HuffPo hates the South (with maps)

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Happiness is all that matters. The South is unhappy because Obama is in the White House and the ACA is applying pressure to their otherwise cheap insurance industries (except Texas, which is a bit pricey).

HuffPo can't resist the opportunity to besmirch the anti-liberal electorate.

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So pointing out basic realities that should be obvious to anyone who isn't a deluded hack is now considered a sign of "white liberal elitism"? TNF, I like you, but you're really making yourself an idiot here.

It's one thing to ignore the undertones of racism and political snark. It's another thing to deny they exist, and then refer to people as idiots, if they rebuff HuffPo's gratuitous hit piece.

When someone slams the South for high poverty rates and teen pregnancy, they are slamming the south for having higher African American and Hispanic populations. It's racist, but HuffPo can't help themselves.

Then HuffPo mocks the South for tobacco usage......in former tobacco colonies, where the industrial revolution never really took hold. Then they chide the South for refusing to accept Medicaid expansion, without explaining that Medicaid expansion requires the states to put up funds they they may not have.

But the best part is that they show a happiness map where Texas, Florida, and Georgia (3 most populace states in the South) are considerably happier than New York, Pennsylvania, and Ohio.

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White southerners do badly. In many years they scored worse in intelligence tests than Northern blacks.

Nothing to do with the HuffPo article. They were interested in chastising the South for teen pregnancy and poverty, which are the consequences of Hispanic immigration (Texas) and the lingering consequences of African-Americans living in areas without industrialization until WWII. Basically, blaming the South for the failure of the federal government to economically rehabilitate African Americans in the plantation belt or create a humane agricultural visa system so Hispanics migrants are not trapped in the US, where the cost of living is oppressive.

If you look at the US ancestry map, you'll see how racist the article really is. If you want to understand why the South genuinely loathes DC, it's because this is where the negative consequences of socio-economic policy manifest themselves most acutely. Border insecurity and ineffective agricultural visa systems ruin Texas. The welfare state continues to exacerbate problems in the plantation belt.

It's funny you should bring up nutrition because it is the crux of the problem. The South needs a proper balanced diet. DC liberals are only interested in serving up more pork lard. Predictably, people get worse.