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>Southern US's attitude to the federal government.

People associate the US South with being poor. And it's true in that they get more federal dollars then pay, mostly from welfare. However the poverty rate in California beats out out every other state in the country.

If California keeps on its trend how long until jokes once about Mississippi or Alabama will instead have California as the punch line?

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The Californian poverty rate only beats out the south because Californian standards are way higher. Being poor in Mississippi is way worse than being in poverty in California, we might as well be talking about different countries at that point. This is just another dumb meme (that poor in California = poor in Mississippi, like poor in Switzerland = poor in Cambodia...uhm, no).

I encourage everyone to experience the Mississippi boonies filled with single wides and trash barrels in the back at least once in their lives. Then go check out poor places in California, just see what is really like for yourself.

Maybe. Though of course Cali isn't the one voting to gut all those programs...

The cause of poverty in cali is different though. It’s mostly not lack of jobs. It’s unaffordable housing.

In much of the south it’s lack of good jobs.

The housing problem is easier to fix… not that cali is fixing it.

Mississippification is the term for what's been going on since Prop 13

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