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It doesn't even have to be by state. PA is Philadelphia at one end, Pittsburgh at the other, and Pennsyltucky in between. I sort of do appreciate the novel di
by mbg721 5y ago
It doesn't even have to be by state. PA is Philadelphia at one end, Pittsburgh at the other, and Pennsyltucky in between. I sort of do appreciate the novel dismissal of "a ton of poor white people with drug addictions and poor education" as opposed to "a ton of poor white people whose previously-vibrant relationships got mercilessly ploughed over", because that's the exact thing that happened with black neighborhoods.
- weezin 5y agoI don't really get your point, I wouldn't call it a dismissal. Not all areas of white poverty were once "vibrant".
- stjohnswarts 5y agoIt's not just Pennsylvania, it's like that in most states. The further you get from the cities the poorer people get. Of course there are some exceptions like smaller tourist rich towns or oil rich towns like in Montana/Texas/Oklahoma, but those are pretty rare.
- rayiner 5y agoPennsylvania is a good illustration of this. It was a prosperous state that now has lots of problems. Back when it was exporting steel around the world, that kept (mostly white) folks in the middle of the state working, but also the many Black communities in the port cities of Philadelphia and Wilmington (in DE). Globalization destroyed those jobs leaving the highly visible poverty in those cities, but also the less visible poverty in the rest of the state. And my modest assertion is that the racial diversity of the consultants doing that outsourcing doesn’t matter and is besides the point.