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Why don't you just take your hate back to the Northeast. You have to be a miserable person on the inside with all of that unnecessary hate within you.
I don't see how that post is hating. Although the monogram thing did start in the north, it's very popular in the south for women and "southern belles"
Exactly! This red state blue state thing is BS anyway most are nearly half and half. Seems like some need to buff up on their education because they really don't know the whole picture.
This makes no sense. If every state was half and half every state would be purple......
Here's the 2014 census data on median household income for non-Hispanic whites by state. Southern states in bold.
Maryland 82,846
New Jersey 82,182
Alaska 80,656
Connecticut 78,959
Massachusetts 75,598
California 73,017 Virginia 70,878
Hawaii 70,259
New York 68,283
Colorado 67,360
New Hampshire 67,318 Texas 65,786
Delaware 65,361
Minnesota 64,824
Illinois 64,349
Utah 63,994
Washington 63,519
North Dakota 61,864
Rhode Island 61,406
Wyoming 60,360 Georgia 57,555
Pennsylvania 57,540
Nevada 56,514
Wisconsin 56,083
Kansas 56,010
Nebraska 55,976
Arizona 55,321
Iowa 55,243 Louisiana 54,940
Vermont 54,640
Michigan 53,496
New Mexico 53,422
South Dakota 53,187
Oregon 52,915
Ohio 52,815 North Carolina 52,759
South Carolina 52,356 Florida 52,321
Indiana 52,105 Oklahoma 51,525
Missouri 51,383 Alabama 50,076
Maine 50,041
Idaho 49,536 Mississippi 48,844
Tennessee 48,218
Montana 48,005 Arkansas 45,456
Kentucky 45,179
West Virginia 41,673
How much a person makes is not as important as what that money will buy or how much of the money goes for taxes. Interesting that you have West Virginia in bold letters saying it is from the South. Where were you educated? West Virginia separated from Virginia because Virginia is Southern and West Virginia is a Northern State.
We go for a vacation to timeshares every year. Drive around the country and you can see who lives better. I have found the people in Arkansas, Virginia, Alabama, Oklahoma, North Carolina and Tennessee live in better surroundings than many parts of the country. And how on earth did Montana get so far towards the bottom of that list. Montana has some of the richest people in the nation.
That is not necessarily true. In 1972 North Carolina got its first Republican governor since the Civil War. The presidential election is not the same politics as the state and county elections where you know the people running. North Carolina really mixes it up on state and local elections. Our town does not mention party in our elections. We have a Democrat mayor and a mixture of parties in the city council but most people don't even know that because we vote for the person. I only know it because I know the candidates personally.
Threads like these are always about politics but if people would stop moving out of the northeast and upper midwest they would stop losing seats. I know my state is one of the out migration states, and I know why as well. Maybe some of it has to do with a better tech and stem economy down south and better weather and beaches but alot of it has to do with high taxes, unions, government corruption and bad government and a welfare state up north combined with a high cost of living .
Basically huge levels of government spending, huge and generous welfare benefits, forced-union requirements?
Why dont we have a thread on this massive loss of population in the north to the sunbelt and the south and what created the the rust belt?
Its amazing to see this massive demographic change to the south and no one seems willing to talk about why. Southern and Sunbelt states dominate these positive outlooks for economies , rust and frost belt states all seem to be on the bottom.
"This study measures what might be the most important demographic trend in America: the huge shift of economic resources from blue states to red states. "
there is a great quote from "rich state poor state" ,
"Welfare benefits in many Northeast
states pay the equivalent of a $32,000 a year
salaried job.
Former Pennsylvania Secretary of
Public Welfare Gary Alexander found that a single
mother of two in the Keystone State is better off
working a job that pays $29,000, than a job that
pays $69,000.
When you add the government
benefits ($28,327) that come with the $29,000
job, the result is $57,327 in net income.
If the
same mother worked a job that pays $69,000,
after taxes she would only take home $57,045,
which would disqualify her from receiving government
assistance.
Strikingly, Pennsylvania is not even among the
most generous states in the Northeast in terms
of providing public assistance."
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The southern states along the eastern seaboard. 2012 pres election
VA- -57% DEM 48% REP
NC 51% REP 48% DEM
SC 51% REP 44% DEM
GA 53% REP 45% DEM
FLA 50% DEM 49% REP
YIKES... DAT AIN"T red or blue dats PURPLE YIKES!
Anyway to act as voting red is a bad thing is is ridiculous. Are you one that thinks everyone should voter like you? This is America not a communist country.
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