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0 pointssarchertech2h ago0 comments

Those things are only correlated with available resources and income though and we can look directly at that here.

There’s a difference between “there exists people there who are poor” and the state and local governments are poor.

https://taxfoundation.org/data/all/state/state-local-tax-col...

Louisiana is 32nd for tax revue per capita.

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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 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.

sarchertechOP1h ago

My 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.

SoftTalker1h ago

Right, 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.

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