The USA's Poverty Problem 

Polite suggestion- please reduce the volume of the background music. Maybe it's just me, but the narrator's soft-spoken voice was difficult to hear over the music. Yes I'm aware you have closed captions, and I appreciate them.

@@mathteacher1729 I agree, I think the music is too loud as well.

@@mathteacher1729I'm gay too buddy

Great info and animations but the music is too loud and distracting

I am from Texas, and while the cities (especially Austin) can be incredibly wealthy, rural areas are incredibly poor, especially along the Mexican border. Compare this to the northeast, where rural areas can be nice as well. I still am happy about all the growth here and am optimistic about the future.

Well said. You'll find that this is true everywhere else in the world as well. Only thing that differs really is how impoverished those in the countryside are.

Some rural folks/areas with the right culture did fine. The ones with hooting/hollering at v1olence and destruction, who think they're above hard work, don't read or study how to do farming or mechanic work better, etc...don't do well as the more focused, thinking ahead, studying, working hard rural folks. Thomas Sowell writes about this. The investing and working hard up front, and throughout, seen in the cultures and peoples who did agriculture in Wisconsin, saw them produce milk and cheese massively better than a lot of the south... Some of the southern farmers, even when they moved more northward to places with snow in the winter, couldn't be bothered building barns and doing the work to feed animals through the winter... they'd have skinny cows and pigs, with the cows not producing milk many months of the year. A culture of looking down at hard work, not planning ahead, not reading, etc.

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A good example is here in northwest Florida a common problem is that the millionaires and billionaires are right along the coast in the south of the counties whereas those in poverty are at the northern most side of the county. You can also see the money in these counties only being largely spent in the area around the city and just bare minimum maintenance being performed in the northern areas.

As someone who grew up in one of the poorest (and most rural) counties in Georgia and has recently begun attending UGA, I can definitely say that I agree with this statement. This is anecdotal, but I’ve noticed students from metro Atlanta and Athens live entirely different lives compared to students from elsewhere in the state, and as a result the difference in personality, speech, and appearance is incredibly stark.

As someone who was born and raised in Atlanta, has worked in Macon as well as south Georgian cities such as Albany, Fitzgerald, and Douglas, I concur with this statement. Metro Atlanta is like living in an entirely different world than the rest of Georgia.

I concur with this analogy

As someone who grew up in the Atlanta area and lives in New York now, I mostly agree, but there's still a general Southern feel to the Atlanta area and enough reminders of the South to distinguish it from the rest of the country (history, weather, prevalent culture). If I were to give an analogy, it's like the South/Georgia is Hungary or another Central/European country with a lot of rural areas. Rural Hungary would be the state outside of Budapest, where nearly everyone is Hungarian, speaks Hungarian, and generally follows the archetypes of Hungarian culture, while Atlanta still has Hungarian signage and hallmarks of Hungarian culture but has a lot more English/other foreign languages and more people who don't fit the usual archetype of a Hungarian person politically, culturally, and socially. Likewise in Southern metros like Atlanta there's enough to distinguish that you're not in the Northeast (like the Netherlands) or the West Coast (like Spain), but the Southern culture is watered down as compared to other parts of the state/region.

As someone who lives in New Orleans. You’re not the south

Yeah I thought SC was okay place then I visited other states and realized just how poor we were. The cities have a lot money but everywhere else? I'm so confused why so many people are moving here. There is so little economic opportunity. The average income is 40k while new homes average 200k for small townhouses. There is nothing here. Just left Florida and it was shocking that's what a wealthy state looks like. It's crazy how much infrastructure and effort they had.

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@@baronvonjo1929 I think the thing that catches peoples' attention is the low upfront cost of living. The weather's nice, and while I'm not a particular fan of SC's politics, I think I'd rather live in Colombia than Orlando.

Moved from SC to MA 3 years ago. Best decision of my life even with the housing availability here.

Yeah, it's pretty shocking. Like it's not the kind of poverty you'd see in more impoverished parts of poor countries, but it's shocking nonetheless.

I had to mute the video and use subtitles

Poor hearing is all.

too tiring i stopped the video...

