HuffPo hates the South (with maps)

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http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/4855191?ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000063

Maps show relative poverty rates, minimum wage laws, economic mobility, access to health care, cost of health care, obesity and smoking rates, teen pregnancy, and overall happiness.

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The South doesn't seem to want anyone's help. When you insinuate that things are in bad shape you're being a pretentious liberal. They question your motivations and think you're trying to change their culture or religiosity.

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Yet we keep electing the same right-wing governments we've been electing since Reconstruction ended. We do it to ourselves. Very frustrating.

I doubt that's the cause. My part of the country is an underdeveloped craphole with many of the same problems as the South (except race). We keep electing governments significantly to the left of the Democrats... yet somehow, we're still an underdeveloped craphole.

It's almost as though the politics of an area don't determine its overall well-being.