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*Some came from '''New England''' and a few '''colonial French families''' settled in the Biloxi area. | *Some came from '''New England''' and a few '''colonial French families''' settled in the Biloxi area. | ||
*Most of the settlers, however, were of '''Ulster Scottish, English, and northern European ancestry'''. | *Most of the settlers, however, were of '''Ulster Scottish, English, and northern European ancestry'''. | ||
*Blacks outnumbered whites in Mississippi from the middle of the nineteenth century until the middle of the twentieth. | *Blacks outnumbered whites in Mississippi from the middle of the nineteenth century until the middle of the twentieth. | ||
== References == | == References == |
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