Highest poverty rate by state - what do they have in common?

[PrimeIsGettingComfortable]

 

[okclem]

SEC! SEC! SEC! SEC!

 

[okclem]

They won't touch this one.

 

[PrimeIsGettingComfortable]

They won't touch this one.

Yup. Hard to argue that the most conservative states also are the poorest, least educated, and most violent.

There is a reason why they hate data.

 

[AugTig]

They won't touch this one.

Really? I will. Let’s start with LBJ, Jesse Jackson, and Sharpton.

 

[okclem]

Really? I will. Let’s start with LBJ, Jesse Jackson, and Sharpton.

So it's your contention that the 10 poorest states in the former Confederacy are that way because of Lyndon Johnson, Jesse Jackson, and Al Sharpton, rather than their decades long republican majority & super majority legislatures?