I'm from Tupelo, MS which isn't too far from there - around the same age as you. So I'd trek up to Memphis and link up with those crews pretty often when I was growing up skating. I don't really visit that often but I could probably put you in touch with some people from around there if you're interested.
Oh Lord fuck Tupelo Mississippi, hooked up with a cute kinda punky Marilyn Manson girl from burger king early 1999 and we hung out around town (I was doing landscaping for the golf course there) not much to do there except bang and listen to rap and metal.
Long story short a bunch of people who knew that girl caught wind of me which weren't hyped about me, and told me it was time to go. (Cornered me outside her house)
You hear about the south and shotgun weddings? Well I wasn't going to get tied down to that nonsense or get lynched for fucking the farmers daughter.
Memphis is seriously a doozy of a place, I got a biased perspective as I got my orbital tripod smashed with a brick whilst sleeping but I slashed one person with my knife so I guess we're even.