like you really aren’t allowed to say shit about southerners until you have firsthand seen how people live deep in the appalachian hollers because it is fucking tragic. the poverty and the food desert and the lack of resources in general is so bad. the drugs. yall dont understand
also mississippi and louisiana are in the top five poorest states and also just so happen to have the highest black populations in mainland us. like. i don’t think you guys know what you are talking about. when you talk shit about southerners. can i introduce you to a little something called gerrymandering
I lived in rural Arkansas as a teen.
My closest neighbors did not have running water or electricity in their home. (There was a nearby creek; they got water from that.)
In the entire school – about 500 students, grades K-12, from three nearby towns – I think there were one or two students who paid for lunches. Everyone else got free lunch because the entire region was so far below the poverty line. I don’t think the lunchroom had a cashier. I vaguely heard of students needing to pay for lunch; I assume their families made arrangements.
The schools scheduled extra days off in November, around Thanksgiving – when hunting season started – because a notable number of students would vanish for a few days, because those families needed that turkey or deer meat to survive the winter.
Also. Under-18s didn’t need a license to hunt, or the license was cheaper, I forget. So it was important to the families to have the kill registered to the teenager rather than the adult, because they couldn’t afford the cost of an adult license.
(This is part of why anti-gun legislation has issues in the South – for a lot of families, “take away our guns” means “take away our ability to eat meat through the winter.” Convincing them that the guns under threat are NOT hunting rifles is hard, because the NRA is deeply invested in furthering the notion that all guns are equal – and used for equally valid reasons.)
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