The Great Debate - Free College For All

[MSK9]

You responded to me, so I believe you're the one who wants to spar. Mississippi has a lot of rural areas. And? You entirely missed the point of my post. It wasn't about whether Mississippi is rural or agrarian. It was about how being rural and agrarian is not an excuse for the poverty in the Deep South because states in other regions of the country that are more rural and more agrarian aren't nearly as poor. There are other reasons for why there are so many failures in the Deep South, but the social science lesson will throw the thread off topic more than it already is.

If anyone cares to know, however, I will gladly type up a lengthy post. You also missed the point of my original post. I don't know how you could read my post and not see the post I quoted. If Democrats wanted to keep people poor, then they are doing a bad job at it because Republicans in the Deep South have them beat. It's not that being a red state correlates with poverty; it's that being in a Democratic-controlled state does not correlate with poverty. LifeLongLearning made an idiotic, highly-political, off-topic statement. Like usual, the conservatives around here are being hypocrites by not addressing the person who started the exchange.

You cast aspersions on red-state governments in deep south states to.. make the point that Democratic governmental control doesn't necessarily have a poverty correlation? 

You then went on to attack me for being biased because I didn't agree with your aspersion. An ineffective, but interesting way to communicate. I'll give you that.

I'd be glad to have intelligent discourse on "social science" with you or anyone else who'd like to elucidate me on Mississippi's developmental concerns.

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It's hard to believe that you thought you could follow the conversation without reading what LifeLongLearning wrote. If it's true that you didn't read his post, which was quoted in my post, then why did you believe that you could construct an appropriate response?

I was clarifying what appeared to be a misconception on your part regarding the state in which I live and work as a public servant. Whether or not you believe I did or did not read someone else's post is irrelevant to me. I then responded further subsequent to your inaccurate assertion of bias on my part.