Me too Had to give up

Lol no you need help

Our cities are poor af too wdym 😭

@@h0tb0i74Atlanta(southeast) to be very specific is a high gdp city. So not sure what cities you mean by “our”, that’s vague

Which let's be honest is an absolute disgrace in the world's richest country. It's "freedom" for the plutocrats only

That’s with any state, rural areas are dying all across the US.

There are very few places in the US that compare with the third world in terms of poverty. There are places in the Mississippi River delta that fit that, but it's a very small percentage of even the south as a region.

All Whitney did was make improvements to an already existing machine. Until this time cotton was not a major crop because of the difficulty of separating the cotton from the hulls. Slaves were for the most part much better treated than the northern factory workers. in many places such as New Orleans there were more free blacks than slaves and many who were slaves were so only in the nominal sense. Many of them conducted their own affairs and made their own money. About 26% of free blacks owned slaves while only ap. 5% of whites did.

@@marktapley7571Were the northern factory workers lynched and hunted down with dogs? Were they chained and sold at auctions?

​@@marktapley7571 your dumbest person I've ever met in my entire life. Free blacks did not own slaves. Free blacks barely owned anything. Not even a lot of white people owned slaves and you think that black people were just living large while the KKK was burning black people alive??

​@@marktapley7571most of the "free black people" who "owned" slaves only did so on paper. The slave that they owned, were family members, whose freedom HAD to be purchased. Not saying that there were not black land owners, who owned slaves in the traditional manner. Just dont think the 26% represents an accurate estimate.

That New England inventor DID NOT invent the cotton gin to decrease resilience on slavery 😂. The north relied on the cotton the south made to use it in factories. They def invented it so more cotton could be produced quicker so now slave can devote their time to something different to up cotton production.

It doesn’t help that Coal barons control WV. They’re invested in trying to save the coal industry and not interested in investing in new industries

They're politically misinformed? Have you ever thought that perhaps you've been misinformed? He killed a lot of industries and markets. Here's one from my hat: Cash for Clunkers. He single-handedly wrecked the used car market in the matter of a couple of years.

I agree. I'm from Louisiana, not far out of New Orleans. It's a similar story here, though with oil. Oil is still doing pretty well, but the state doesn't see much benefit because of conservative taxation structures. Someone pointed out to me once that while it means the average person doesn't see improvement in their lives, what it does do, in a weird, roundabout way, is make the politicians honest. They run on the idea that "government doesn't work," get into office, and make it so that government doesn't work for the average person. Then they say, "see, told ya!" And the average voter, instead of asking "well, how are you going to make it work?" Just goes "yeah, you're right"

The tech just isn't there right now. Even all the electric vehicles technically run on coal. Because that's where a large chunk of our electricity is converted from. The current problem with the U.S. is that instead of creating our own energy. We import a lot from overseas.

@@amberallen7809 Democrats govern Louisiana's high crime, high poverty cities and parishes, not conservatives. In 8 years of a liberal Democrat governor, Louisiana had negative economic growth and a decline in population. Louisiana's Democrat-governed cities have some of the worst poverty and worst murder rates in the country.

Florida is 🗑️

So many people don't know that, and will insist that Florida is in the South because of the compass. I have also heard people say that Atlanta isn't "The South" (tm) anymore either. I believe people are talking about so many people from other regions moving there, as they do in most of Florida, and changing the culture.

@@maryhildreth754 Atlanta Charlotte Raleigh Jacksonville Nashville are all southern cities culturally but economically are not like the south when people think of "the south" they think of poor cities in rural Louisiana or Mississippi

Economically I’d agree with you but culturally the state seems to fall right in line with the deeply conservative south. It’s hard to argue Florida doesn’t act like a southern state when you’ve got Ron desantis running things

Florida, the only state in the US where the further north you are, the more southern you are.

This has happened to most cities in America my friend. That’s what happens when people keep reproducing out of control. Our population has long been unsustainable and it has made every single thing worse.

​​​@@shasmi93Stop with the lies lmao. U.S. population is only supported by an impore of immigrants(legal and illegal). The hard truth is that as a civilization modernized more and more, citizens stop having children. The future for humanity isn't a overpopulation problem but a infertility problem.😂 we might just go extinct from a lack of birth.

