The USA's Poverty Problem
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Polite suggestion- please reduce the volume of the background music. Maybe it's just me, but the narrator's soft-spoken voice was difficult to hear over the music. Yes I'm aware you have closed captions, and I appreciate them.
@@mathteacher1729 I agree, I think the music is too loud as well.
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Great info and animations but the music is too loud and distracting
For most of the states, the wealth is concentrated in a few metro areas. Outside those areas, it is easy to find examples of pure poverty. Sometimes the economic disparity is evident right across the street.
I am from Texas, and while the cities (especially Austin) can be incredibly wealthy, rural areas are incredibly poor, especially along the Mexican border. Compare this to the northeast, where rural areas can be nice as well. I still am happy about all the growth here and am optimistic about the future.
Well said. You'll find that this is true everywhere else in the world as well. Only thing that differs really is how impoverished those in the countryside are.
Some rural folks/areas with the right culture did fine. The ones with hooting/hollering at v1olence and destruction, who think they're above hard work, don't read or study how to do farming or mechanic work better, etc...don't do well as the more focused, thinking ahead, studying, working hard rural folks. Thomas Sowell writes about this. The investing and working hard up front, and throughout, seen in the cultures and peoples who did agriculture in Wisconsin, saw them produce milk and cheese massively better than a lot of the south... Some of the southern farmers, even when they moved more northward to places with snow in the winter, couldn't be bothered building barns and doing the work to feed animals through the winter... they'd have skinny cows and pigs, with the cows not producing milk many months of the year. A culture of looking down at hard work, not planning ahead, not reading, etc.
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A good example is here in northwest Florida a common problem is that the millionaires and billionaires are right along the coast in the south of the counties whereas those in poverty are at the northern most side of the county. You can also see the money in these counties only being largely spent in the area around the city and just bare minimum maintenance being performed in the northern areas.
US poverty is much more divided by rural and urban sectors. The south has some of the wealthiest cities in the US, but outside of those urban areas it is mostly third world country poor.
Our cities are poor af too wdym 😭
@@h0tb0i74Atlanta(southeast) to be very specific is a high gdp city. So not sure what cities you mean by “our”, that’s vague
Which let's be honest is an absolute disgrace in the world's richest country. It's "freedom" for the plutocrats only
That’s with any state, rural areas are dying all across the US.
There are very few places in the US that compare with the third world in terms of poverty. There are places in the Mississippi River delta that fit that, but it's a very small percentage of even the south as a region.
One thing I have to say about Georgia is that Georgia is divided into two halves. You have Metro Atlanta where pretty much half of the states population lives, and you have Georgia. It is like living in a state within a state. It’s hard to explain unless you’ve lived here but living in Atlanta doesn’t feel like you are living in the south.
As someone who grew up in one of the poorest (and most rural) counties in Georgia and has recently begun attending UGA, I can definitely say that I agree with this statement. This is anecdotal, but I’ve noticed students from metro Atlanta and Athens live entirely different lives compared to students from elsewhere in the state, and as a result the difference in personality, speech, and appearance is incredibly stark.
As someone who was born and raised in Atlanta, has worked in Macon as well as south Georgian cities such as Albany, Fitzgerald, and Douglas, I concur with this statement. Metro Atlanta is like living in an entirely different world than the rest of Georgia.
I concur with this analogy
As someone who grew up in the Atlanta area and lives in New York now, I mostly agree, but there's still a general Southern feel to the Atlanta area and enough reminders of the South to distinguish it from the rest of the country (history, weather, prevalent culture). If I were to give an analogy, it's like the South/Georgia is Hungary or another Central/European country with a lot of rural areas. Rural Hungary would be the state outside of Budapest, where nearly everyone is Hungarian, speaks Hungarian, and generally follows the archetypes of Hungarian culture, while Atlanta still has Hungarian signage and hallmarks of Hungarian culture but has a lot more English/other foreign languages and more people who don't fit the usual archetype of a Hungarian person politically, culturally, and socially. Likewise in Southern metros like Atlanta there's enough to distinguish that you're not in the Northeast (like the Netherlands) or the West Coast (like Spain), but the Southern culture is watered down as compared to other parts of the state/region.
