alt Hacker NewsIt’s looks poor because there are some very poor people living there because they are the descendants of slaves and share croppers who are still suffering as a result of that.
However if you have look at average incomes and state revenue which represents the resources available, which was the what I was responding to.
Whether they chose to use those resources is a different question.
Also even looking at something like average or median personal income, Louisiana ranks in or near the top 20 counties in the world.
What you’re seeing is that America has a terrible safety net so the floor is much lower than most of Europe.
From the panhandle of Florida all the way through Port Arthur in Texas that area is one of the poorest places in the United States. It’s not even close.
And anyone that could get out they left a long time ago very happy my parents decided to leave that part of the world, the best thing that could’ve happened to the south is that everything from Virginia to South Carolina is gentrifying.
The sad part is that a large part of the population don’t realize that the conservative upper end of the population is selling out the conservative lower end.