@@shasmi93 If our population was unsustainable, wouldn't it be shrinking? Considering our geography is so similar to China, I would suspect that our population could eventually grow to match it.

I’m from a small town in Florida. Well it was a small town. Everything is being bulldozed for new homes, storage units, car washes, and dollar generals. The infrastructure is falling apart from all the people that live here now. All the growth is funneled into these building projects but nothing gets fixed

Tbf, that is pretty much true the world over. Cities are concentrations of people, wealth, and investment. You could analyze any region or any country and come up with exactly the comment you made.

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That's the growing wealth gap seen clear as day

Rural states claim that NYC is collapsing. LOL

All these states are Republican strongholds😂😂😂

As a Mississippian our healthcare system is bad.

Failure to realize why is astounding... Given its rural and has a lot of heavy industry those urgent care clinics are what save farmers, loggers, oilmen and other field workers lives. Where getting to a hospital or Doctor could take hours thus meaning some of those men and women die... But yeah it totally sucks

Fun Fact: 3 Doors Down, one of the most popular and recognizable post-grunge bands of the 2000s, is actually from Mississippi.

@@heathclark318 They were in fact not in rural Mississippi they were in Biloxi and Gulfport... Not places like Wiggins or Poplarville which ARE actually rural....

In Texas, the more eastern you go the southern it gets.

Also with so many illegal immigrants willing to work for way less money.

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@@usual-suspect edgy, dont cut yourself with that edge kid

@@nickg4564 Cuts like a Knife but it feels so Left

@@usual-suspect probably THE cringiest comment of 2024

“As someone who saw one place in this one state and then saw another place in this other state I can tell you for sure that my results are conclusive. “

Missouri is culturally southern everywhere except for KC and STL

How much it costs in electric bill a month for july month?

The North spends it on heating 🤣

Yep, save microstate tax havens the US per capita GDP is higher than all but about 3 European countries.

So many errors and omissions as to why the situation is what it is. But seeing a lot of the comments here as someone who just clicked this video, its very much an echo chamber

Wiki is wild

Never really understood the Red v Blue divide being solely about North v South. Plenty of Midwestern States are deeper red than the South, and they have better economic/income numbers, higher IQ, and sometimes even better education standards, than not just the Red South, but the Blue North. Utah is a pretty successful state, as just an example, but people's negative attitudes towards Mormons seems to make people never consider that

@@JohnD-zh9st, slavery.

Blacks tend to vote for those Democrats who give them such horrible public schools. In Louisiana, school systems governed by Democrats have are some of the worst public schools in the country. School systems governed by Republicans are almost always much better than Democrat-run systems.

More or less. Kentucky was a slave state. But opted to stay in the union for the simple reason of not wanting to be the frontline.

Actually Kentucky initially seceded but the Confederate government was forced to flee the state capital when the Union Army invaded

@@BoaConstrictor126 Sort of. In the 1861 election, most of the state congressional seats went to Union sympathizers. In September 1861. Kentucky was admitted into the Confederate States of America on December 10, 1861. The provisional government in Bowling Green lasted a mere three months as Confederate forces, along with Governor Johnson, retreated to Tennessee in February 1862. Kentucky was never a full-fledged member of the Confederacy. What's more, it's largest city, Louisville, was always a Union base. FYI: I grew up in Louisville.

Maryland never seceded either.

West virginia is one of the richest state but poorest population Due to covid, more people from the cities are starting to realize how shitty the area is but with some of the cheapest homes

Even the likes of Robert E Lee, a Virginian, was not very excited about the idea of the Union breaking apart. Virginia was the intellectual and industrial basis of the CSA during the Civil War, so it's a pretty mixed bag.

Yea Virginia geographically is in the middle of the East Coast

Depends on what part of the south you are talking about. Upper GA, central/south Florida, then relatively less than say NY, San Francisco but still expensive

Thats because you can't get blood from a turnip!

Exactly. GDP is a measure of money supply and money velocity, not actual wealth. People who are in possession of a lot of money that is borrowed are actually poorer than people who are in possession of less money but are debt free. People who make videos do not have the basic understanding of economics.

Yep look at California for the details.

Facts. I’m so sick and tired of hearing people talk about GDP. It means nothing for the average person.

