Top 10 most economically depressed cities in the US-Their common denominator?

[Anonymous]

But all those southern states vote Republican for president and most of their representatives in Congress are republican. I am betting their state legislatures are too.

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Anonymous wrote:how about states with the highest poverty rates...

1. Arkansas 18.5%
2. New Mexico 18.0%
3. Mississippi 17.9%
4. District of Columbia 17.3%
5. Louisiana 16.9%
West Virginia 16.9%
7. Texas 15.8%
8. Alabama 15.1%
9. Tennessee 14.3%
10. North Carolina 14.2%

With the exception of DC, aren't they all Republican.

Yup, that's the poster's point. All those super-Republican states always top the lists for highest poverty rate, lowest literacy rate, highest drop-out rates, highest teen pregnancy rates, highest divorce rates, etc.. Just trying to prove the point that the folks in those states have governments (i.e. Republicans) that are not looking out for their best interests. It also says something about those states being the most bible-thumping "family-values" places. Seems a lot of those folks don't practice what they preach!

Which would be interesting, if only it were true. Just checked Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_current_United_States_Governors

Arkansas, New Mexico, West Virginia, Tennessee and North Carolina all have Democrats for governors. DC is obviously Dem as well. So only 4 of the 10 (MS, LA, TX and AL) are Republican.

Democratic states for how long? One term?

[Anonymous]

I thought Wva was a typically run by Dems, no? Sen. Byrd?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I stumbled on this bit of trivia and found it quite interesting...I'm just sayin'....

What do the top ten cities with the highest poverty rate “all” have in common?

Answer: Democrat leadership.

Detroit, MI (1st on the poverty rate list) hasn’t elected a Republican mayor since 1961;
Buffalo, NY (2nd) hasn’t elected one since 1954;
Cincinnati, OH (3rd)… since 1984;
Cleveland, OH, (4th)… since 1989;
Miami, FL (5th) has never had a Republican Mayor;
St. Louis, MO (6th)…. since 1949;
El Paso, TX (7th) Has never had a Republican Mayor;
Milwaukee, WI (8th)… since 1908;
Philadelphia, PA (9th)… since 1952;
Newark, NJ (10th)… since 1907.

This completely ignores the impact of the national economy, federal housing and highway policy, and a whole boatload of things that city mayors can't control, such as the collapse of the domestic steel industry, federal housing policies that encouraged the decline of inner city neighborhoods, money poured into federal highways rather than mass transportation. For more information see a book called American Apartheid by Massey and Denton.

Anybody who is paying attention knows that a city mayor has little power vis a vis the federal government and large multinational corporations. It is irrelevant whether they are Democrats or Republicans.