California is much more likely to have better social services and AFAIK it is less violent in poor neighborhoods than southern states
I would much rather be poor in NYC than Georgia
It's a place that until relatively recently you didn't legally require a high school diploma to be a judge where people still talk about the civil war as if it was a crime against the South by the north and how black and white folks shouldn't intermarry.
Only 23% have an accurate understanding of evolution as a natural process and near half believe everything was created as is more or less 6000 years ago.
https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/religious-landscape-stu...
73% of white people voted for Trump
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/11/03/us/elections/...
Here is a map of areas with problems with basic literacy notice how it looks like a map of fallout fatalities after dirty bombs were dropped in the south.
https://map.barbarabush.org/overview/#intro
If we were going to build a wall in America to keep undesirable folks out it would be straight across the south not the southern border.
I'll note CA has equally illiterate areas. It looks like it's the current agricultural centers, just like the South, so I guess you'll be pushing to have California pushed into the ocean once we're unable to grow crops there too and those workers are no longer useful to your wealthy area? Seems like you might be the type of thinking that got us in this problem originally.
Are you counting the black people that didn't vote Biden as white? After all, if you don't vote Biden, then you ain't black.
Get over yourself. You aren't any better than all those deplorable your mocking.
Georgia and South Carolina tend to be the poorest states. The Poverty rate is around 14.5% for both. Compare that to California where the poverty rate is 12.5%. Though the poverty rate is lower, California has more people in poverty than Georgia and South Carolina combined. Anyway, using the word "impoverished" is grossly misleading.