As someone who lives in New Orleans. You’re not the south
I would like to make one important point, this is not an overall trend from the north to the south, this is a trend from the north to the urban areas in the south. The rural areas still have to deal with tremendous poverty and racial issues.
Background music a bit loud. It drowned the narrating voice.
I had to mute the video and use subtitles
Poor hearing is all.
too tiring i stopped the video...
Me too Had to give up
Lol no you need help
Once you get out of the large Metros in the South the evidence of poverty in rural areas is shocking. I was stunned at the level of rural poverty in South Carolina.
Yeah I thought SC was okay place then I visited other states and realized just how poor we were. The cities have a lot money but everywhere else? I'm so confused why so many people are moving here. There is so little economic opportunity. The average income is 40k while new homes average 200k for small townhouses. There is nothing here. Just left Florida and it was shocking that's what a wealthy state looks like. It's crazy how much infrastructure and effort they had.
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@@baronvonjo1929 I think the thing that catches peoples' attention is the low upfront cost of living. The weather's nice, and while I'm not a particular fan of SC's politics, I think I'd rather live in Colombia than Orlando.
Moved from SC to MA 3 years ago. Best decision of my life even with the housing availability here.
Yeah, it's pretty shocking. Like it's not the kind of poverty you'd see in more impoverished parts of poor countries, but it's shocking nonetheless.
The cotton gin is not an example of Southern innovation. It was invented by a New Englander who thought the labor saving device would decrease reliance on slavery. Instead Southern plantations simply increased the use of slave labor in other areas of cotton production so they could feed even more material into the cotton gins.
All Whitney did was make improvements to an already existing machine. Until this time cotton was not a major crop because of the difficulty of separating the cotton from the hulls. Slaves were for the most part much better treated than the northern factory workers. in many places such as New Orleans there were more free blacks than slaves and many who were slaves were so only in the nominal sense. Many of them conducted their own affairs and made their own money. About 26% of free blacks owned slaves while only ap. 5% of whites did.
@@marktapley7571Were the northern factory workers lynched and hunted down with dogs? Were they chained and sold at auctions?
@@marktapley7571 your dumbest person I've ever met in my entire life. Free blacks did not own slaves. Free blacks barely owned anything. Not even a lot of white people owned slaves and you think that black people were just living large while the KKK was burning black people alive??
@@marktapley7571most of the "free black people" who "owned" slaves only did so on paper. The slave that they owned, were family members, whose freedom HAD to be purchased. Not saying that there were not black land owners, who owned slaves in the traditional manner. Just dont think the 26% represents an accurate estimate.
Rural towns all over America are in decay. Look across the mid west as well and other western states. Each state will have a dominant city or few which produces the lionshare of wealth
Tbf, that is pretty much true the world over. Cities are concentrations of people, wealth, and investment. You could analyze any region or any country and come up with exactly the comment you made.
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That's the growing wealth gap seen clear as day
Rural states claim that NYC is collapsing. LOL
All these states are Republican strongholds😂😂😂
As a kid who was born in Michigan but raised in Florida, I can definitely tell that the poverty level here is higher than the North.
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@@usual-suspect edgy, dont cut yourself with that edge kid
@@nickg4564 Cuts like a Knife but it feels so Left
@@usual-suspect probably THE cringiest comment of 2024
“As someone who saw one place in this one state and then saw another place in this other state I can tell you for sure that my results are conclusive. “
You should not use GDP per capita as a measure, you should use income instead. A lot of times, a high gdp per capita does not translate to higher average incomes.
Exactly. GDP is a measure of money supply and money velocity, not actual wealth. People who are in possession of a lot of money that is borrowed are actually poorer than people who are in possession of less money but are debt free. People who make videos do not have the basic understanding of economics.
Yep look at California for the details.
Facts. I’m so sick and tired of hearing people talk about GDP. It means nothing for the average person.
Just like when Britain colonized India and had increased their GDP while Indians were malnourished to the bone.
income doesnt matter. cost of living matters. and lower incomes may not mean much when the cost of living is dramatically cheaper.
