Most of what is farmed in Mississippi and the rest of the country isn’t food that goes on Americans’ tables. It is soybeans grown for animal feed, corn grown for ethanol, rice grown to export to Central America and so on. The fruits and vegetables that Mississippians eat are probably grown in California or in other countries.
That’s not “the big lie”, that’s just bigger capitalists extracting from smaller ones. Namely large finance capitalists extracting from smaller bourgeois. It is very transparent, they even write the numbers down on the contracts they sign.
This does not change the fact that class is one’s relation to production, not their balance sheet. Nearly every small business tyrant’s business is in debt. Yet they have the relation of an owner, not a worker whose labor is exploited.