Question:
here are the 10 poorest counties in the USA, can you tell me what they have in common?
2015-05-10 17:40:46 UTC
1. Owsley County, Ky.

2. Jefferson County, Miss.

3. Wolfe County, Ky.

4. Brooks County, Texas

5. McCreary County, Ky.

6. Hudspeth County, Texas

7. Hancock County, Tenn.

8. Jackson County, Ky.

9. Clay County, Ky.

10. Holmes County, Miss.
Fourteen answers:
MrMeeseeks
2015-05-10 17:43:05 UTC
Red states
yamnnjr
2015-05-10 18:01:31 UTC
You named them all on a yahoo answers post.



You know what's funny about that is they are suffering so little from their being "more poor" that they're still voting Republican.



Says something about the economy there. It's like that old principle. If you make 2 dollars verses 20 dollars, but everything you need can be bought with those 2 dollars verses everything in liberal states needing 40 dollars, who's really more poor in that scenario?



The numbers that Democrats love to twist would say that the liberal state is better off. But the reality is, those with 2 dollars are better off because they can do substantially more with their dollar.



Inevitably, we're going to reach a ceiling where government cannot force companies to pay more to their employees, and Democrats want that because it will cause all competitors except a few to crash, leaving but a couple or so that Democrats can control.



And that is actually already happening across most areas of our economy.



In case you haven't noticed, the most monopolistic of our big businesses are almost all turning left wing.
Mr.
2015-05-10 18:06:33 UTC
Red states? And? I'd bet you that most those counties are more socially conservative than economically conservative. Believe it or not, a person can be socially conservative and economically liberal at the same time, two categories which I imagine most poor people fall under, especially the latter.
first
2015-05-10 18:01:33 UTC
They're all in the south, particularly the deep south / south east. It's not rocket science. They are also all predominantly conservative states. The towns in KY used to be mining boom towns.
Strega
2015-05-10 17:49:28 UTC
Going by the couple counties I know about, Owsley specifically cause it was in the news recently! I'm gonna say....majority white, majority republican with republican representatives.



What'd I win?
expertgal
2015-05-10 18:23:23 UTC
Democrat Party leaders?
2015-05-10 19:15:28 UTC
Oprah?
Holy Cow!
2015-05-10 17:46:56 UTC
Southeastern Kentucky is sad.
?
2015-05-10 17:48:52 UTC
Obama shutting down coal industry is what I see.

Guess he wanted to get even for Dim policies in Detroit failing.
?
2015-05-10 18:03:50 UTC
They're all filled with repuke voters.
2015-05-10 17:44:13 UTC
Obama has shut down most of Kentuckys coal mines and put people out of work. Obama hates coal and hates seeing people earn a living
2015-05-10 17:44:40 UTC
They're all slaving away on the GOP plantation.
?
2015-05-10 17:44:03 UTC
My guess is that what they have in common is that nobody burned down a CVS pharmacy in any of them.
2015-05-10 17:42:58 UTC
States that vote Republican


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