Because of Republicans
Ah, but they promised that it’s all the immigrants, and gay people, and woke leftists that are why I’m poor. Why would they lie to me?
Surely the solution to all that is theocratic fascism!
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Indeed! The solution is to vote for Donald Trump! The greatest business man in history who:
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Failed to sell steaks to Americans and bankrupted 2 casinos!
Wait…
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A quick look into 60 years of the southern strategy. This is what happens when you eliminate all avenues of public funding and social safety nets to give the rich a 3.2% tax.
One might argue that the current mess is a legacy effect of the South’s historical dependence on a low-skill, low-cost growth “strategy” — beginning with slavery — that privileged short-term economic gains over patient investment in human capital and long-term development. That’s a big claim about a larger, more complex story.
But…that seems like what the entire section titled “The Origin of the Rural Crisis” is about.
This latter point became increasingly important, since the South, a low-cost manufacturing region in the U.S., is a high-cost manufacturing region when compared to, say, Mexico.
And, because it was relatively high-cost, it lost those manufacturing opportunities to globalization.
