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[–]InvoluntaryHalibut 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The South is the poorest region of the US, due to the Yankees plundering out wealth and redistributing it to Wal Street billionaires.....the Yanks try to slander our culture and way of life by any means they can.

As a yank I don’t really disagree. I just think that the South is a relatively poor part of a rich country. Its hard to say how it compares to the typical conditions of the Eurasian hunter gatherer but realize that was a selection process that took 50,000 years

I see much of today’s conflicts as a urban / rural dichotomy. The cities are mostly bureaucracies — the number of factories continues to fall. The rural and sub-urban “red” areas are constantly having their wealth redistributed to an urban bureaucracy that does not share their values. The urban bureaucracies have an increasingly subjective definition of “work” which they force actual workers to compensate them for through taxes, regulations, universities, insurance.

Those "different sets of rules" have been unnaturally sustained long after segregation's end,

You and I are probably just going to disagree on this. I feel that racial differences are profound and they are genetic and not due to an unnatural systemic racism. Anyone can get used to grits and collard greens— they’re tasty. But there are a set of behavioral differences between southern blacks and whites which I do not think has been caused by segregation or any other imposed rules.

I can see that you are a very strong “culture” person, i.e. You put great emphasis on the shared rules and and a common world view behind those rules, your rural dixie baptist identity. That is important and it does change a population over time to create better rule followers of a particular regime.

I just think you should allow for the possibility that you are overestimating the ability of a cultural regime to unify a group of diverse people over a relatively short period of time (~400 yrs) who have operated within different environments under different cultural rules for thousands and thousands of years. You are underestimating the importance of genetics on behavior.

I do not enjoy pointing out the data but it is overwhelming. If we are too polite to point out the data, then every time an Ahmad Arbery happens, people will say “there they go picking on black people for walking down the street.”

If whites and blacks and any other groups choose to live together it should be with the informed understanding that given an absolutely level playing field within a common culture, we will not perform the same.

Its not fair. Entire groups are not choosing to be bad in school or good at crime. Its just that differences in our history over 150,000 years or so have made us behave differently under identical conditions.