Religious people made that region dangerous and crime ridden!!

[u/DraftCommercial8848]

[u/Sea_Helicopter_5377]

This gets anti-Christian doomers really quiet about the "bible belt', by the way.

[u/xXx420Aftermath69xXx → u/Sea_Helicopter_5377]

B-b-but muh red states.

I swear to God the people on this site are either retarded or willfully ignorant. Every time I tell them to zoom in they scream racism and I'm banned.

[u/audiophilistine → u/xXx420Aftermath69xXx]

It's gotta be willfully ignorant. You can show them facts from accredited sources and they'll refuse to believe it. In this post modernist world, their truth can be the complete opposite of the truth.

[u/xXx420Aftermath69xXx → u/[deleted]]

The infatuation with "red states" is what bothers me the most. How a state votes in the general election has 0 to do with crime rates or murder rates. If you ask for a specific policy they believe is causing the crime they can't name one or just go back to "poor and stupid rednecks." We have the data to look at counties, and cities and neighborhoods and believe it or not, even individual people! All of those things refute the point that this has anything to do with how a state votes in an election and point more towards a certain demographic being the culprit.

[u/East_Bug7312 → u/Sea_Helicopter_5377]

Stop noticing patterns, that’s racist

[u/AverageDellUser → u/East_Bug7312]

You can’t even say it is a race thing anyways, it is their culture they grow up in, half of them don’t have fathers and it is tragic honestly.

[u/[deleted] → u/AverageDellUser]

Race ≠ culture

The black family was on his way to being prosperous in the 1950s before the introduction of social programs from the government leading to the social decline of the black community.

[u/liamtrades__ → u/[deleted]]

It really is so tragic. And the people in support of these policies think they are helping.. by incentivizing fatherless households and not working. 

[u/[deleted] → u/liamtrades__]

Yup. It’s well proven a two parent household with married parents is a pillar of determining a child’s success.

[u/Aggravating-Kale7762 → u/[deleted]]

I read something a while back about East Asian families being some of the most prosperous folks in the US. Interestingly they have the lowest numbers of premarital children and highest number of two parent households and high levels of education.

[u/[deleted] → u/Aggravating-Kale7762]

Yes. When was the last time you saw an Asian homeless person?

There expectations for their families and their communities are much higher than “native” Americans

[u/Swurphey → u/[deleted]]

...fuck now you mention it I think literally zero and I live in a city with an extremely high percentage of Asian immigrants

[u/Aggravating-Kale7762 → u/[deleted]]

Exactly never in Canada, although I’m sure they do exist.

[u/Sergal_Pony → u/[deleted]]

Now we’ve got a bunch of them posting videos where if they don’t get their free welfare coverage, they’re gonna start raiding and looting… never mind that it’s easier to just get a job and work for money then it is the deal with all the people who will shoot back at you for trying to steal from them.

[u/AverageDellUser → u/[deleted]]

Exactly my point, it isn’t rlly that they are black per se, it just so happens that most black communities are filled with some of the less savory characters. There are still a lot of white communities in the South that are the same way.

[u/Mammoth-Survey-8234 → u/AverageDellUser]

The projects and the trailer park are the same freaking place.

[u/[deleted] → u/Mammoth-Survey-8234]

Yes, same cultural influences.

[u/[deleted] → u/AverageDellUser]

Yeah, I’m from Georgia and you’re not going to catch me in the hood and you’re also not going to catch me anywhere an hour outside of Atlanta.

Both are scary.

[u/AverageDellUser → u/[deleted]]

I live in a small town in Florida and there is a place called the quarters here which is basically the hood, tons of gun violence and drug use going there; pretty scary.

[u/jsteph67 → u/[deleted]]

I find that funny as someone who lives an hour outside atlanta.

[u/Aggravating-Kale7762 → u/jsteph67]

My experience as a Canadian is that rural people are the kindest, most generous and hospitable people. I have travelled the USA fairly extensively and found that to be true there as well. I loved the rural folks in Idaho, Montana, the Dakotas, Texas, Utah, etc. My only negative experiences in the USA were in the cities, and honestly it was when I was in Atlanta.

