re: Louisiana town named most unequal town in the nation

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Among other things, you're ignoring generations of dependency in these communities that has destroyed their family structure and created a situation where no one has a need for good work and only exceptional people want it. If you grew up white middle class and are average in any way, then you can go ahead and assume that if you had grown up black lower class (or white lower class, for that matter), you would be hanging out on a street corner right now or whatever else the average person from that group is doing. I hold my nose and vote Republican because they are the least likely of the available candidates to continue the present, sick situation that fuels so many bad things, possibly the worst of which is the animosity between Americans that is so prevalent in these threads. I don't know how the sense of community is faring in other parts of the country, but it is dead or dying throughout the South. I believe in capitalism and the free market, too, as the best ways to reduce poverty and reward individuals who work hard, have good ideas, etc, but the free market won't save us as long we only preach while allowing the other side to claim all the empathy. Specifically to the OP, it is plain laughable for a rich cotton farmer from Lake Providence to see the great great grandsons of cotton slaves wasting their lives away and feel zero empathy for them. To not feel any desire to help them. To see how they are today and not make the connection to where they came from.

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