10-27-2022, 05:45 PM
(10-27-2022, 10:09 AM)JasonBlack Wrote:(10-25-2022, 04:01 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: The South is perhaps (and very likely) the worst place by any measure in the developed world. It has the worst stats on all measures of any region in the USA, and the USA itself has the worst stats on all measures of any developed country. Many places in the South are as bad as the worst third world countries. No, I am not from the South, and I would not even visit there. I'd be taking my life in my hands. No thanks Dixie.
Every measure except inbound moves apparently. There are WAY more transplants from up north than the reverse. Turns out people like good manners, delicious food and beautiful scenery more than identity politics and the puzzling combination of moral crusades and rampant degeneracy. I'll give Cali some credit though, some of your scenery is breathtaking too once you get out of the urban centers. In my experience, rural Californians are several cuts above the rest, and they're more than welcome in my state as long as they leave the baggage of broken city planning and identitarian madness behind where it belongs. Urban elite Californians though? ....eww, I hope they stay where they are.
Ordinarily, I would avoid such conversations, as taking pride in something you have no control over seems useless to me, but in this case, I make a deliberate decision to move after studying the cultures and laws of various states, and I think I made the right decision.
Lower cost of living and less-severe winters. If one does not have to make a living, then it does not matter that the best job is in a truck stop. Housing is cheap, and so are food prices. Taxes are heavily on retail sales, so if you are buying stuff from the rent-to-own rip-off emporium because you are short of money because you have a job at the truck stop, then state sales taxes as high as 9% in Tennessee burn you badly on the schlock that you buy as furniture or shoddy electronics. Not having to shovel snow is an attraction of the South.
The South has the best regional cuisine in America -- that of New Orleans. Such reflects largely the French and Spanish heritage of old New Orleans. This said, the Deep South and Mountain South attracted few voluntary immigrants. (Texas is suspect as a Southern state as it straddles regions of America -- Mexican Border, Deep South, and Midwest). The industrial jobs were Up North in part because the South was slow to accept industrialization because the white racist agrarian Establishment opposed commerce and industry which might have put pressure on wages of farm laborers. Note well: opposition to commerce and industry is not reliably Left. The Junker class of those parts of Germany east of the Oder-Neisse border before 1945 was also hostile to industrialization and to (largely Jewish) commerce.
... Texas is now getting plenty of liberal-leaning Californians, which reflects Texas drifting D in Presidential elections. Statewide elections are getting closer. Add to this that Texas minorities are not hostile to formal education, and formal education is to the extent of its strength hostile to the superstitious, authoritarian, economically-elitist Hard Right.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.