re: Why is the South so unhealthy in modern times?

In most cases it isn’t the scotch Irish descendants driving those statistics.

But to answer your question the welfare state did it, both to the black community and the poor white trash. These folks used to work hard to get by, now they do minimum work and collect from Govt.

poor people eat too much fast food

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we like fried food, alcohol, and cigarettes

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This and it’s more than just fried food it’s our eating habits as a whole.

We love seasonings, diet is meat heavy, we eat large portions. The amount of food restaurants give you here compared to other areas of the nation is insane.

Go to a restaurant out of the southeast it seems hard to find a steak winner with a larger than 12 oz steak.

Where I live 16oz is the small option. Most take up the entire plate and you get a baked potato smothered not in sour cream and chives but rather cheese, ranch, and bacon bits

Since moving to Idaho, I think I’ve seen only a handful of American born black people. Most black folks I’ve seen here are refugees.

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Meh, saying “Fat, lazy, and stupid” isn’t really an answer. I’m more interested in why they became fat, lazy, and stupid, because the evidence shows this is a relatively new development.

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Economics
Education
More faith in God than science
Food deserts


Interesting how often climate has been brought up....that also has to play a pretty big role. Since becoming acclimated to A/C, it's unbearable to even do something as leisurely as golf on a hot summer afternoon.

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To much of the country, eating "healthy" also includes organic fruits and vegetables, free range meat, etc. That stuff is not only incredibly expensive but hard to find in rural areas because there just isn't demand for those products.

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Too bad only organic and free range stuff is healthy. That normal stuff is all sugar.

I still find the South to be based off tough, get it done yourself kind of people. Yea, we like to eat, we like to cook for our friends and family, we like to drink and party. I don't consider Southerners as couch potatoes.

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Food deserts

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Our local race pimps scream about this pretty regularly. What's the solution though? Those areas once had a variety of grocery stores.

The fact that many closed has more to do with them losing money than caring about their customer's skin color.

Fry In America (which is an excellent docuseries, when you can find it) touched on this when he visited North Dakota. Not the south, but his argument remains.

Diets were intended to be calorie rich because of the physically taxing nature of the work that was required. You can't plow fields and clear brush on a diet of kale and yogurt. Hearty, heavy meals were staples because you needed the energy to do the work.

With mechanization, efficiency, and air conditioning, people didn't need to work as hard as they once did. But their diets maintained such cultural significance that they didn't change. As a result, many of our brethren ballooned.

Add that to our bullcrap culture of fat acceptance and other progressive garbage, and society as a whole is going to diverge into the healthy and fit vs the fat and sick. The latter are getting ravaged currently.