Not anymore it isn't MT. Both of my grandparents have lived there their whole lives, and I lied there in the 70's. Land was cheap then, and there was no such thing as a "job" available, with the exception of some tourism and Keesler AFB. However, the casinos have busted it wide open, and land is no longer cheap, but the jobs still are.
It is actually a lovely place, sugar white sand, Huge old oaks, clear streams and dense pine forests, and the people are not like the sterotypical Mississippian of the rest of the state. It is more like Florida than the red clay Mississippi we all like to make fun of.