I’m from West Virginia and the political/ economic climate here is very frustrating. The people are politically misinformed into believing Obama is to blame for coal dying, and are not welcome to economic innovation that doesn’t have to do with coal. And the low state tax that accompanies conservatism leads to the roads being terrible (especially considering the terrain), leading to less industrial opportunity. The political attitude is ultra counterproductive here
It doesn’t help that Coal barons control WV. They’re invested in trying to save the coal industry and not interested in investing in new industries
They're politically misinformed? Have you ever thought that perhaps you've been misinformed? He killed a lot of industries and markets. Here's one from my hat: Cash for Clunkers. He single-handedly wrecked the used car market in the matter of a couple of years.
I agree. I'm from Louisiana, not far out of New Orleans. It's a similar story here, though with oil. Oil is still doing pretty well, but the state doesn't see much benefit because of conservative taxation structures. Someone pointed out to me once that while it means the average person doesn't see improvement in their lives, what it does do, in a weird, roundabout way, is make the politicians honest. They run on the idea that "government doesn't work," get into office, and make it so that government doesn't work for the average person. Then they say, "see, told ya!" And the average voter, instead of asking "well, how are you going to make it work?" Just goes "yeah, you're right"
Error. Kentucky never seceded from the Union and West VA became a Union state after breaking away from Virginia.
More or less. Kentucky was a slave state. But opted to stay in the union for the simple reason of not wanting to be the frontline.
Actually Kentucky initially seceded but the Confederate government was forced to flee the state capital when the Union Army invaded
@@BoaConstrictor126 Sort of. In the 1861 election, most of the state congressional seats went to Union sympathizers. In September 1861. Kentucky was admitted into the Confederate States of America on December 10, 1861. The provisional government in Bowling Green lasted a mere three months as Confederate forces, along with Governor Johnson, retreated to Tennessee in February 1862. Kentucky was never a full-fledged member of the Confederacy. What's more, it's largest city, Louisville, was always a Union base. FYI: I grew up in Louisville.
Maryland never seceded either.
West virginia is one of the richest state but poorest population Due to covid, more people from the cities are starting to realize how shitty the area is but with some of the cheapest homes
I lived in Mississippi for 3 or 4 months back in early 2022, I had known Mississippi was the forest state in the union but seeing it first hand shook me. I saw more "urgent care" clinics in renovated gas stations then I did all doctors, dentist and other medical offices combined...
It’s simple. We have to spend all our money on running the AC all summer
Ummm sorry but this video is absolutely, positively not a surprise. The US south has been poverty stricken since, well, the US Civil War.
before the Civil War! Many southerners didn't have shoes and so parasites would enter their bare feet and drain them of blood.
I am from San Antonio and I just moved back last year. When I tell you everything has changed, i’m not lying. Places that were field 10 years ago are full of houses passed where you can see. Worst part is all the new development is built very cheap and it’s really brought the city down.
As someone living in Florida we are not in the south culturally or economically other then North Florida.
Florida is 🗑️
So many people don't know that, and will insist that Florida is in the South because of the compass. I have also heard people say that Atlanta isn't "The South" (tm) anymore either. I believe people are talking about so many people from other regions moving there, as they do in most of Florida, and changing the culture.
@@maryhildreth754 Atlanta Charlotte Raleigh Jacksonville Nashville are all southern cities culturally but economically are not like the south when people think of "the south" they think of poor cities in rural Louisiana or Mississippi
Economically I’d agree with you but culturally the state seems to fall right in line with the deeply conservative south. It’s hard to argue Florida doesn’t act like a southern state when you’ve got Ron desantis running things
Florida, the only state in the US where the further north you are, the more southern you are.
There's a huge mistake in the video, beacuse in the video it states that the US have 60.000$ ppp per capita where in reality the number is different. It is 80.000$ in the metric that you use for other countires. You can just check it out on Wikipedia.
Yep, save microstate tax havens the US per capita GDP is higher than all but about 3 European countries.
The one map the will always consider Missouri southern; poverty
As someone born and raised in Virginia, I will say that VA is South-ish. When I moved to Atlanta they considered me a Yankee but whenever I visited family in Pennsylvania they considered me Southern. I think that culturally we are somewhere in between. After all, Richmond was the capital of the Confederacy.
