| Mel |
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| 09/19/12 08:36 PM |
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Devil made me do this
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Apparently you CAN fool all the people all the time! Or, at least, all the people in a given area.
Interesting to say the least.
TEN POOREST CITIES
City, State, % of People Below the Poverty Level
1. Detroit , MI
32.5%
2. Buffalo , NY
29.9%
3. Cincinnati , OH
27.8%
4. Cleveland , OH
27.0%
5. Miami , FL
26.9%
5. St. Louis , MO
26.8%
7. El Paso , TX
26.4%
8. Milwaukee , WI
26.2%
9. Philadelphia , PA
25.1%
10. Newark , NJ
24.2%
What do the top ten cities(over 250,000 population)
with the highest poverty rate all have in common?
Detroit, MI (1st) hasn't elected a Republican mayor since 1961.
Buffalo , NY (2nd) hasn't elected a Republican mayor since 1954.
Cincinnati , OH (3rd) hasn't elected a Republican mayor since 1984.
Cleveland , OH (4th) hasn't elected a Republican mayor since 1989.
Miami , FL (5th) has never had a Republican mayor.
St. Louis , MO (6th) hasn't elected a Republican mayor since 1949.
El Paso , TX (7th) has never had a Republican mayor.
Milwaukee , WI (8th) hasn't elected a Republican mayor since 1908.
Philadelphia , PA (9th) hasn't elected a Republican mayor since 1952.
Newark , NJ (10th) hasn't elected a Republican mayor since 1907.
Einstein once said, 'The definition of insanity is doing the same thing
over and over again and expecting different results.'
It is the poor who habitually elect Democrats yet they are still POOR!
"You cannot help the poor
by destroying the rich.
You cannot strengthen the weak
by weakening the strong.
You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.
You cannot lift the wage earner up
by pulling the wage payer down.
You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred.
You cannot build character and courage
by taking away people's initiative and independence.
You cannot help people
permanently by doing for them,
what they could and
should do for themselves."
| Ozark |
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| 09/20/12 12:58 AM |
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Re: Devil made me do this
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Mel, the Devil made me take it further. At the risk of being called a racist still again by P. Diddy - your stats made me think about cause and effect. WHY do people in those cities have so much poverty, and WHY do they keep electing Democrats? I have a theory.
The Internet makes it real easy to look up the demographics of all cities, and here's what I found about the list of cities you cite:
Percentage of non-white (minority) population including "Hispanics" according to the 2010 Census
Detroit, 87.6%
Buffalo, 56.5%
Cincinnati, 51.9%
Cleveland, 66.6%
Miami, 88.1%
St. Louis, 57.8%
El Paso, 85.0%
Milwaukee, 63.0%
Philadelphia, 63.1%
Newark, 73.7%
NINE of those ten cities (except for El Paso) had majority-white populations at the close of World War II. The demographics have changed, and continue to change, enormously, with the fastest growing group by far being Hispanics.
Earlier waves of immigrants to this country (Irish, Italian, Polish, Asian, etc.) lived in big-city poverty-stricken Democrat-bossed ghettos at first and then assimilated within a couple of generations. Maybe it'll be the same with Hispanics - we'll see, and maybe as they become more prosperous they'll quit voting overwhelmingly for Dems. I'm not so optimistic about the blacks ever getting their ducks in a row.
| Paul Dallas |
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| 09/20/12 01:10 PM |
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White-flight from most of our major metropolitan areas since WWII shouldn't be news to anyone. And that the population who has replaced them has mainly voted democrat, I don't see that as the cause of anything. You could also overlay any number of other socio-economic stats such as income, education level, crime, etc.
Mayors can't do much with their budget if the tax-base disappears -- doesn't matter if they are the staunchest conservative or biggest bleeding-heart liberal. Sure -- there has been plenty of goofball democrat mayors that made some poor decisions, but in the grand scheme of things --- these inner cities are not poor because of who they elected as mayor. Thats ridiculous.
| halfasmuch |
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| 09/20/12 03:35 PM |
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you are welcome to all that concrete and 47 percenters!
| Hellbender |
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| 09/20/12 04:09 PM |
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Re: Devil made me do this
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Quote:
I'm not so optimistic about the blacks ever getting their ducks in a row.
If you look at Africa it doesn't appear to be in their DNA.
