Top 100 counties for Kerry

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http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/9/20/145116/057

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It has a link to the most liberal cities of California. Mill Valley is interesting, it's 81.91% Kerry, 17.11% Bush. I think the average house there goes for about $1.5 million. Lots of people there voted for the guy who would raise their taxes.

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I used to live on a reservation, which is also the 8th poorest county in the US. Right across the border in SD was Corson county, also a reservation and the single poorest county in the country. The place was much like a getto, rundown buildings were everywhere, and graffiti was quite common.

And just to get some stats, listen to this. My family lived in a 4 bedroom house. My parents told me it cost $200/month. That's it. I now live in a $425/month one room apartment. Now this was in the last 80s so you have to adjust for inflation a bit, but that gap is quite astounding. Also the median age was around 20 because wedlock rates and births were so high that all the babies drove the median down greatly.

very depressing place to say the least. I was around the area again fairly recently, and some of those parts look like another world almost, especially Cannonball.

Wow very third world

According to Wikipedia

The median income for a household in the CDP is $19,265, and the median income for a family is $18,583. Males have a median income of $21,875 versus $17,250 for females. The per capita income for the CDP is $5,717. 50.9% of the population and 49.7% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total population, 58.3% of those under the age of 18 and 8.6% of those 65 and older are living below the poverty line.

Check out Buffalo county, SD. It's probably worse off than most 3rd world countries.

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I used to live on a reservation, which is also the 8th poorest county in the US. Right across the border in SD was Corson county, also a reservation and the single poorest county in the country. The place was much like a getto, rundown buildings were everywhere, and graffiti was quite common.

And just to get some stats, listen to this. My family lived in a 4 bedroom house. My parents told me it cost $200/month. That's it. I now live in a $425/month one room apartment. Now this was in the last 80s so you have to adjust for inflation a bit, but that gap is quite astounding. Also the median age was around 20 because wedlock rates and births were so high that all the babies drove the median down greatly.

very depressing place to say the least. I was around the area again fairly recently, and some of those parts look like another world almost, especially Cannonball.

Wow very third world

According to Wikipedia

The median income for a household in the CDP is $19,265, and the median income for a family is $18,583. Males have a median income of $21,875 versus $17,250 for females. The per capita income for the CDP is $5,717. 50.9% of the population and 49.7% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total population, 58.3% of those under the age of 18 and 8.6% of those 65 and older are living below the poverty line.

Check out Buffalo county, SD. It's probably worse off than most 3rd world countries.

57%.  Horrible.

It's even worse than it sounds. Actually this website is saying Shannon, SD is the poorest county. Life expectancy of 50 years. That's less than 2/3rds of the national average.

http://www.trailsandgrasslands.org/rez.html


All of the poorest counties are in red states. Blue states seem to be much better at fighting poverty.

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I used to live on a reservation, which is also the 8th poorest county in the US. Right across the border in SD was Corson county, also a reservation and the single poorest county in the country. The place was much like a getto, rundown buildings were everywhere, and graffiti was quite common.

And just to get some stats, listen to this. My family lived in a 4 bedroom house. My parents told me it cost $200/month. That's it. I now live in a $425/month one room apartment. Now this was in the last 80s so you have to adjust for inflation a bit, but that gap is quite astounding. Also the median age was around 20 because wedlock rates and births were so high that all the babies drove the median down greatly.

very depressing place to say the least. I was around the area again fairly recently, and some of those parts look like another world almost, especially Cannonball.

Wow very third world

According to Wikipedia

The median income for a household in the CDP is $19,265, and the median income for a family is $18,583. Males have a median income of $21,875 versus $17,250 for females. The per capita income for the CDP is $5,717. 50.9% of the population and 49.7% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total population, 58.3% of those under the age of 18 and 8.6% of those 65 and older are living below the poverty line.

Check out Buffalo county, SD. It's probably worse off than most 3rd world countries.

57%.  Horrible.

It's even worse than it sounds. Actually this website is saying Shannon, SD is the poorest county. Life expectancy of 50 years. That's less than 2/3rds of the national average.

http://www.trailsandgrasslands.org/rez.html


All of the poorest counties are in red states. Blue states seem to be much better at fighting poverty.

Not necessarily.

The blue states are closer to the water.  Native American tribes along the water have traditionally been much more wealthy, because they can invest in casinos and the like.  The Native Americans of South Dakota have no resources.

Tribes in "blue states" (boy, is that a dumb moniker) aren't necessairly better off.  Poverty rates may be lower, but they still barely scrape by:  the poverty rate for Chehalis Village, Washington, may only be 21%, but the per capita income is a staggeringly low $7,538.

That tribe of 346 that is only a tiny part of a county is much wealthier than the tribe I was talking about that has 30,000 people, and much of Shannon, SD. I doubt the life expectancy is anywhere near 50 years for the Washington tribe.

The fact is that when you look at the county level, all of the poorest counties are in red states. Not one of the top 100 were in a state that Kerry got a majority in. 1 was in WI, the other 99 in Bush states.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poorest_places_in_the_United_States

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First, I want to thank JFern for the list.

Second, I find it interesting how everyone had tiptoed around the fact that the population mix in the overwhelming majority of the counties is 'third world.'

Third, I find it even more interesting that NO ONE has noted how that list of 'counties' differs in population growth rate from the nation. Of the 100 'counties,' 18 grew at a rate as fast or faster than the nation (2000 -2003) while 32 grew at a rate slower than the nation, and half (50) had a net decline in population!

What this means is that with ensuring redistrictings, if this trend continues, Democrats will lose seats in State legislatures and the House of Representatives.

Conservative adults have more children than liberal adults. People tend to be more liberal than their parents. It all about cancels out.

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Here are some for me

1,3,5,6,8,9,13,18,20,21,25,26,28,33,40,43,46,48,51,52,53,54,63,64,67,73
quickly scanning the rest
95,99, probably some others