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And the problem I'm referring to existed long before this current problem compounding and making it worse. That there are people who will not drag themselves anywhere, and would do everything crime or scheme under the sun rather than work (even if it is more work to do so). And that they make up large quantities of a community across many Southern states.
I was the trailer trash running around the swamps, not the business owner. I got to watch the levels they would go to to exploit every angle possible for pennies when they would get dimes for the most basic of jobs. My own uncle never worked a single job in his 50 years, despite every chance to do so, so that he could scrape by on schemes and stealing. The very idea of work offended him, when he could beg and exploit others.
That might be what you were talking about, but I made it clear from the outset that I was not making a position on the issue. Only that if you wanted to "balkanize" you would have to deal with an issue that would bring you into some extreme racial conflict because an absurd amount of the black community in the South is both welfare born and unable to actually do any real job due to lack of education, experience, or even the ability to be a functional adult for 8 hours in a row.
Its easy to say "oh I'll risk the suffering" until roving gangs are plundering neighborhoods in desperation, and nobody is willing to deal with the issue because "well that's racist." Rape, robbery, and nearly senseless violence.
That last bit isn't fantasy. Its what Louisiana dealt with in communities that took in New Orleans refugees after Katrina, and the government handouts couldn't keep up.
Bud, there are some people who work your way. There are people who don't work the way you describe. I'm not interested in your irredeemables and your family drama, I'm interested in keeping the lights on. This requires constant observation of what is, not philosophical tangents into what I think this means about society.
You've got some ideas, and these ideas are clearly based on some things you've seen, then extrapolated. I'm not super interested in that, because rather than indulge in weird Mad Max eschatonic silliness, I've got bills to pay, family to feed, hands to compensate.
This guy Louisianas.
Then you should probably get to work instead of jumping in people's discussions about what ifs regarding political schicms and the possible consequences of it.
You probably should leave too. In your epic attempts to own me you are describing yourself too.
All my observations come from my own home parish, plus a few nearby I visited often. The largest city of Houma is barely 33k people. Which is large enough to have multiple "if you go there, the cops won't even show up" black neighborhoods. New Iberia, where I spent a solid chunk as well is barely 27k people and the entire town is basically a welfare black area.
Unlike most of the rest of the country, many areas of the South, especially the Deep South, have very diverse populations everywhere instead of just the main mega cities, which makes the "city problem, not gonna happen to me" just putting your head in the sand of the reality most people live in.
You are the one crowing about having this heavy burden of bills to pay and not being interested in a discussion you decided to participate in. I invited you to leave it there because you yourself claimed to be uninterested in going further, yet you come back to still crow about how uninterested you are.
I've revealed where I spent the majority of my life right in this, and told you multiple times I was there. Ironically for your own attempt to say I can't handle disagreement, you seem to refuse to even accept someone else besides you might be from the South if they disagree with you.