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DonCoquixote

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14. It's not a mystery,sadly

Reply to RockaFowler (Original post)

Tue Jan 17, 2012, 09:35 PM

Jan 2012

But I bet all those areas have a lot of good old fashioned Calvinist churches in them. Their version of Jesus tends to favor the poor getting screwed.

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The poorest counties in America [View all] RockaFowler Jan 2012 OP

And are they all red? Quantess Jan 2012 #1

Yes. It appears that they are all in red states. n/t Cali_Democrat Jan 2012 #3

I noticed that, too RockaFowler Jan 2012 #4

No they aren't. Obama carried 13 of the 15, most of them with over 60% of the vote. bornskeptic Jan 2012 #7

The top three are all entirely within Indian reservations KamaAina Jan 2012 #2

I find that really sad RockaFowler Jan 2012 #5

60 Minutes did a piece about poverty in South Dakota. lpbk2713 Jan 2012 #6

1400 people in No. 4: Issaquena County, Miss. snooper2 Jan 2012 #8

many of them are small counties hfojvt Jan 2012 #15

A big percentage of those are reservations in red states. MedicalAdmin Jan 2012 #9

as you said, they are Indian Reservations onethatcares Jan 2012 #11

Mostly because they would all probably still vote for a dead iguanna if it had an (R) next to it. HopeHoops Jan 2012 #10

Refer to post 7 tkmorris Jan 2012 #12

A whole lot of people who vote against their own self interest. It's a mystery. Vinca Jan 2012 #13

It's not a mystery,sadly DonCoquixote Jan 2012 #14