[Crawford]

And Mississippi has Memphis. Memphis is kinda the big city for MS, as much of the Memphis sprawl is in MS, and Memphis ends at the MS line. Also Memphis is probably a better cultural fit for MS than TN.

Pittsburgh and DC are somewhat close to WV, but nothing like Memphis, and DC has no cultural relationship with WV whatseover.

And MS is mostly flat, with straight roads, so easily accessible. And Oxford, MS with its Faulkner-originating fame, probably serves the college town creative class demographic better than Morgantown or Huntington. But MS is also the blackest and poorest state.