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kleinbl00  ·  1481 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Maybe We Should Have Let the South Secede

    I live in a major city in Georgia (not Atlanta). The nearest Wal-Mart is a 12 mile drive, and I have one Food Lion between me and it.

I have experienced the exact same thing in Los Angeles and Phoenix. None of which shows up on this magical map. The NYT has data for "more travel" and "less travel" but when you dig into the numbers, "less travel" for Seattle" is from "miles" to "feet" whereas in Daytona Beach "less travel" is a 50% reduction.

The South loves to pretend that The South is special but The South is just more pugnacious than everyone else because they lost.





uhsguy  ·  1480 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yeah but that’s only possible in Seattle because amazon groceries, work from home and a whole host of other advantages. The people in the red areas might not be doing the best social distancing but they also have to go to work cause they are living in poverty having already spent next weeks pay check.

kleinbl00  ·  1480 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I said Los Angeles and Phoenix.

My beef with the prior post is the argument that only the South understands true suffering (wraps self in confederate flag) and fuck him, fuck you and fuck anyone else that thinks that poverty in fucking Tennessee is somehow more poor than poverty in fucking east LA.