Editing DeSoto County, Mississippi (section)

===21st century===
As part of the [[Memphis, Tennessee|Memphis]], [[Tennessee]] metropolitan area, the early-21st-century DeSoto County has become one of the 40 fastest-growing counties in the [[United States]]. That is attributed to suburban development as middle-class and wealthier blacks leave Memphis to acquire newer housing and commute to Memphis for work. Some observers have characterized the shift as [[black flight]], but it is also typical of the pattern of postwar suburban growth in which people who could afford it moved to newer housing in suburbs.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2011/feb/04/black-flight-propels-desoto/|work=Commercial Appeal|place=Memphis, Tennessee|title='Black flight' propels DeSoto County growth, census figures show|author=Henry Bailey|date=February 4, 2011|access-date=April 7, 2014}}</ref>

Such suburban residential development in the county has been most noticeable in the Mississippi cities of [[Southaven, Mississippi|Southaven]], [[Olive Branch, Mississippi|Olive Branch]], and [[Horn Lake, Mississippi|Horn Lake]]. Also stimulating development in the formerly rural area is the massive casino/resort complex, in the neighboring [[Tunica County, Mississippi|Tunica County]], which is the sixth-largest gambling district in the United States.{{citation needed|date=March 2017}}