What Do the 10 Poorest US Cities Have in Common?

Off Topic Politics and World Issues
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City, State, % of People Below the Poverty Level, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, 2006 American Community Survey, released August, 2007 (250K+ population)

  1. Detroit , MI 32.5%
  2. Buffalo , NY 29…9%
  3. Cincinnati , OH 27.8%
  4. Cleveland , OH 27.0%
  5. Miami , FL 26.9%
  6. St. Louis , MO 26.8%
  7. El Paso , TX 26.4%
  8. Milwaukee , WI 26.2%
  9. Philadelphia , PA 25.1%
  10. Newark , NJ 24.2%

What do the top ten cities (over 250,000 population) with the highest poverty rate all have in common?

Detroit, MI (1st on the poverty rate list) hasn’t elected a Republican mayor since 1961;

Buffalo, NY (2nd) hasn’t elected one since 1954;

Cincinnati, OH (3rd)…since 1984;

Cleveland, OH (4th)…since 1989;

Miami, FL (5th) has never had a Republican mayor;

St. Louis, MO (6th)…since 1949;

El Paso, TX (7th) has never had a Republican mayor;

Milwaukee, WI (8th)…since 1908;

Philadelphia, PA (9th)…since 1952;

Newark, NJ (10th)…since 1907.

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Right, but sooner or later, voting Democrat will bring benefit to these cities. They just gotta hang in there.

Don’t change horses midstream, and all that.

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So, is it cause or effect? Does voting Democrat cause poverty, or do poor people tend to vote Democrat?

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Well, if you stop now that just makes you a quitter. No one likes a quitter.

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[quote]Valor wrote:
City, State, % of People Below the Poverty Level, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, 2006 American Community Survey, released August, 2007 (250K+ population)

  1. Detroit , MI 32.5%
  2. Buffalo , NY 29…9%
  3. Cincinnati , OH 27.8%
  4. Cleveland , OH 27.0%
  5. Miami , FL 26.9%
  6. St. Louis , MO 26.8%
  7. El Paso , TX 26.4%
  8. Milwaukee , WI 26.2%
  9. Philadelphia , PA 25.1%
  10. Newark , NJ 24.2%

What do the top ten cities (over 250,000 population) with the highest poverty rate all have in common?

Detroit, MI (1st on the poverty rate list) hasn’t elected a Republican mayor since 1961;

Buffalo, NY (2nd) hasn’t elected one since 1954;

Cincinnati, OH (3rd)…since 1984;

Cleveland, OH (4th)…since 1989;

Miami, FL (5th) has never had a Republican mayor;

St. Louis, MO (6th)…since 1949;

El Paso, TX (7th) has never had a Republican mayor;

Milwaukee, WI (8th)…since 1908;

Philadelphia, PA (9th)…since 1952;

Newark, NJ (10th)…since 1907.
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I see alot of old cities of industry on that list, which as Fordism declined, the economy went global ect… - minorities stayed and the whites moved to suburbs… I can then understand why more of these minorities would vote Democrat in false hope that it would actually do anything ( unfortunately Democrat or Republican they’re both on every corporation’s payroll, so it doesn’t matter anymore)

What about the 10 richest cities?

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[quote]Valor wrote:
City, State, % of People Below the Poverty Level, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, 2006 American Community Survey, released August, 2007 (250K+ population)

  1. Detroit , MI 32.5%
  2. Buffalo , NY 29…9%
  3. Cincinnati , OH 27.8%
  4. Cleveland , OH 27.0%
  5. Miami , FL 26.9%
  6. St. Louis , MO 26.8%
  7. El Paso , TX 26.4%
  8. Milwaukee , WI 26.2%
  9. Philadelphia , PA 25.1%
  10. Newark , NJ 24.2%

What do the top ten cities (over 250,000 population) with the highest poverty rate all have in common?