Even the likes of Robert E Lee, a Virginian, was not very excited about the idea of the Union breaking apart. Virginia was the intellectual and industrial basis of the CSA during the Civil War, so it's a pretty mixed bag.
As industry moves south this problem is getting fixed more and more. It’s the North and West where poverty continues to grow
I wondered about that as well Inakways heard up in the north it’s extremely expensive to live compared to where I’m at
Facts ! I’m from Georgia and moved to Seattle and it’s a mess . The homeless rate is off the charts . 📈
Texas isn’t exactly poor at the 2nd richest state. It’s just some rural regions in the east mainly, outside of that there isn’t that much. Although Texas is barely considered the south anymore, the west and south and north are so different from centeral and east Texas that they almost seem like different states.
Sometimes I use the term "Soft South" to refer to states that culturally are kind of southern but are also kind of something else. I can absolutely attest that the manufacturing here in South Carolina has gone up significantly since I was a child and here in Greenville it seems like people who have moved in from other states to fill these jobs are starting to outnumber people who grew up here to the point that I have to specify that I'm from the area.
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Same in Atlanta. I’m one of the few actually Southerners here
GA is way more diverse with people from literally all over the US and internationally, same with Florida
I refer to the Midwest as the northern South 😅
The "funny" part about this is that the southg is mainly where most extraction happens that produces extreme amounts of wealth in the country.
The countryside generates wealth for the nation, cities print the money to buy it and thus, cities are rich and workers are poor.
@@user-cc7yv9xl2i That's certainly debatable; factories and stores are mostly in cities, and so are most workers. The countryside is where the necessary natural resources come from. Without cities, there are few stores and no consumer goods. Without farms and mines, there is nothing to make consumer goods with. Economic class is not a matter of urban/rural: it's a matter of worker or owner. Cities are not rich. Rich people (owners) are rich, and workers are poor. Business owners just happen to be in cities, where labour is cheapest and consumers are most numerous.
Sure it might produce a lot of wealth. But for whom? And it by far does not produce the most wealth.
@@jakobgeigelclermontIn many areas waiters earn above what an average farmer does, corporations pay farmers just enough to not have farmers close shop, so they can sell their prodcts cheapers in cities and be better than other stores. It 100% is a rural vs urban thing, be it cultural, economic or politic. Also most farmers are business owners and have expensive equipment to work, yet they're dirt poor, so the owner vs workers analogy you make does not apply in this case (or many others).
the Mountain West has more extraction.
WV is such a strange case. It has pretty bad roads for industry (other than coal extraction), but the scenic beauty, low cost of living, and relative proximity to other big cities (Pittsburgh, DC, etc) should be great attractors for information-based industries. Run some fiber and you could really get some call centers going. But you'd have to break the political power of the coal barons, which is suuuuuuuper entrenched.
Great video man! Shared for sure!!
You have to take into consideration that the cost of living in the South is considerably lower that the West Coast and the North East.
Depends on what part of the south you are talking about. Upper GA, central/south Florida, then relatively less than say NY, San Francisco but still expensive
Being poor used to be a kind of “safeguard” against ridiculous federal taxes, but now that’s no longer true.
the federal government is entirely taken over by the rich people (i.e; it's an oligarchy). Rich people know the best source of ever increasing wealth is extracting it from poor people. Hence defund the IRS so it only has the staff and means to go after easy targets like poor people and never touch the big earners, i.e. the systematic cheaters. Just one example
There’s still alot of poor people in New York and los angelis
12:24 I would venture to guess those statistics include immigrants who arrived in the US after schooling age. TX and CA have the largest immigrant populations, and illegal immigrant populations, in the US. It wouldn't surprise me that if you took the data for only naturalized and natural-born US citizens (those who were in the US during schooling age), then states like MS, AL, AR would look much worse comparatively. As I don't think it would be accurate to take someone who immigrated (legally or illegally) at 24 who didn't receive a high school equivalent from their home country and count that as an uneducated worker for state educational purposes and comparisons, but it would be accurate for purely labor market statistics.
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Who would've thought that the death of the one guy who had good plans for rebuilding the South would lead to the South not being rebuilt
You're talking about the guy who wanted the war in the first place?
the guy that let his generals burn down the few developed parts of the south? lol
@@jtlegionnaire6310 the south let evil and greed cuase a war.
