Why didn't Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana boom along with the Sunbelt?

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Anonymous wrote:During the 50s and 60s, MS, AL, and parts of LA were the center of violence around the civil rights movement. Even if you weren't Black or actively involved in fighting for civil rights, I can't imagine why you'd want to move to a place where there was so much lawlessness and violence. So these areas experienced less growth than others.

MS in particular never invested in modern infrastructure. There are large parts of the state today that don't have access to clean water or really any modern water treatment system. Just a few years ago Jackson's entire water system failed, even worse than Flint. And Jackson is the capital!

It's the murder capital of the U.S., with the highest murder rate.

Murder per capita statewide Alabama is 14.9 per 100,000 people. For Washington, DC it is 27.3 per 100,000 people. For Baltimore it is 51.1 per 100,000 people. What do Baltimore, Washington, DC and Alabama have in common? Because they do have something in common.

Baltimore's per capita murder rate is actually much lower, at 34.8 per 100,000. All cities and states are bound to have something in common with each other, but by misrepresenting statistics, you're not making a very convincing argument.

Google indicates 51.1 has been used.

All these cities and states have large poor black populations. Overton window, of course. But factor out murder rates by race you get a different kind of picture.

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Anonymous wrote:During the 50s and 60s, MS, AL, and parts of LA were the center of violence around the civil rights movement. Even if you weren't Black or actively involved in fighting for civil rights, I can't imagine why you'd want to move to a place where there was so much lawlessness and violence. So these areas experienced less growth than others.

MS in particular never invested in modern infrastructure. There are large parts of the state today that don't have access to clean water or really any modern water treatment system. Just a few years ago Jackson's entire water system failed, even worse than Flint. And Jackson is the capital!

It's the murder capital of the U.S., with the highest murder rate.

Murder per capita statewide Alabama is 14.9 per 100,000 people. For Washington, DC it is 27.3 per 100,000 people. For Baltimore it is 51.1 per 100,000 people. What do Baltimore, Washington, DC and Alabama have in common? Because they do have something in common.

Baltimore's per capita murder rate is actually much lower, at 34.8 per 100,000. All cities and states are bound to have something in common with each other, but by misrepresenting statistics, you're not making a very convincing argument.

Google indicates 51.1 has been used.

All these cities and states have large poor black populations. Overton window, of course. But factor out murder rates by race you get a different kind of picture.

Black populations that were kept in poverty from racist policies and violence by whites in power.

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Anonymous wrote:After WWII, the warm weather states boomed in population. But AL/MS/LA didn't. You had a South Atlantic sunbelt (Carolinas, Georgia, Florida) and the Southwest running from Texas to Southern California. Why the gap in between?

Republicans keeping the masses uneducated

You appear to be the uneducated one. Those states were 90% democratic until the 1980s.

They were the legacy Democrats who opposed the 13th, 14th, 19th Amendments. They were the legacy Democrats that LBJ said after signing the Civil Rights Acts lamented to a friend that they have lost the south for a generation and that they had delivered the south to the Republicans for a very long time. Indeed, he was correct. Those Democrats pre-1965 became Dixiecrats and eventually Republicans. They were your Jesse Helms, Strom Thurmond's, Evan Jenkins, and more.

Interesting fact, Black Americans who were allowed to vote were Republicans because it was the party of Lincoln. Not just the party of Lincoln, but the then Republican party pushed for Emancipation and Black politicians during Reconstruction period. Then the Republican Party gave the world Barry Goldwater who believed in Jim Crow, anti-Civil Rights, and anti-Black any and everything. It is during this time that white racists Democrats became Republicans and Black Republicans became Democrats. And ain't much has changed in the last 60 years.

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Anonymous wrote:During the 50s and 60s, MS, AL, and parts of LA were the center of violence around the civil rights movement. Even if you weren't Black or actively involved in fighting for civil rights, I can't imagine why you'd want to move to a place where there was so much lawlessness and violence. So these areas experienced less growth than others.

MS in particular never invested in modern infrastructure. There are large parts of the state today that don't have access to clean water or really any modern water treatment system. Just a few years ago Jackson's entire water system failed, even worse than Flint. And Jackson is the capital!

It's the murder capital of the U.S., with the highest murder rate.

Murder per capita statewide Alabama is 14.9 per 100,000 people. For Washington, DC it is 27.3 per 100,000 people. For Baltimore it is 51.1 per 100,000 people. What do Baltimore, Washington, DC and Alabama have in common? Because they do have something in common.

Last time I checked, Alabama was a whole, entire state and Baltimore and DC were mere cities. Love how you used statistics of a state versus a city, and still lied about the numbers. Stephen Miller trolling DCUM.

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Anonymous wrote:Because those states are horrible. Have you ever visited one of them? I have *shudders* Never again.

You are a good example of why people in the South distrust and dislike DC.

Are you just opposed to being around poor people or being reminded of the legacy of a slave economy? Can you recognize anything good in the region that gave America some of its finest writers and musicians? Whose black pastors led America's civil rights movement? Can you recognize that black Southerners were never given the compensation promised and that this fact stalled economic growth? That, in the false promises and manipulation by the ruling class of these states, poor white Southerners were given black Southerners as someone to blame for their misfortune?

I'm a white Southern liberal who frequently finds herself in the middle of conversations like this. Until we solve this problem of rural white Americans communicating with urban elites, we'll see increasing polarization and a populism that leads to an authoritarian state. How will that serve those of us who live in the urban mid-Atlantic or Northeast?

I'd counsel DCUM posters to read Barbara Kingsolver's Demon Cooperhead to get a little insight. If it doesn't move you, there's something wrong with you. Find a way to talk to the people of Alabama and Mississippi that doesn't make them hate you. This population has seen rapid change and globalization that has cost them their livelihoods. Understand it, or just sit back and endure the unfolding catastrophe.

Nice speech. Now what do you tell the rural white Americans who hate DC why they should try to understand it?

I explain that they're voting against their own self-interest and rising to MAGA bait and lies. I explain that they may cheer for the dismantling of federal agencies but that only 15% of federal employees are in the DMV, so they're shooting themselves in the foot. I explain that federal investment in technology, education, and science has fueled economic growth these last 50 years. I explain that rule of law is more important in the long run than the policies of any individual administration, and that's being sabotaged by the people they're electing.

I said that I was in the middle of these constant arguments and I am. I should get paid by both sides for the decades of explaining I've done. What DC people fail to understand is that the orthodoxy of their rhetoric is undermining their own cause. All the virtue signaling and ignorance of how non-urban citizens live -- attitudes prevalent in the private schools my children have attended -- have hastened the rise of MAGA.

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Correct: the orthodoxy of rigid rhetoric and purity tests most certainly did hasten the rise of MAGA. Coupled with the inability to examine or understand the plight of real people struggling across the country—not just in red states and rural areas—the rigid rhetoric and pet causes fueled the backlash and over-correction we are experiencing today.

That's your take. Given that MAGA has their own rigid rhetoric and purity tests, I think their rise was hastened by a much simpler explanation: the election of a black president.