Detroit, MI (1st on the poverty rate list) hasn’t elected a Republican mayor since 1961;

Buffalo, NY (2nd) hasn’t elected one since 1954;

Cincinnati, OH (3rd)…since 1984;

Cleveland, OH (4th)…since 1989;

Miami, FL (5th) has never had a Republican mayor;

St. Louis, MO (6th)…since 1949;

El Paso, TX (7th) has never had a Republican mayor;

Milwaukee, WI (8th)…since 1908;

Philadelphia, PA (9th)…since 1952;

Newark, NJ (10th)…since 1907.
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You might have point if there was an actual difference between the two parties.

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[quote]HG Thrower wrote:
So, is it cause or effect? Does voting Democrat cause poverty, or do poor people tend to vote Democrat?[/quote]

There’s no such conundrum in figuring out what cause and effect did not occur.

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And with regard to industries failing, might there be a cause-and-effect relationship between government and decimation or even annihilation of once-successful industries?

Oh, probably not.

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[quote]Bill Roberts wrote:
And with regard to industries failing, might there be a cause-and-effect relationship between government and decimation or even annihilation of once-successful industries?

Oh, probably not.[/quote]

No ones blaming the government.

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I was gonna take a guess and say that these cities all had ultra strict gun laws before I read the rest of your post. I really don’t see ths as a Dem/Repub issue I see it as liberal vs conservitive economic policy. Even though Bush had a “R” on the political party he belonged too, he was a fiscal socialist.

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I do not know all of them, but you can thank Ronald Reagan for fucking the Steel Industry for Detroit, Buffalo, Cinci, Cleve St. Louis, Philly and Newark

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I am surprised Flint Mich did not make that list

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Population is only around 100,000

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Majority Black or Minorities?

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Isn’t it Obvious that Success for the people who vote democrat is impossible? The Democrats Delivering their voting blocks out of their state of despair will surely lose them their voting base. They’d be shooting themselves in the foot. Successful people tend to turn Republican.

The Democrats are true Communists in Disguise. Wolves in Sheep’s clothing.

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“The government that governs least governs best.” – Jefferson

Maybe we shoulda listened?

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[quote]Gregus wrote:
Isn’t it Obvious that Success for the people who vote democrat is impossible? The Democrats Delivering their voting blocks out of their state of despair will surely lose them their voting base. They’d be shooting themselves in the foot. Successful people tend to turn Republican.

The Democrats are true Communists in Disguise. Wolves in Sheep’s clothing. [/quote]

Worse, they are delusional sheep in sheeps clothing who think that they are wolves.

Ambitious sheeple really.

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[quote]orion wrote:

[quote]Gregus wrote:
Isn’t it Obvious that Success for the people who vote democrat is impossible? The Democrats Delivering their voting blocks out of their state of despair will surely lose them their voting base. They’d be shooting themselves in the foot. Successful people tend to turn Republican.

The Democrats are true Communists in Disguise. Wolves in Sheep’s clothing. [/quote]

Worse, they are delusional sheep in sheeps clothing who think that they are wolves.

Ambitious sheeple really.

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lol.

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[quote]Headhunter wrote:
“The government that governs least governs best.” – Jefferson

Maybe we shoulda listened?[/quote]

I hate to break it to you but i feel like the public and the “people” who made America are no longer the same “people”. Those are people of the last. The people of today have been sleeping for a long time and number of people wanting to do less for more is ever growing. The perfect social balance is shifting towards socialism in this country.

You and people like Me as well as others are a relic of past and our method of thinking and just “thinking” period, is something people no longer do or not in a productive way.

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[quote]pittbulll wrote:
I do not know all of them, but you can thank Ronald Reagan for fucking the Steel Industry for Detroit, Buffalo, Cinci, Cleve St. Louis, Philly and Newark[/quote]

My former in-laws were from the Detroit and Cleveland areas and I can agree with this quote first hand. Once the steel industry fell apart those towns were decimated (and left with a lazy workforce that knew nothing other than how to put a car together).

As for El Paso it’s just a shithole across the border from the murder capital of Mexico.