@@WasFakestCenturyAesthetics your talking him destroying the evil confederate military and defending freedom.
@@jbone9900if you think that occupying a country that wants to be independent because it is pure evil ideology then surely you support 🇮🇱 correct? Because it is essentially the same thing
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Our problem is that Southern politicians have been able to successfully blame these economic conditions on Northern politicians. This has given them cover and made them wealthy while creating the Red State v Blue State dynamic that is still ripping us apart and has been since our creation. From slavery at its inception to fighting unions today, wealthy Southern business rss and land owners have held back the poor and working class while amassing great wealth for themselves.
Love your videos mate but the background music in this one was way too loud. Couldn't hear you for half the video
Background music was very distracting. Couldn’t finish the video
The legacy of the Civil War.
What was the bridge in the very last shot at the end of the video???
What was that last bridge?
0:35 West Virginia is not really a part of the south. If you're going by civil war delineations, WV would be considered part of the north.
also 2:10 - "the north was not reliant on slave labor"-- It was reliant on the slave labor in the south. Where do you think the cotton in those factories came from?
WV was, on paper, a part of union but over half of its soldiers fought in favor of the confederacy. Southern WV and all of the counties bordering Virginia voted in favor of seceding from the union. Most West Virginians consider themselves southern.
@@claussenmusic No, the north was only reliant on *cotton* from the south. The cotton never had to be harvested by slaves as far as the north was concerned, it could have been harvested by anyone for all they cared. The south could have used any other form of labor besides slavery but chose not to.
Everyone needs to remember Mississippi still has higher GDP per person than the UK.
GDP per captia is a fair measurement, because of population. Like I hate when people use it, because the US has hundred of millions of people, while a country like Finland has just 5 million it not a a fair measure.
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This is incredibly misleading & he even essentially says in the video that this is a poor measurement on how well off a place & the people are there. This also doesn't take purchasing power parity (ppp) into account. The standard of living for the typical person in the UK is far higher than that of Mississippi & you haven't been to either place if you don't think so
@@ebrimajallow9631per capita means it’s adjusted for population.
@@hereticalgames3695 Only the number of the population. Not for wealth distribution within it. Saudi Arabia still has indigenous poor people, not to mention near-slave immigrants. The US middle class is shrinking and their ranking within it is going down, some regressing to lower classes.
5:50 - You're missing the cost of living index and taking into factor things like state income tax, or sales tax which affects the working poor more. As a native Texan, most of the poverty is concentrated on the border, though also outside the Texas triangle at large. And Texans tend to bristle when they're lumped in with the rest if the south.
Are the ones that bristle usually from Austin or Dallas?
Not sure why y'all have issue with being lumped in with us. Georgia loves Texas.
What is the og video?
5:17 According to the IMF, The USA is 8th in gdp per capita adjusted for Purchasing Power parity. I dont know where he is getting these numbers from.
Why is the volume of this video so low ?
Before all fabric and clothing production moved out of the US there was far less poverty in the South. People who lived in the South long enough can remember when nearly anyone could get a minimum wage job and after a year or so would earn a bit more than that. Once it all moved to Asia, though, there just weren't any jobs so naturally there's poverty
Nice thumbnail, but where is Lake Michigan?
Oh damn that's a good catch
It’s covered up by the county outlines I think
Aeted it sorry
In Michigan I think.
Lake Michigan isn't real and neither is Michigan. Wake up, people
Did the study that provided the rankings for education include the private school sector? This possibility has always given me doubts about South Carolina’s low ranking given the massive size of the private school sector with the academic excellence they require in Greenville County alone.
The music is far too loud.
Mason-Dixon line was not remotely about separating north from south or slave from free state; it was merely to reconcile border disputes between Maryland and Pennsylvania, which traced to contradictory monarchical landgrants (I think the one to Mr. Penn and the one to Lord Baltimore). It was originally merely about clarifying state boundaries. All other associations accrue incidentally thereafter.
It wasn't made for that sure. But in the coming years it would serve as the divding line. It and the ohio river were the north-south cutoff. Which is why the union armies two biggest armies were named the army of the ohio and the army of the potomac. Two rivers that split north from south.