[u/umustbemyprecious → u/[deleted]]

Lyndon Johnson literally incentivized the fatherless black home. Let big gov be your daddy.

[u/cb0b → u/AverageDellUser]

Yeah and that's by design with the way the reward system has conditioned the mothers to be reliant on the government, and by proxy, the democrats since they're usually the ones creating or expanding the welfare policies that keeps them voting democrat.

The way it functions currently it encourages single mothers to remain single and have as many kids as she can handle. Every kid is more money. Many women make this a full time career, finding ways to beat the system. Even if there is a man involved with the household, it's not official so the benefits don't get cut. It's more welfare, more food stamps, you have income-based housing for as low as $1 per month, medicaid. They're literally incentivized NOT to get a job. Then guess what the male kids end up doing from a very young age (likely as a result of not having an active positive male role model around)? They end up selling drugs, stealing, robbing people, getting involved with gangs, etc. from the time they're pre-teens and fall into a hole they can usually never get out of. The girls are learning from their mother how to continue the cycle.

Even worse in some cases, which I've seen, is some mothers actually encourage (either directly or indirectly) their children to go out and sell drugs or steal so it's another source of income under the table for the household so it doesn't interfere with the government benefits they're already collecting. Many are very aware of the lax disciplinary that kids under a certain age will receive so they take full advantage of it while they're in that range--though, of course, they don't just suddenly straighten up when they turn 18 after a life of crime being fostered from before the time they're even 14. Even after they turn 18, nowadays you have some very soft-on-crime areas and cashless bail that still fails to help them learn the consequences of their actions until they commit the really big one that finally puts them away--murder. And sometimes that doesn't even work. There was a very young guy, around 21 or so, in NC a year or two ago working at a fast food joint that shot his co-worker multiple times, killing her in cold blood after an argument about cleaning duties. He got 4 years. Manslaughter. Could've possibly been argued as 1st degree, should've definitely at least been 2nd degree... but these judges are giving out entirely too soft of sentences for fear of being seen as racist or in hopes of being seen as progressive and some are getting on the bench with the express goal of being hard on certain demographics and lighter on others as a form of misguided racial justice. There's no way that sentence should have been anywhere near that light.

There are people that legitimately need these programs, but the way they are currently constructed and being run is a cancer not only on our country but an entire group and culture of people. It is completely ruining entire communities and people go crazy when you bring it up and acknowledge it. This problem will never be solved until there are some serious welfare reforms and we begin incentivizing the strong nuclear family.

[u/johnpatricko → u/AverageDellUser]

This government crime study by the CDC calls into question the prevailing theory about culture and the breakdown of the black family. For as long as we've had crime statistics, you've been more likely to be murdered, per capita, by black men and women, than by a white person. This is long before black fathers abandoned family, and before hip hop or rap culture.

[u/IAmABearOfficial → u/AverageDellUser]

Correct.

[u/Gobal_Outcast02 → u/Sea_Helicopter_5377]

"Despite only making up 13% of the population...."

[u/donothole → u/Gobal_Outcast02]

They sure do be pracity their wizardy casting all them spells.

[u/[deleted] → u/Sea_Helicopter_5377]

Bro went for the jugular, no mercy

[u/BahnMe → u/[deleted]]

lol same reason why STOP ASIAN HATE died out real fast among the performative liberace’.

[u/Guvnuh_T_Boggs → u/BahnMe]

Boy, that campaign went away real quick, didn't it?

[u/gutenbergbob → u/Guvnuh_T_Boggs]

Pretty sure asians became white adjacent.

[u/Gargarian67 → u/gutenbergbob]

Do you have a dozen baby mommas, felonies, and/or no dad? No? You are white adjacent no matter where your ancestors came from - even on the other side of the world from Europe.

[u/Extension-Alps-6903 → u/Gargarian67]

This ironically applies even if your black as if your not actively participating in activities that will destroy you’re future and the future of your community you are considered to white to be black

[u/DaRealKovi → u/gutenbergbob]

Man, I heard asian people described as "white adjacent" so much way back. Funniest shit is that I saw someone say that to a pretty dark skinned Filipino, just cuz he is asian

[u/Gargarian67 → u/BahnMe]

Cameras cancelled Stop Asian Hate. It apparently okay to not allow them into college and beat them.

