Of the areas I've witnessed with my own eyes, rural Arkansas was very bad.
But the worst areas were probably in Texas - rural West Texas and the Rio Grande Valley areas.
I saw a few houses made of tin and cardboard in the border areas.
Of the areas I've witnessed with my own eyes, rural Arkansas was very bad.
But the worst areas were probably in Texas - rural West Texas and the Rio Grande Valley areas.
I saw a few houses made of tin and cardboard in the border areas.
Louisiana, Mississippi rural areas are right up there.
This isn't hard to figure out. Just find the poorest areas.
Central Florida.
When across-the-USA runner, Pete Kostelnick, ran from Alaska to Key West, his route carried him almost entirely through red states (excluding Canada) and through central FL. Central FL was the only section of his run where he felt he was in danger. Numerous homeowners pointed shotguns out windows and tracked him as he ran by on a public street. No place else on 5000 mile run did that happen.
Bush Alaska easily. There are places where pooping in 5 gallon buckets is common.
Skid Row. This is the best example because the people there are corralled and controlled just like Africa has been sectioned off
live in Alaska wrote:
Bush Alaska easily. There are places where pooping in 5 gallon buckets is common.
Really? What towns in particular?
The colonias along the Rio Grande in Texas are pretty third world, but have improved some thanks to oil and gas jobs from the fracing boom.
There are pockets in Appalachia that are pretty shocking. I used to work in WV every now and then and take back roads through the hills to kill time. You would see houses tucked in the woods with kids running around barefoot and just wearing dirty overalls.
But I think the worst I have seen are around Indian reservations in NM and AZ.
ultramarine wrote:
Of the areas I've witnessed with my own eyes, rural Arkansas was very bad.
But the worst areas were probably in Texas - rural West Texas and the Rio Grande Valley areas.
I saw a few houses made of tin and cardboard in the border areas.
I've road-around most of the US (retired) and all the places mentioned on this thread except Alaska. For me hands down it was northwestern New Mexico. The poverty, desolation, hopelessness, lack of opportunity; you could just feel it in your bones. Brutal.
Basically anywhere in the US where there is desert you will find third world conditions. Many Indian Reservations are pretty bleak. Northern New Mexico had a terrorist training camp. Detroit / Flint are about as close as a major city in the US can get.
The rural South has many significant pockets of abject poverty. People living in deplorable, desperate conditions because they built outside town limits so building codes and health departments don't reach them. Makes northeastern housing projects look refined and hygenic.
This is Jim Kiler wrote:
Louisiana, Mississippi rural areas are right up there.
This isn't hard to figure out. Just find the poorest areas.
https://www.census.gov/library/visualizations/2018/comm/acs-5yr-poverty-all-counties/_jcr_content/map.detailitem.950.high.jpg/1543960909684.jpg
Almost similar to the map of Trump voters
https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/graphics/2020/11/10/election-maps-2020-america-county-results-more-voters/6226197002/About half of the Indian reservations I've been to actually look like the kind of poverty you can see in parts of Mexico and Central America. The Indian reservations that don't all have casinos or ski resorts.
None of the other places mentioned in this thread approach third world poverty. There is plenty of what we consider poverty in the US, but it's still significantly above third world, with the exception of Indian reservations.
Reservations for sure.
They're like ancient lost populations.
Most places are dangerous. I would only wish to see like 25 areas. Anything else is guaranteed abjection.
ultramarine wrote:
Of the areas I've witnessed with my own eyes, rural Arkansas was very bad.
But the worst areas were probably in Texas - rural West Texas and the Rio Grande Valley areas.
I saw a few houses made of tin and cardboard in the border areas.
Inner city America far worse the Rio Grande Valley.
Every ghetto from East to West and North to South......
Its like being on another planet...or maybe hell.
There is a lot of human poop on the streets of San Fran, so I think that is your answer.
The above is correct. Those in abject poverty vote R for some bizarro reason. They all think they'd have millions, if not for that one thing in their way, which is Hillary something-or-other currently (or AOC now for all I know).
The most 3rd World conditions in the lower 48 are on reservations, Pine Ridge is pretty much it. If you want non-reservation US, bush Alaska, Louisiana, Mississippi, somewhat Arkansas, Virginia because, and a bit of Florida are the correct answers. They're essentially homeless, living in dilapidated whatever structures, including large vehicles, fortified with cardboard, tarps, plywood, and real estate signs.
It's funny to me how much the homeless situation in California is held up as failure, when there are far more living just as poorly, in large areas of a half-dozen or so US states.
Yo mommas house bc sketchy men be shooting kids in there
Bra-ket wrote:
Yo mommas house bc sketchy men be shooting kids in there
I am getting old, are you saying men are shooting kids in his momma’s “house”.
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