When I think small town Mississippi, I think dead and decaying downtown, lack of young people, abundance of overweight people, and Prohibition-Era attitude towards opening bars and restaurants. That is the opposite of Oxford. Starkville has changed some for the better, but my impression is that it still retains more conventional small town Mississippi than Oxford has because it is more apart from the university.
Im not making a value judgment on what's better.
So OM is less fat too?