This video significantly needed more dates from when data is being pulled and have it clearly listed visually.
Oil and gas is a major driver for economic growth in the South!
West Virginia is always gonna have these problems. It really comes down to the fact that there isn’t any land to build a large manufacturing hub or city on.
But there are mountain tops for green energy production. Coal barons: the intractable problems always come down to powerful bad people (lookin' at you, Manchin et al.).
And also most American citizens want a nice house and nice cars which are expensive so in America for those who aren’t not being able to afford expensive things is the same as having no money
The sound quality of your voice seems kinda bad in this video? Sounds like a cheap mic and it's very quiet compared to the BGM. I have to concentrate to understand what's being said when the BGM gets more intense
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California and Texas are not surprising. They both have a large number of migrants working in agriculture. These tend to be adults without high school degrees from countries where free education ends in middle school. Compare to New York and Mass. where migrants are most likely to have advance degrees.
Awesome video
Yep, ms sucks. No one move here. I need land prices to stay low so i can build my shire in the future.
If you're looking and comparing us per capita money earned then of course it's going to look that way. Yes we earn less than other areas, but our cost of living is also lower. It's really not as bad as this particular data point would suggest.
Flordidian here, most southerners scoff at the thought of us being a part of the south.
Floridian here. I never heard that before
this entire video besides the specific part about Wv should have an asterisks saying except Wv.
Very interesting video but the extremely loud background music was so irritating I only got 2 minutes into the video before writing this comment and then getting relief by exiting the entire video at the 2.17 minute.☹
The problem is rural regions are over populated in the south, it's relatively rich people already living in the major towns, when it's a small town which are the problem some people have only jobs during summer season when it's harvest season.
This isn't it lol
Living in the rural south, that's not how it is at all. Sure seasonal jobs exist. My hometown is flooded with migrant workers. But you think people just don't work the rest of the year? You think most people are seasonal workers? Most workers aren't in agriculture at all, they're a minority 😂
@@austinhernandez2716 US rural is poor you can't deny that it's 5s trip into Google. I didn't say most people are like this neither poverty rates are higher than 50%.
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@@austinhernandez2716 No, I've lived in the rural south, most of you really are unemployed bums. The map of which states take the most welfare proves it
Shows the Southern states as having the most poverty, meanwhile every major coastal city is full of homeless and poverty and half of the buildings look bombed out. Sure, OBF.
One factor might be that if you are deep in poverty you are more likely to move south because it is an easier climate to survive in. The north has winter and winter kills, winter is brutal, winter increases costs of life making living harder. Note I am not talking about urban areas which slightly alters the climatescape.
Winter Is Coming
Climate plays less importance than cost of living imo but could contribute some. Hot as Hell down here though.
If you have spent your life in the south I can understand but while it may be very hot the cold of winter kills as well as driving up the cost of living since you have to have a house capable of keeping out the cold and in the heat, fuel to heat the house, more food to heat yourself, specialized clothing and more to simply survive in the north. That said, I still prefer the north - no alligators. 😁
I love how my parish in Louisiana is surrounded on all sides by poor parishes. They all come here to shop and work so that is probably why
Mississippi will make that transition and become and economic powerhouse once again and the southern eastern and western regions of the United States will carry the country’s economy into the future
Considering that most of the highest-income counties in the nation are in Maryland and Virginia, there is a real issue with your definition of 'the south'. There are four separate, partially overlapping regions to consider. The deep south, the sun belt, and the Appalachian region are all mired in various amounts of poverty for different reasons. But the Mid Atlantic region, including Maryland, DC, Virginia, and parts of North Carolina, which you decided to include in the 'south', on the other hand is culturally and financially far different.
Same with GA and FL
Harder to be homeless in cold weather…obviously
I also consider the South to include all the states and territories that had slavery in 1860, not just the Confederacy. The map shows six non-Confederate states as part of the South. West Virginia broke away from Virginia in 1863, thus becoming a border state. Oklahoma was an unorganized entity called Indian Territory where Indians actually had slaves themselves and felt sympathy toward the Confederacy. The four other border states have always been considered so. Slavery and backwardness has always typified these regions. By the way, the cotton gin was not an exceptional southern invention because it was invented by a Connecticut Yankee.
