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The president is coming to America’s poorest, blackest state to open a civil rights museum on Saturday, and people in the neighbourhoods surrounding that gleaming tribute to the past would rather have Donald Trump visit their present. Three miles from the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum, over rutted roads, past littered lots, abandoned houses, and shuttered plants and warehouses, McElroy, 69, and other black residents of this struggling capital city say that after nearly a year of the Trump presidency, they have a definitive answer to the question candidate Trump posed when he spoke at a rally in Jackson in August last year. Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant an early and avid supporter of Trump’s had invited the president to attend the opening months ago, but few here thought he would actually come. Except for crises such as hurricanes and oil spills, no president had set foot in small, poor, reliably Republican Mississippi for more than a decade. Trump’s down-to-the-w...