Re: poorest states

[robert <http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert>]

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 > From: Noelle <noelle>
 > Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2025 06:56:20 -0700 (PDT)
 >
 > from electoral-vote.com
 > 
 > B.C. in Walpole, ME, writes: D.H. in Portland asked about addressing 
 > poverty in the five poorest states (Mississippi, West Virginia, 
 > Louisiana, Arkansas, and Kentucky). Note that 3 of 5 are former 
 > Confederate states, and 4 of 5 are former slave states. If we expand 
 > the list, using the 10 states/territories with the highest poverty 
 > rate, we have, in order: Puerto Rico, Louisiana, Mississippi, New 
 > Mexico, West Virginia, Kentucky, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Alabama. 
 > Four are former slaves states with large Black populations. Two have 
 > large Native American populations. One is a territory (acquired an 
 > imperial war) with a Latino population. This is not accidental or 
 > coincidental. It's intentional. Structural racism plays a major role 
 > here. Without addressing the problem of racism, it's impossible to 
 > address the problem of poverty in those areas.
 > 
 > Of the remaining three, two are part of Appalachia, an area of white 
 > poverty which the Johnson administration tried to ameliorate in the 
 > 1960s, and the tenth is New York. Poverty has many causal factors, 
 > but racism is a huge, long-term vector.
 > 
 > The article is accompanied by a map; if you look at the dark areas, 
 > you can easily identify the area dominated by the cotton plantations 
 > of the pre-Civil war South, the Indian reservations of the West, 
 > heavily Latino areas, and the worst of Appalachia.
 > 
 > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territories_by_poverty_rate