0:05 what in the world is happening the Lake Superior and Michigan in this map
As a michigan resident i wish i was paying 8.2 cent per kilowatt hour
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If you were GM I bet you would pay 8.2¢ per kWH.
@@undertone2472 I'll work on doing that and get back to you lol
The American civil war has a big part to play in why the south is still poor to this day. However, where i see rundown towns...i see opportunities for revival. It will take money and rebuilding and businesses to take a chance to move in.
One such business that is gaining traction in the south...Buc-ee's Dont mess with that beaver.
Get Maryland off that map lol. We have the highest average income per household.
Half of MD Is a project lol
@@PakmanBrunner Our cities need work *baltimore but overall we're very successful state.
Isn't that mostly because of the DC metro area?
@@Deadlynk6489 Yes but DC was part of Maryland before we gave up the territory. Also yes NOVA is also helped by DC metro
That and Delaware. Like *Baltimore* we have Wilmington but everything else is pretty damn good.
The southern states that are growing fast are growing because of their metro areas. Their rural and small towns are still dying. The southern states like West Virginia, Mississippi, Alabama are mostly rural and don’t really have big metro areas (biggest city in WV has less than 50k). These rural states don’t have the workforce or infrastructure necessary to lure industries (and jobs) to them.
I see this as a opportunity to play monopoly
After visiting other states I realized that yup... I live in a poor area. The local city is booming and wealthy. My state is exploding in population and is in the top 5 largest growers. I realized all kinds of metrics like gdp are being carried by other states. So much is becoming unaffordable like homes and houses. Its crazy to me the average new car in the US is 50k when the average income in my state is 40k. The states and cities and rural areas are so different. It seems on paper people only focus on the better off states and the figures from cities. Millions s of Americans have been left behind and it does feel like a backwards poverty stricken place. Its crazy to me we are the richest country in the world with so much infrastructure decay and poverty.
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Not crazy at all - infrastructure takes money to create and maintain. But it is the government that does those things and they get the money through taxes. Taxes have been going down since Reagan. Another thing that costs money is education. One of the biggest factors in the prosperity of a small town is education - which is paid from taxes. Those same poor areas are filled with voters that vote for tax cuts. They aren't left behind, they are reaping what they sow.
@recoil53 Well to be honest I'd vote for tax cuts because they don't do anything with out money to begin with I've noticed. Infrastructure is terrible. If they had good service's I would give more money. I guess technically cutting taxes won't help it. But it's obvious our taxes aren't being used in a good way.
@@baronvonjo1929 That's a backwards argument, but hey, you're the one that's left behind.
@@recoil53I mean why don’t u think think that I’m curious?
Missouri isn’t south
No, it’s a shit hole.
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West Virginia is the misfit state of the US. It is not the South, but it's not the Northeast or Midwest either. It's Appalachian, but unlike the other Appalachian states to the south it has no flatlands where most of the people in those other states live. So what you end up with is the northern extreme of a mountain culture that's a secondary regional culture everywhere else in the South but which is the primary culture in West Virginia (and nowhere else).
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If you consider living in a $500,000 house that’s 3 feet from your neighbors in a subdivision with 1200 homes and a school in the center, two car notes and a 1 hour commute to a $150k+ a year job where you sit on your ass all day wealth…then I guess I’m poor. And I love it.
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Should be called why is California poor and inflation is insane and they borrow every year to make up their deficit in their budgets. I live In NC and Massachusetts is a hell hole compared to here. Take a tour of America go to liberal areas then go to conservative areas and tell me what you think.
Hmm, Boston appears much nicer than the town of Carthage, Mississippi. And I’ll argue that Atherton, California is nicer than Wilmington, NC
And mind you, liberal states tend to be more economically productive than conservative states, which tend to take more from the feds in lieu of taxes than give to the feds. Meanwhile, northeastern States such as New Jersey and Massachusetts heavily subsidize states in the south, such as Alabama, Mississippi, and the Carolinas.
