The Mississippi Delta is associated with the Blues, Welty, Wright, Williams, Civil War and Civil Rights, the Great Flood, bogues and bayous, plantations, the Great Migration, Rock ‘n’ Roll, soul food, King Cotton, the river, precision agriculture, catfish, gospel, immigrants' stories, Highway 61, segregation, integration, share cropping, freedom songs, Freedom Summer, folk tales, swamp forests, hunting clubs, and, surprisingly, hot tamales.