Just like when Britain colonized India and had increased their GDP while Indians were malnourished to the bone.

income doesnt matter. cost of living matters. and lower incomes may not mean much when the cost of living is dramatically cheaper.

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Same in Atlanta. I’m one of the few actually Southerners here

GA is way more diverse with people from literally all over the US and internationally, same with Florida

I refer to the Midwest as the northern South 😅

The countryside generates wealth for the nation, cities print the money to buy it and thus, cities are rich and workers are poor.

@@user-cc7yv9xl2i That's certainly debatable; factories and stores are mostly in cities, and so are most workers. The countryside is where the necessary natural resources come from. Without cities, there are few stores and no consumer goods. Without farms and mines, there is nothing to make consumer goods with. Economic class is not a matter of urban/rural: it's a matter of worker or owner. Cities are not rich. Rich people (owners) are rich, and workers are poor. Business owners just happen to be in cities, where labour is cheapest and consumers are most numerous.

Sure it might produce a lot of wealth. But for whom? And it by far does not produce the most wealth.

​@@jakobgeigelclermontIn many areas waiters earn above what an average farmer does, corporations pay farmers just enough to not have farmers close shop, so they can sell their prodcts cheapers in cities and be better than other stores. It 100% is a rural vs urban thing, be it cultural, economic or politic. Also most farmers are business owners and have expensive equipment to work, yet they're dirt poor, so the owner vs workers analogy you make does not apply in this case (or many others).

the Mountain West has more extraction.

the federal government is entirely taken over by the rich people (i.e; it's an oligarchy). Rich people know the best source of ever increasing wealth is extracting it from poor people. Hence defund the IRS so it only has the staff and means to go after easy targets like poor people and never touch the big earners, i.e. the systematic cheaters. Just one example

I wondered about that as well Inakways heard up in the north it’s extremely expensive to live compared to where I’m at

Facts ! I’m from Georgia and moved to Seattle and it’s a mess . The homeless rate is off the charts . 📈

Industry moving to Texas isn't the same as industry moving to the south. What industry is moving to Alabama, Mississippi or North Carolina?

@@nataliekhanyola5669 Boeing moved all production to South Carolina not too long ago and many car companies are moving to Georgia, Tennessee, and Kentucky and there is quite a bit of manufacturing already in North Carolina. The Democrats anti-business tax codes are catching up to them. They’ve been drying up business for years. Chicago has had near constant negative growth in population since 1960. 800,000 people moved out of California between 2021-2022. Mostly coming to Texas and Florida. It’s the new population trend

@@thewestisthebest6608 boeing is dying company with continuous failed designs with a total lack of safety. Those car companies are moving a small amount of production to the south, bare in mind that car manufacturing as it used to be known is virtually dead in western nations. Most cars are produced abroad, with cheap labour and automation.

You think faith without thought and salve mentality play round in all this.

Blacks supported Obama, and Obama was best known for the transferring of wealth from the taxpayers to those who don't pay taxes. After Obama's transfer of wealth, the number of people living in poverty climbed to more than 50 million, a 50-year record.

What? Just in Alabama there is Mazda-Toyota, Mercedes, Honda, Hyundai and Airbus. In Huntsville NASA builds rockets and the FBI built a 2nd headquarters. Plus all of the automotive part manufacturers all over the state that suppy the auto plants here. that is just in Alabama. Your statement sounds like it came from 1970 instead of 2024.

But there are mountain tops for green energy production. Coal barons: the intractable problems always come down to powerful bad people (lookin' at you, Manchin et al.).

Yeah, if you look at a map the states that have the least amount of flat land are WV, NH, and VT. Of these, WV is the worst.

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You're talking about the guy who wanted the war in the first place?

the guy that let his generals burn down the few developed parts of the south? lol

​@@jtlegionnaire6310 the south let evil and greed cuase a war.

​@@WasFakestCenturyAesthetics your talking him destroying the evil confederate military and defending freedom.

