From: Steve Taylor <kidscroll@hotmail.com>

Just as the Mississippi divides the country vertically, another line, imaginary but no less important, divides it horizontally. It's the Insurance line. North of it people say in-SUR-ance. South of it they say IN-surance. On each side of the line, people are made incredulous and anxious by the way people on the other side pronounce the word. The Insurance Line marks a division as sharp as nationality or even gender, and the point at which it crosses the Mississippi has got to throb with special meaning. Any
documentary about the Mississippi should take note of this remarkable intersection.