What city or state has an unusually high percentage of under-educated, working-poor whites?

Question

Toledo, Buffalo, West Virgina, Indiana, Ohio, Alabama, Birmingham, Detroit, Cleveland, Flint, etc., etc.? Name me an area, state or town which would be your top choice.

Answer 1

As someone from the Southern U.S. (the state of Arkansas) you would be looking in either Alabama or Mississippi for that question. We here in Arkansas have a saying, "Thank God for Mississippi" becuase it keeps us and other states from being last quite a few times. :/ Also, the weather is more volatile down there. Detroit has a higher percentage of unemployment usually because of the automobile plants there. However, I'm sure all the workers are just as educated as most people, since most know they will end up at one of the local plants, they have no reason to drop out early.

These are all great states, with lots of natural beauty and great areas for business. However, there is still room for improvement anywhere.

Answer 2

A lot of the dirty, old, industrial cities in America's rust belt have huge pockets of what some people call, "Northern White Trash." These people are not like the hillbillies of Apalachia who usually come to mind when the derogatory phrase, "white trash" is used. Rather, they are generally 3rd or 4th generation Americans descended from unskilled, illiterate immigrants from eastern and southern Europe who came to work in the car factories, the machine shops, the foundries, the steel mills, and the oil refineries that at one time proliferated around their neighbourhoods. Their descendents are usually equally unskilled and barely literate due primarily to the poor quality educational programmes offered by most inner city school districts. With the deindustrialisation of the Western economy over the last 30 years, these same people who would have found well-paid work in large unionised factories and would have then left their inner city neighbourhoods for greener suburbia, were instead stunted along this line of economic progression. Many then regressed into unemployment, welfare dependency, teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and the undergroud economy.

There are vast pockets of predominantly poor white areas in most cities near the Great Lakes that once were heavily reliant on manufacturing. Detroit, Cleveland, Buffalo, Pittsburgh, Toledo, Youngstown, Flint, South Chicago, Gary, Lima, Saginaw, Erie, Green Bay, Milwaukee, etc., etc. all have certain neighbourhoods notorious for an over abundance of dirty, ignorant, violent, crime prone, white trash.

Answer 3

West Virginia (pick a city)

Answer 4

West Virginia in small towns where there are shorties of jobs.

Answer 5

Mississippi probably tops the list.

Answer 6

trick question- cause society is structured to give all whites advantages all over the place.

good one though.

Answer 7

district of columbia has a bunch of slackers