DOES ANYONE LOOK AT A MAP ANYMORE?!!!
...or do Mississippians just want to be pissed off about something THIS BAD?
Since when the hell has Mississippi been the only thing between Mobile and New Orleans.
WTF people?
If you get in your car and drive from Mobile to New Orleans, you will go through more of coastal Alabama (where the hell do you think Forrest Gump made his fortune?), Mississippi, and then a tiny part of Louisiana.
That is THREE states. Therefore, saying "the Mississippi Gulf Coast" would have left out two states. If she said Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana....that would have covered everything from Galveston to Pensacola--too broad. "The small area of coastal Alabama east of the Mississippi border and west of Mobile, as well as the Mississippi Gulf Coast, and the Louisiana coast northeast of New Orleans" doesn't exactly roll off the tongue.
So, she said the land mass between Mobile and New Orleans. It make sense.
In actuality, we're being the arrogant ones (or at least ignorant).