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The North is richer, lives longer (higher life expectancy), is more educated, more innovative and largely subsidizes Southern dysfunction through Federal taxation. The "Human Development Index" is much higher in the Northern U.S.
Why keep the laggards on the Federal payroll? To boot - the South continues its stupidity: racial and class based social stratification and disenfranchisement; anti-science/anti-intellectualism/anti-innovation/anti-women/anti-progress/etc.
Why can't we just let the American version of the Middle East go? What value are they bringing the North? Oil? Fracking? Cheap everything? Let the radical Christian right have their utopia. (fyi - I feel bad for those stuck in the political culture down there, as I know many great Southerns that don't fit the stereotype. How unfortunate.)
It's exhausting seeing the never-ending battle continue down South. While Silicon Valley is busy creating driverless cars, Seattle curing cancer through immunotherapy - the South is debating legal decisions decided 30+ years ago and re-writing public school books to include creationism. Good riddance.
I should also note it's sad to see once great states like Michigan and Wisconsin take on this inherently southern flavor.
Just think about it:
North:
Silicon Valley: Technology capital OF THE WORLD. Driverless cars, your smart phone, biometrics, bio-tech, robotics, human-computer interaction, radical life extension, futurism
San Francisco: hippie counter-culture, sexual revolution, anti-war movement, gay rights, women's rights
LA: everything on your TV and in your theater
NY: financial center of the World; fashion capital; all of your media
Boston: International center of higher education: Harvard, MIT, BU, BC, Brandeis, etc.; bio-technology
Minneapolis: medical manufacturing; highest life expectancy in the U.S.
Seattle/Portland/Madison/Chicago/etc.
Seattle, San Francisco, Silicon Valley, Portland, and Los Angeles are all, in my estimation, in the west. They have very little in common with the rust belt and the northeast.
you should probably replace them with cities like Baltimore, Syracuse, Detroit, St. Louis, or beautiful Cleveland.
Having grown up in the NE and midwest, I'd have to say the OP is mistaken. Not just mistaken, but backwards. WNY (my stomping grounds) is mile after mile of closed, rusting factories, Buffalo, Rochester, etc. Detroit, Flint and much of "industrial" Michigan is the same, as is much of the entire state of New Jersey. Chicago is burdened with a horrible violent crime rate, and face it, other than the business "core" of downtown, is a dump. NYC is little better, becoming more and more a national laughingstock with some of the idiotic rules and regulations being passed by the cities leaders.
In contrast, business and industry in the south, especially manufacturing, is booming. In fact, the only real problem area in the south that I think about is New Orleans...which happens to be the area with the largest Democrat presence.
The Southern USA is dysfunctional how exactly? Certainly no problems for anyone who wants to start a business, or someone who doesn't care to leech off welfare.
My gosh - you genuinely don't know that the South is the biggest welfare-sucking region in the whole country? There are still people who buy into that Southern self-sufficiency fable? Of the 20 states that suck the most money out of the rest of the country, 16 of them are strongly Republican states, and 12 of them are in the South. The only ones not on the list are Georgia (a pure outlier) and Florida. The only reason most of the South isn't bankrupt and staving in the streets is because they "leech off welfare." It's the only thing keeping them solvent - some of them suck up as much as twice as much tax money from the Federal government as they pay in, and in some cases even more than that. The biggest welfare "black hole" in the country is the South.
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Originally Posted by Manimuni
And I can't help but notice a lot of big cities. I'll bet a lot of people in the rural areas of those states wouldn't mind those overpriced Democrat cities being hacked off. Then we'd have more red states.
Yeah, you're have more bankrupt states is what you'd have. Most of the Red states literally could not survive without the money they get from the Blue states - in other words, those "lazy liberal" states are the ones working their asses off to support the "hardworking, self-sufficient" Republican states with their tax dollars. Bet Rush never mentioned that, did he?
Republican states in general, and Southern states in Particular, are an anchor that drags down the entire rest of the country economically, culturally, and intellectually. It's a pure and simple fact, no matter how many times you hear some ignorant redneck who can't even spell the model of his pickup truck boast about how people in the South "do for their own."
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The South has been developing at a pretty rapid rate over the rust belt north. Cities like Atlanta, Houston, Austin, Charlotte, Nashville, DC, Miami, OKC, NoLa, have improved and it's no longer just fly country.
The OP is a troll, most of the places he mentioned are out West or in the northern Midwest.
The North is richer, lives longer (higher life expectancy), is more educated, more innovative and largely subsidizes Southern dysfunction through Federal taxation. The "Human Development Index" is much higher in the Northern U.S.
Why keep the laggards on the Federal payroll? To boot - the South continues its stupidity: racial and class based social stratification and disenfranchisement; anti-science/anti-intellectualism/anti-innovation/anti-women/anti-progress/etc.
Why can't we just let the American version of the Middle East go? What value are they bringing the North? Oil? Fracking? Cheap everything? Let the radical Christian right have their utopia. (fyi - I feel bad for those stuck in the political culture down there, as I know many great Southerns that don't fit the stereotype. How unfortunate.)
It's exhausting seeing the never-ending battle continue down South. While Silicon Valley is busy creating driverless cars, Seattle curing cancer through immunotherapy - the South is debating legal decisions decided 30+ years ago and re-writing public school books to include creationism. Good riddance.
I should also note it's sad to see once great states like Michigan and Wisconsin take on this inherently southern flavor.
Just think about it:
North:
Silicon Valley: Technology capital OF THE WORLD. Driverless cars, your smart phone, biometrics, bio-tech, robotics, human-computer interaction, radical life extension, futurism
San Francisco: hippie counter-culture, sexual revolution, anti-war movement, gay rights, women's rights
LA: everything on your TV and in your theater
NY: financial center of the World; fashion capital; all of your media
Boston: International center of higher education: Harvard, MIT, BU, BC, Brandeis, etc.; bio-technology
Minneapolis: medical manufacturing; highest life expectancy in the U.S.
Seattle/Portland/Madison/Chicago/etc.
What a racist, white elitist statement to make!
Mississippi for example. Mississippi is 37 percent black, while non-Hispanic whites are 58 percent of the population.
In America 38% of people in poverty are white and 39% are black. blacks make up 13% of the population but get 39% of the welfare kitty......whites make up 70% of the population and receive 38% of the welfare kitty.....so for every one white family on welfare there are seven black families on the welfare
Why are so many "educated" northern whites such racist bigots while putting on the mantle of not being so?
I suppose the next thing to do is to point out the failure of Detroit schools attributing it to race?
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