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Feels more than a bit cherrypicked. There is also not much daylight (less than $1000) between them, and, once again, dead last. They're also, once again, dead
by TylerE 5mo ago
Feels more than a bit cherrypicked. There is also not much daylight (less than $1000) between them, and, once again, dead last.
They're also, once again, dead last in economic oppurtunity.
Frankly, I call bullshit on your interpretation. Have you ever set foot in Louisiana? I've lived in the deep south my entire life.
The entire south, outside of a few cities is generally pretty poor, but Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi is just a different level. That's what happens when you elect a bunch of MAGA morons.
PS: The local governments are doing everything possible to NOT help their citizens.
- SoftTalker 5mo agoRight, Louisiana was an affluent state until MAGA came along a few years ago. That region has been impoverished since the Civil War, and even before.
- TylerE 5mo agoObviously not, but the current administrations method for getting out of a hole is to yell at the workers to dig faster while passing another tax cut for the big corps and billionaires.
- sarchertech 5mo agoMy wife is from Baton Rouge, her whole family still lives there and in New Orleans, and I’ve been there a couple weeks out of every year we’ve been married. I’m also from the Deep South and I’ve traveled extensively through the US. Most of the rural south is indistinguishable from rural Pennsylvania or most other rural part of the US. The main difference in the Mississippi Delta region is that the population is mostly Black descendants of former slaves who are still suffering the after effects of slavery and subsequent generations of sharecropping. But the state still has plenty of resources compared to just about anywhere else in the world. >less than $1000 $1000 is 20% of the entire per capita amount. Louisiana is only $1000 behind Colorado and Rhode Island.
- TylerE 5mo agoTry actually looking at the data. Average household incomes are about $10-15k/yr higher in rural PA than in rural LA. https://www.census.gov/library/visualizations/interactive/median-household-income.html https://www.census.gov/library/visualizations/interactive/me... Or here... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lowest-income_counties_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lowest-income_counties... 14 of the 20 poorest counties in the country are in Alabama, Louisiana, or Mississippi, and other than one in South Dakota, none of the 30 poorest are outside the South. Only 4 of the top 50 are from outside the South. It really is a different level of poverty.
- sarchertech 5mo agoDid you just ignore this entire paragraph >Most of the rural south is indistinguishable from rural Pennsylvania or most other rural part of the US. The main difference in the Mississippi Delta region is that the population is mostly Black descendants of former slaves who are still suffering the after effects of slavery and subsequent generations of sharecropping.
- TylerE 5mo agoIf I ignored it why did I address it in my very first sentence?
- sarchertech 5mo agoYou ignored the part where I said “most of the south” and then highlighted that the Mississippi delta is uniquely bad. Then you have me a bunch of example counties in that region as proof that I was wrong. Which I assume means you either skipped over what I said or didn’t comprehend it.
- Danox 5mo agoLyndon B. Johnson said it best I won’t repeat it…