I have to give it a 5 because that is the homestate of my family so I guess you could say my roots are in Mississippi even though I grew up in the Midwest. I never experienced any racism in this state and my family said the same while they were growing up there. I guess because they didn't live around any white people, they grew up in a black town. It's beautiful, not too much to do but I gotta give Mississippi it's props. I would never live there however.