@@jbone9900if you think that occupying a country that wants to be independent because it is pure evil ideology then surely you support 🇮🇱 correct? Because it is essentially the same thing

Gdp per capita, India has a bugger gdp but is poor. Also median rather than avg wages which let's a person know what the avg Joe makes which is more than 2x more (closer to 3x) in the ne vs the south

@@NadeemAhmed-nv2br and? South is simply cheaper, which is why so many northerners are fleeing south. Northerners always brag about how much richer they are up north, but are always planning an escape to somewhere cheaper - many of them are planning to run to third world countries. I know one who moved to Brazil and is always telling people about how Brazil is more tolerant and less dangerous than the USA (????)

before the Civil War! Many southerners didn't have shoes and so parasites would enter their bare feet and drain them of blood.

What is political hold it back?

That might change somewhat. A VW plant in Tennessee recently voted to unionize. If auto plants in the south start unionizing it might make other southern workers to demand more rights too.

No, it’s a shit hole.

I expect nothing less from a Red coat

Are the ones that bristle usually from Austin or Dallas?

Not sure why y'all have issue with being lumped in with us. Georgia loves Texas.

also 2:10 - "the north was not reliant on slave labor"-- It was reliant on the slave labor in the south. Where do you think the cotton in those factories came from?

WV was, on paper, a part of union but over half of its soldiers fought in favor of the confederacy. Southern WV and all of the counties bordering Virginia voted in favor of seceding from the union. Most West Virginians consider themselves southern.

@@claussenmusic No, the north was only reliant on *cotton* from the south. The cotton never had to be harvested by slaves as far as the north was concerned, it could have been harvested by anyone for all they cared. The south could have used any other form of labor besides slavery but chose not to.

​@@alexrogers777 The factory owners in the North enjoyed the fat margins of slave labor as much as the plantation owners in the South did. There is a reason why immigrants are used to harvest agricultural products to this day, and it's because they work for less...

Whatever that's laughable Newsome is so incompetent he couldn't find his own ass with both hands wanting to sign everybody on to the government's books take care of them from cradle to grave so they're beholden to government for everything but they have no clue how to be fiscally responsible and all the other traditionally blue states are flipping red

Alaska, Rhode Island, and New Mexico are the top federally dependent states in the USA. Your bigotry is showing

This isn't it lol

Living in the rural south, that's not how it is at all. Sure seasonal jobs exist. My hometown is flooded with migrant workers. But you think people just don't work the rest of the year? You think most people are seasonal workers? Most workers aren't in agriculture at all, they're a minority 😂

@@austinhernandez2716 US rural is poor you can't deny that it's 5s trip into Google. I didn't say most people are like this neither poverty rates are higher than 50%.

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@@austinhernandez2716 No, I've lived in the rural south, most of you really are unemployed bums. The map of which states take the most welfare proves it

PakmanBrunner Our cities need work *baltimore but overall we're very successful state.

Isn't that mostly because of the DC metro area?

@@Deadlynk6489 Yes but DC was part of Maryland before we gave up the territory. Also yes NOVA is also helped by DC metro

That and Delaware. Like *Baltimore* we have Wilmington but everything else is pretty damn good.

Maryland shouldn't be The South. It's part of the Northeast Corridor. Maryland also did not try to secede from the Union so as for why anyone would consider Maryland the South is beyond me.

It wasn't made for that sure. But in the coming years it would serve as the divding line. It and the ohio river were the north-south cutoff. Which is why the union armies two biggest armies were named the army of the ohio and the army of the potomac. Two rivers that split north from south.

Oh damn that's a good catch

It’s covered up by the county outlines I think

Aeted it sorry

In Michigan I think.

Lake Michigan isn't real and neither is Michigan. Wake up, people

GDP per captia is a fair measurement, because of population. Like I hate when people use it, because the US has hundred of millions of people, while a country like Finland has just 5 million it not a a fair measure.

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This is incredibly misleading & he even essentially says in the video that this is a poor measurement on how well off a place & the people are there. This also doesn't take purchasing power parity (ppp) into account. The standard of living for the typical person in the UK is far higher than that of Mississippi & you haven't been to either place if you don't think so

@@ebrimajallow9631per capita means it’s adjusted for population.

@@hereticalgames3695 Only the number of the population. Not for wealth distribution within it. Saudi Arabia still has indigenous poor people, not to mention near-slave immigrants. The US middle class is shrinking and their ranking within it is going down, some regressing to lower classes.

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If you were GM I bet you would pay 8.2¢ per kWH.

