two, not three, not four, not five... well, a lot of sources assert or claim (somewhat jokingly, granted, but it's a joke of a saying) that it's kind of a thing for Texans to say. I know not all of those are reliable sources per se, but as you seem to think that there's no evidence that Texans ever say this, well, that's simply not the case. In fact, that last link goes to an article written by a reporter for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram quoting the former Texas State Library director saying that very slogan. It's a serendipitous finding but I think I'll put it into the article. I still don't see a specific objection from you as for why this clearly relevant and sourced piece of information doesn't belong in the article. Red Slash 06:28, 23 June 2013 (UTC)

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Nomination for an award
This article is objectively written while being quite hillarious.

I nominate the author of the section on stereotypical usage in US for a fair but humorous touch award.

My bias is that I Thank My God for living in Tennessee.

Reid Sullivan (talk) 19:46, 16 January 2021 (UTC)


 * Aww, thanks. Red   Slash  23:40, 4 March 2021 (UTC)