The nine counties forming this region vary considerably in architectural intensity, from Lauderdale County, where the transportation hub of Meridian contains the state’s densest grouping of late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century commercial buildings, to Kemper County north of it, where a visitor can traverse tens of thousands of acres without finding even a public school. Most of the area is part of Mississippi’s central hills, an irregular plateau some six hundred to eight hundred feet above sea level and largely covered by pine forests. Before white settlement, Choctaw Indians populated this part of Mississippi, and today the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians occupies the unincorporated town and Indian reservation called Choctaw in Neshoba County and operates casinos here. More broadly, the region’s economy is based on agriculture, forestry, and oil and gas extraction, with a concentration of health-care facilities in Meridian.
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