@@undertone2472 I'll work on doing that and get back to you lol

And they keep them segrated

That's just the nonsense pushed by the prosperity gospel preachers.

Some parts of it are like austin and dallas culturally aren't.

Well there tends to be correlation between poverty and lower life expectancy…

We have a for profit healthcare system in the US, so less profit equals less access to healthcare, also a lot of southern states still haven’t passed Obamacare, coincidently those that have passed it have better health prospects

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Thats because of diet and health issues

Maybe its because they top in obesity, pollution and also less access to health care.

Ubiquitous State of Absurdity (USA) : Home of the Craven, Land of the Free-for-All.

Not crazy at all - infrastructure takes money to create and maintain. But it is the government that does those things and they get the money through taxes. Taxes have been going down since Reagan. Another thing that costs money is education. One of the biggest factors in the prosperity of a small town is education - which is paid from taxes. Those same poor areas are filled with voters that vote for tax cuts. They aren't left behind, they are reaping what they sow.

@recoil53 Well to be honest I'd vote for tax cuts because they don't do anything with out money to begin with I've noticed. Infrastructure is terrible. If they had good service's I would give more money. I guess technically cutting taxes won't help it. But it's obvious our taxes aren't being used in a good way.

@@baronvonjo1929 That's a backwards argument, but hey, you're the one that's left behind.

@@recoil53I mean why don’t u think think that I’m curious?

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Clown here -> ​@@usual-suspect

@@home_def In high school, I was the class clown. I guess that attribute stuck with me & got a tad bit edgier.

Dumb comment! Does anyone actually visit other places in the country? It seems like all the comments are stuck in a time warp from 70 years ago or in your case over 160 years ago. The South is not a monolith and neither are any of the other regions in the country. There is abject poverty in the rural South just like in any major metro area in the North. BTW, just in Alabama they build rockets, planes, cars and missiles so you can keep the cotton gin.

Spiritually rich while writing Jim Crow laws? Your high horse isn't as tell astall as you'd wish. Lol

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Arizona and Texas is hot the south east is humid

@ZaymiOoyoha Are you referring to me, the Original Usual Suspect? Keiser Sozè is at your service.

Native Floridians hate it. Drives the cost of everything up, and is turning Florida's beautiful nature to parking lots and apartments.

@@JohnD-zh9st It really does. I sold my condo for almost double what it would have been worth 5 years ago

@@htm000 Damn, what made you sell? Were you living in it or was it an investment? I know a guy who had one in Daytona who bought it for 76k, and every NASCAR weekend they made enough AirBnB'ing it to pay the mortgage off for the YEAR. Can't imagine the mortgage was that much at that price, but still. I do know homeowner's insurance and property taxes are skyrocketing there, but it sure would be nice to have a beachside condo that I can run off to at a moment's notice

@@JohnD-zh9st family member died, I didn't want to stay there anymore after that, and I was able to make a lot from the sale. Enough to get a nicer place in a different area

@@htm000 sorry to hear that. hope wherever your at now is treating you well

That lifestyle is overrated and overpriced, they can have it all.

Look up any metric discussed in this video broken down by race. The problems in the south are not so much the fault of republicans as they are the fault of blacks

Many of the Midwestern states vote the same way as the Deep South, yet they have better living standards, better education, and better incomes than the Deep South, and sometimes better than many Northern Blue states. What gives?

California: Yes, Florida, Texas.

On average, billionaire created 20k new jobs, so worth it

@zeppathy what hard evidence do you have of this claim?

It seems like you're just really uneducated on this subject tbh

Not true

Even if that were true, and I don't think it is, firing 15k minimum wage workers would save less than $300 million per year in wages.

Imagine if Republicans cared more about America and her people, instead of trying to assassinate the government.

and imagine if americans cared more about electing only good leaders. all of the choices we get are rotten to the core, on the take, in league with big biz

Those are also the areas with the most Blacks and Mexicans.

Hm, there are plenty of deeply conservative and religious states in the Midwest that don't have the issues you mention. Why?

One such business that is gaining traction in the south...Buc-ee's Dont mess with that beaver.

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Heavy economic reliance on a single industry

​@@bailbondsyesbailbondsSimple solution, don't lol

Well....bye...