i sure do & appreciate your comment.
& if you want to reverse that, the reason the South often appears to be a dump? the total opposite. we get everybody first, up thru Texas.
2/5 of the county i live in is african american, some of them as 'backward' as the gullahs, who ain't moved in 3 centuries, a self-selected group very entrenched in their ways that never migrated to the next county, much less up north. (you can't even understand most of them, goes way beyond "ebonics" -which mostly signals urban)
this is why Southerners consider social programs a blight, it seems to have left them more, not less, entrenched in poverty (true for southern poor whites also).
btw: when yankees talk about immigration, they mean muslims. when southerners talk about immigration, they mean Mexicans, Guatemala, Honduras, etc. you see how quickly communication can break down, when ppl talkin abt 2 diff things.
once got in big argument with a Canadian who was calling me racist for not wanting immigrants taking my wife's job (which did happen). i asked him about Canada & he didn't seem to know the immigration laws. i told him they must not be used too much, because everybody in USA sure knows the immigration laws.
when i found out how strict Canada is on immigration, got furious.
the gall of Canadians calling USA racist when they won't even let ppl in without 'proven skills'
jfc, how can they virtue signal like that, with no black ppl in the entire goddamm country?
besides that, Peterson refusing to address American health care dilemma while he was on the speaking tour, was likewise infuriating. He begged off saying he " wasn't knowledgable enough" but surely he knew that he got free health care & we don't = the crux of the matter? doesn't he have a magical govt-issued health-care card in his wallet that he carried around & used?
not knowledgable my ass.
"white middle class lifestyle/health care good enough for me, but not for thee" is what i hear when 'canadian conservatives' start talking.