LogFAQs > #892181637

Balrog0 posted...

Right. The thing is, as bad as the struggle is in places like SF or LA, the density of and access to institutions in these places acts as a protective factor that shields people from some of the worst aspects of poverty.

Though I did purposefully leave housing out of my comments because it is an area where liberal places are largely worse than the south (though even here I would argue this ignores other factors, such as the generally higher transit costs in sprawling southern areas)

as I said - different locations, different struggles

Of course in another sense, states aren't a super meaningful category per se, much less regions, since city and subcity (like household) level factors are dominant in lots of these areas.

that's fair I suppose, but this was, at the start, a discussion about "the south", or "southerners"

I think it's an interesting discussion, but kind of a cop out as a defense of the south.

and therein lies the misunderstanding - it's not really a defense of the south, and neither was the italicized bit in the OP. it's more about calling out the hypocrisy of the regions that tend to look down on the south
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