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Try 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/visualizat

by TylerE 5mo ago

Try 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 ago
Did 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 ago
  If I ignored it why did I address it in my very first sentence?
  - sarchertech 5mo ago
    You 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.