@@sunshineimperials1600 Raleigh where I live is beautiful very clean and new they aren’t broke because of social programs like welfare. The homeless shelters around here have salad bars I know because I volunteer every week. Nobody sleeps on the streets in Raleigh. I grew up in a liberal shithole. All the factories closed and the place went to hell. They voted Raleigh the nicest and cleanest place in the country it is second for people moving here. So it’s only a matter of time they flip it blue and it turns to shit
Worker protection is terrible in the south, thats why its "booming" right now, a lot of these jobs are low wage. nc has the worst worker protection in the country
That might change somewhat. A VW plant in Tennessee recently voted to unionize. If auto plants in the south start unionizing it might make other southern workers to demand more rights too.
The Poverty problem isn't the south. Its in Appalachia
Appalachia is the poorest region. The problem is 2 is the Black belt and 3 is the ozarks. All in the south. Mountain infrastructure is hard to develop and the black belt ended up as a post slavery job trap.
The reason why most of these states are in the South has to do with urban renewal (highways), business flight, residents (rich white flight to urban areas), rich businesses not interested in building in these areas. And weather. I think,
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The mason dixon line wasn't the borders in the civil war, you even say so right after. Ai generated script?
You should let the Civil War movie sponsor.
Ah, to bask in the enlightenment that poverty, in all its whimsical variety, has elected the Southern states as its sole and exclusive domain is nothing short of revelatory. A singular phenomenon, as if poverty signed an exclusivity contract with the South, steering clear of the otherwise pristine streets of urban utopias like California, New York, Washington, and Illinois, etc. In these blessed lands, one might marvel at the fantastical scenes where homeless encampments, lavishly adorned with the latest in syringe décor and the season's most fashionable assortment of feces, simply do not exist. These are but elaborate fables, tales of caution spun from the looms of imagination, presumably to entertain the masses living in suburban bliss. Oh, to live in such blissful ignorance, where poverty is but a specter haunting the distant South, a land apparently forsaken by prosperity and chosen by adversity as its favored theater of operation. How revelatory, indeed.
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I mean... I went in this video with the same mentality but he does mention how the tables are turning. We're the ones growing while the North fades.
I'm not hearing many reasons here beyond rural economy and Jim Crow. As someone who moved from California to the South (Virginia, somewhat known as the rich south) I'm fairly confident that much US growth is going to take place in the Southeast, as taxes and costs, especially housing and labor, tend to be lower. I'm favorably impressed by the work ethic and skills of the locals and note a lot of non-Southerners are relying on dated stereotypes.
The problem is that salaries remain far too low while everything has gone up exponentially in price. A paralegal job in say, California will pay an average of $50,000. That same job in South Carolina will MAYBE pay $40,000, but the rents and home prices are higher than the salaries. I know because I used to live in Charleston ans woild move back if I could find a job that paid me what I'm worth.
@@jennifertarin4707 I've been to Charleston SC briefly and it's a cute tourist town but I didn't see a lot of other business beyond the Navy there and it's cuteness and access to the ocean I suspect is drawing in retirees who are pushing up housing costs. I was lucky, myself and most of my company were transitioned to work from home, so my pay stayed the same. When I left San Francisco during covid the average house in my middle class neighborhood was around $1.7 mil, for small houses that came with a big tax bill. Only rent-control allowed me to afford to live there. I was paying $1350/month rent, my apt was rented out for over $4K when I left. I bought a bigger house in the Shenandoah Valley in one of the best neighborhoods in town for $250K and yes housing prices have gone up quick. I'd price it at $340K now, and likewise local rents have jumped a lot, partly because unemployment here is at a historical low, pushing up local wages especially for folks in the minimum wage range. Living here is saving me a bunch of money, folks are really nice, crime is low, nature is beautiful and plentiful and the cultural scene is impressive for a smaller town, plenty to do. I wish I moved here sooner.
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Why money is an artificial limitation.
Answer, manufacturing hubs are in the south. Plastic plants and carpet mills GALORE. With cheap labor and such, the north buys the goods for cheap prices, or gets them from out of the country.
I HATED moving from N to S. Had to to help family during Covid-19.
While Mississippi has a similar state level GDP to New Zealand, New Zealand has a higher median income and higher median individual wealth than the US medians. Consider that for a moment.
nice music, there was some background noise about something being poorer than other