Why is it that Southern Virginia is poor and uneducated?
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I don't know that I agree with you that they are poor and uneducated. You have a particular city in mind?
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South American countries are not poor at all.  Reality is that some of this countries are very very rich but their societies are controlled by groups of families that have been owners of huge mines and plantations since long before the USA were founded. By 1500's families from Spain and later from Portugal founded colonies were native Indians and Africans became in different ways slaves and domestic servants. This division in social classes was a copy of the 'feudal system' of Europe, were few families were owners of all lands and production systems and there was a lord in a castle. That was how people were living by the 1506 when ciities and towns were founded.  The USA was born 200 years later, under democratic ideas imported from the French revolution (they created the idea that we are all equal)! This idea still have to become a reality in a continent were education, health and freedom are yet privileges rather than rights. I am sending you a link to a slide show of Buenos Aires, capital of Argentina. So you can tell by yourself if you see a poor country.
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As for North and South Dakota/Carolina, the answer has been given. The story with VA and WV is related to the issue of slavery and the period leading up to the American Civil War.\n\n(In short: What used to be "eastern Virginia" was mostly inhabited by slave-owning plantation holders. The part that is now West Virginia was inhabited by small farmers etc. The situation threatened to split the state apart, so the people voted to split it up in two states: WV for the Union, VA for the Confederacy.)
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Former slaves, who were only thought as property and less than human, now were counted as part of the population. And even though many went North after the end of the Civil War, most stayed in the place where they knew. So if there was a plantation, which had over a hundred slaves that were not counted as part of the population before, now were considered part of it. And as you know the House of Representatives gives as many seats out for each state depending on how many people live in the state and not on how big the state is. And more representatives meant more political power in Washington, DC. Don't forget also, that the Southern states after the Civil War were not governed by Southerners, Northerners were put in charge and Reconstruction took place (which was both positive and negitive).
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That was an interesting Freudian slip wasn't it. The majority of the poor in that area (New Orleans) just happened to be black.
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Well first I want to say this is because of ill-informed white liberals and unsophisticated Democrats as to why we have this proble in America...\nI'll proceed...\nLet me put it to you like this: there are lazy black people and there are hard working black people. The only problem is, there is a good majority of them that are lazy. This is unfortunate because like with anything, the ones that are lazy give the ones who are hard working a bad name. Now, I'm not a conservative but I'm not a liberal. I'm not a racist but I definately know what you're talking about. As a matter of fact I'm not even white, but that doesn't matter. Anyways, the problem isn't so much that they're lazy as it is the problem that lies behind the fact that the majority of them who are lazy don't want to take on the responsibilities of bettering themselves and their community and accepting their faults as to why they are poor, why they don't have black-owned businesses even in the cities that they live in, why so many of them are incarcerated, why they can't stop depending on the government to give them handouts. I could go on and on. The truth of the matter is (and this is not just coming from me but other African-Americans as well), the majority of black folk in America don't want to take on responsibility to make change. They'd rather complain and blame everything on the white man and everyone else who isn't black. I mean, when Martin Luther King rallied a Civil Rights movement, he intended that to better the lives of black folk and give way to equal opportunities for them. As a matter of fact, the very people who fought for those civil rights back in the sixties sacrificed their lives just so black folk could prosper in America. But its a shame to see a good number of black folk disgrace that legacy by allowing drugs, crime and a lack of work ethics to tarnish it. I always hear this left-wing rehtoric that blacks have it hard in this country because they're black. It's not because they're black, it's because they don't want succeed the right way. I'm sure a number of you want to call me a racist, a this or that. You know what, it doesn't really matter because I know for a fact that when the Chinese, Vietnamese, East Indian (who some that are darker than some of the black folk here), and other ethnic groups who immigrated here, worked their asses off and did what they had to do with the very little rights they had and actaully pulled through and ended up owning businesses, having the highest level of education and made names for themselves. Now why can't black people here do the same? Well, here are number of reasons why:\n\nFor one, they highly depend on the Liberals and Democrats to give them this warm feeling that everything is in good hands as long as it is trusted in the hands of Liberals and Democrats, when the truth of the matter lies behind the fact that Democrats don't encourage them to pull their weight, stop using race as an excuse for success, leave family guidance and morale to the side (after all, Bill Clinton was po' black folk's daddy), and brainwash them into thinking that communism is going to solve all the problems when in fact it'll only make things worse for blacks (after all, with communism, who needs to work hard?).\nThe second and foremost reason is because white liberals use their aethist, communist, anything goes, anarchist delusional theory driven ideas to confuse African Americans to believing that as long as they're poor and black, they can be used as puppets for deranged liberal marketing.\n\nSo, if African Americans actually think that the Democrats or the radical liberals are going to make things better for them, then they better start rethinking why they go to church, why they're in America and not in Africa and why they don't need schools at all. Because as far as I'm concerned, it's not the A
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:D A s s and B u t t. They are poor.
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Take a close look at the coal mines of West Virginia! Poor people went to work in the mines and formed whole mining towns. As the mines got bigger the towns literally sank, slid off of mountains, etc.
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C.  A very small percentage of Southerners owned slaves (2-3%).  Most men who  fought for the South left behind women and children to tend to crops and livestock alone.
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The word poor here means a humble need for the Holy Spirit. It means that we are not self-sufficient spiritually and that we need it's life, power and it's sustaining grace constantly in this world we live. The poor in spirit inherits the kingdom of God which is righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Ghost.
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This is an excellent question that would take me a few paragraphs to answer but it is late so I will try to summarize.\n\nIn brief, it has to do with being uneducated and easily manipulated by propaganda that targets their downcomings and prejudices.\n\nBelieve it or not, Rove has been quoted as using prejudices to manipulate votes of the poor. \n\nYou see, it is like this: if you can keep the poor ppl angry for being poor then they want to blame someone... then you convince them that the liberal socialist democrats just want to use all their hard earned tax dollars to pay for the 10 kid black family on welfare... things like that.\n\nReality is that more white poor on on welfare... it is because of the midwestern states.\n\nAnyways that is only one example but the bottom line is that their prejudices have been manipulated. Btw, I know this from first hand experience having been raised in a bigoted, Southern Repoublican family.\n\nI wish we could sit everybody down that makes under $250k per year and make them watch congressional debates of that past 15 years... they would see that it is the democratic party up there in Washington fighting for them, not the Republican party.
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i went to school in the north and the south but i can tell you this most ppl do not really know what they were fighting over they fought for pride and sence of duty. slavery was an issue and in todays opinion the only one that matters or that was worth all the loss of life. the average person did not own slaves. it was about polics and trade. i have heard ppl from the south tout that they lost because they were out numberd and more yankees died the rebs. this is true however the south in most battles stood their ground as the north charged the battle field leaving them vulnerable during the attack
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Ok, Savannah is in GA, not SC.  The "low country" generally refers to the Charleston, Hilton Head area.\n\nNow if you are looking only at environmental type similarities, Savannah would be very similar, however, in SC when we refer to the "low country" we do not include Savannah.\n\nIf clarify why or what you are asking, I may be able to help a little more.
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It is just a fun little hick saying and I would love to find out how it originated but I am sure it came from uneducated people from poor areas.
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Because the wealthy lack the knowledge, or willingness to help, or else, the poor have chosen poverty as being less cold than the world.
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Maryland is a southern state; it lies below the Mason Dixson line. That's the fact.
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I am someone who grew up in NYC and moved to the South..Over Younder in my opinion is not anywhere its what they say when they arent sure either