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Mississippi
     
Mississippi
1 MS a state in the southeastern US, which is now an industrial area but used to produce a lot of cotton, and which was an important centre of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s and 1960s
2

the Mississippi

the longest river in the US, about 2350 miles long, which flows from Minnesota to the Gulf of Mexico
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