alt Hacker NewsMy 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.
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/me...
Or here...
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.