State Line Mob
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The State Line Mob was an association of "criminal elements" created by the media that operated in the 1950s and 1960s at the Mississippi–Tennessee state line in Alcorn County, Mississippi, and McNairy County, Tennessee, along U.S. Route 45. The State Line Mob were accused of being involved in bootlegging, gambling, prostitution, tourist fleecing, robbery, and murder, although there is little to support this other than bootlegging charges. Gambling was negligible according to FBI documents.
The "organization" owned and operated motels, restaurants, and clubs at the Mississippi–Tennessee state line and in the northern portion of Alcorn County, just north of Corinth, Mississippi. The Primary owners were Jack and Louise Hathcock, Carl Douglas "Towhead" White, and W.O. Hathcock.
The State Line Mob gained national attention throughout the 1960s for its ongoing feud with controversial McNairy County Sheriff Buford Pusser. The film Walking Tall and its sequels were based on Pusser's war against the so called "State Line Mob" and other criminal elements.
State Line Mob is also a southern rock, country duo group from Muscle Shoals, Alabama. Their song titled "McNairy County Line" was written about Buford Pusser and the State Line Mob Outlaws of that era. The song can be found on their debut CD Ruckus.
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