California #1! ....in poverty says US Census Bureau (Sacramento: low income, home)

[oldtrader]

...or L.A., San Bernardino, Modesto, Barstow, Victorville, Redding, Oakland and any one of a number of areas and cities throughout California. I will refrain from spewing a pejorative here because I'm more mature than that and realize that all states have their bad neighborhoods and poverty pockets.

It is not just the more rural places in California you name with high poverty rates. The great city by the bay, San Francisco sees over 23% of the people living in poverty. Los Angeles at 26.9%, which means more than one in every four people in Los Angeles lives in poverty every day. And in the famous Orange County, almost 25% of the people living in poverty. Those areas that are supposed to be much better off, are worse than the areas you named calling them bad neighborhoods and poverty pockets. Those high roller areas of California are really the worst areas in the country for poverty rates, and far worse than the southern states. And none of these are rural, but the big city areas that some Californians keep pointing out as the most wonderful places to live in the United States, but fail to point out that a huge percentage of people living in those areas live in abject poverty and it is getting worse in those areas as jobs move out of state, and are followed by the middle class people, leaving the poverty stricken behind.

Map: California Poverty Rates by County <font color=#CD7100><i><strong>Interactive</strong></i></font>

[BayAreaHillbilly]

Originally Posted by Bulldogdad

That's what happens when you open the flood gates to illegals that can't speak the language, don't care about assimilation and enjoy a level of sucking at the teet of the public milk sac like at no time in the history of mankind.

I think that is yesterday's problem. I think the problem today is the Middle Class are being driven out of the state and the ones who've not escaped are being slowly ground down into poverty.

[RaymondChandlerLives]

Originally Posted by oldtrader

It is not just the more rural places in California you name with high poverty rates. The great city by the bay, San Francisco sees over 23% of the people living in poverty. Los Angeles at 26.9%, which means more than one in every four people in Los Angeles lives in poverty every day. And in the famous Orange County, almost 25% of the people living in poverty. Those areas that are supposed to be much better off, are worse than the areas you named calling them bad neighborhoods and poverty pockets. Those high roller areas of California are really the worst areas in the country for poverty rates, and far worse than the southern states. And none of these are rural, but the big city areas that some Californians keep pointing out as the most wonderful places to live in the United States, but fail to point out that a huge percentage of people living in those areas live in abject poverty and it is getting worse in those areas as jobs move out of state, and are followed by the middle class people, leaving the poverty stricken behind.

Map: California Poverty Rates by County <font color=#CD7100><i><strong>Interactive</strong></i></font>

This post only underscores how silly this supplemental measure is--anyone who thinks San Francisco has more poverty than the rural south is out to lunch. It's one of the most affluent cities in the country. If California was truly mired in poverty, the ability to climb the income ladder would be much harder here, but it's not. It's much easier. The areas with the worst social mobility are almost exclusively in the Deep South.



There is true poverty in California, no question, but 1# in the nation? Stick to the official measurement.

[things and stuff]

This should not be a surprise.


California does all it can to attract poor people and make sure they have everything paid for. If you're going to be poor, its best to do it in California. Somebody else will pay for it.

[Tulemutt]

Originally Posted by things and stuff

This should not be a surprise.


California does all it can to attract poor people and make sure they have everything paid for. If you're going to be poor, its best to do it in California. Somebody else will pay for it.

Just thought you'd drop in again for a minute from 2500 miles away to try out your same, tired, uninformed, clueless lines?

Prove it.

I don't mean parrot memes and talk-show themes. I mean really prove what you say. You've been asked dozens of times.

[LoriBee62]

Originally Posted by things and stuff

California does all it can to attract poor people and make sure they have everything paid for. If you're going to be poor, its best to do it in California. Somebody else will pay for it.

Obviously, Louisiana doesn't offer much if the residents of the state spend all their time obsessed with the goings on in California. What's wrong, Swamp People in reruns again?

[things and stuff]

Originally Posted by LoriBee62

Obviously, Louisiana doesn't offer much if the residents of the state spend all their time obsessed with the goings on in California. What's wrong, Swamp People in reruns again?

More ad hominem attacks because you don't like the truth. I'm not from Louisiana, btw but good job on generalizing and stereotyping. I bet you love and support southerners who stereotype blacks or latinos.

[things and stuff]

Originally Posted by Tulemutt

Just thought you'd drop in again for a minute from 2500 miles away to try out your same, tired, uninformed, clueless lines?

Prove it.

I don't mean parrot memes and talk-show themes. I mean really prove what you say. You've been asked dozens of times.

The proof is that California is now #1 in having the most people in poverty per capita.

It's pretty obvious that undocumented immigrants, unskilled, unemployed, underemployed, and uneducated people are drawn to California.

[Tulemutt]

Originally Posted by things and stuff

More ad hominem attacks because you don't like the truth. I'm not from Louisiana, btw but good job on generalizing and stereotyping. I bet you love and support southerners who stereotype blacks or latinos.

No. You're not FROM Louisiana. But you live there now. And you're not from California either. Point being, you don't know what you are talking about here, and that results in the spread of damaging misinformation. This web forum exists to help people. Not lead them astray.

[LoriBee62]

Originally Posted by things and stuff

I bet you love and support southerners who stereotype blacks or latinos.

I don't even know what that means, but given I'm talking to someone in New Orleans who spends his day sitting on the internet bashing California for some bizarre reason, I'm not going to spend much time pondering it.

My guess is this fascination with California is just more conservative agenda, rednecks trying to convince everyone that the liberal states suck, and presuming folks are stupid enough not to check facts. That might work where you're from, but out here, people are slightly smarter than a hamster.