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Transplants adjusting to life in the Magnolia state.

Publication: Mississippi Business Journal
Publication Date: 26-MAY-03
Format: Online - approximately 701 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Transplants adjusting to life in the Magnolia state.(Nissan Motor Company Ltd. in Canton, Mississippi)

Article Excerpt
Barefoot and pregnant, cross burnings and Klan rallies -- some people believe those stereotypes are what they'll find in Mississippi.

But thanks in part to Nissan North America choosing to locate a plant in the central part of the state, those perceptions of Mississippi are becoming a dying breed.

Jeffrey Webster, human resources department manager at Nissan, who moved to Madison in August 2001 with his wife and their three children, said he'd heard plenty about Mississippi before he got there.

"I heard it just wasn't the place to live -- that you don't want to go there," Webster said. "I was asked by...

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