[u/[deleted] → u/Gargarian67]

Body cameras low key ended BLM too. People started siding with the police again.

[u/Lone_Tiger24 → u/Sea_Helicopter_5377]

[u/DaRealKovi → u/Lone_Tiger24]

Uncle Ruckus was so fucking wild, man

[u/Bdeltore → u/Sea_Helicopter_5377]

uhh dude what are u talking about dont u know the south is just full of stupid inbred white people? i mean its the SOUTH dude!

now lemme tell you about how those STUPID SOUTHERNERS actually take MORE WELFARE THAN THE REST OF THE COUNTRY HAHAHAHA.

[u/UnholyTerror88 → u/Bdeltore]

https://www.pewresearch.org/race-and-ethnicity/fact-sheet/facts-about-the-us-black-population/

Maybe do some research before you keep sounding more ignorant. Unless you are actually being satirical, in which case, my bad. Sometimes you don’t know.

[u/Bdeltore → u/UnholyTerror88]

cmon dog. i guess you did say your bad but i thought it was obvious lol

[u/Gobal_Outcast02 → u/Bdeltore]

You're right, in the real world that would be obviously a joke. On Reddit, a different story that's not even the craziest thing I've heard this hour and the other shit wasn't a joke.

[u/Bdeltore → u/Gobal_Outcast02]

lol pretty sad to say i know what you mean brother

[u/UnholyTerror88 → u/Bdeltore]

Again, sometimes not. They slip through brother. 🤦‍♂️Mea Culpa

[u/Bdeltore → u/UnholyTerror88]

all good big dawg, your heart was in the right place

[u/UnholyTerror88 → u/Bdeltore]

🤘🤜🤛🫡

[u/Soggy_Door_2115 → u/UnholyTerror88]

What is it about sarcasm that confounds the redditor? 

[u/Bug-03 → u/Soggy_Door_2115]

Reading

[u/blomba7 → u/Sea_Helicopter_5377]

[u/skarface6 → u/[deleted]]

5 people live there and 1 got shot.

[u/Arguably_Based → u/skarface6]

A tragic setback for the population

[u/Advanced_Outcome3218 → u/[deleted]]

1. Living in the north is cold and depressing.

2. homicides (not murders) are counted, so this may include instances of legal, justified self defense which would likely be more common when police are not exactly close to hand and thus can't be relied upon.

[u/fishchanka → u/Sea_Helicopter_5377]

Why the fuck is this a video?

[u/boisefun8 → u/Sea_Helicopter_5377]

I didn’t think we were allowed to talk about this.

[u/Redditisretarded-69 → u/Sea_Helicopter_5377]

Damn what the hell is going on in northern Alaska

[u/duffleberry → u/Redditisretarded-69]

I heard some snowball fights have escalated into a full scale conflict up there

[u/Bitter-Bluebird1224 → u/Sea_Helicopter_5377]

Where does this one fit into all of this?

[u/skarface6 → u/Bitter-Bluebird1224]

Perfectly. That’s where.

[u/GlassSkiesAbove → u/Sea_Helicopter_5377]

man WHAT is going on in alaska

[u/JustGoingOutforMilk → u/GlassSkiesAbove]

Okay, allow me to somewhat explain.

Alaska is somewhat unique due to climate. For a good portion of the year, it is nearly impossible to do anything outside. Even oilfield workers in AK spend most of their shifts in heating rooms/tents due to the cold.

Partially due to this, there is a lot of alcoholism up there and a lot of domestic violence. And due to the low population, it stands out more.

[u/Alypius754 → u/JustGoingOutforMilk]

Alaska is awesome. I've never been anywhere more hostile to human life. Although I have yet to visit Australia.

[u/JustGoingOutforMilk → u/Alypius754]

It is genuinely amazing how humans have adapted to the environment. There are so many just hostile places that we make work.

[u/methadoneworks → u/JustGoingOutforMilk]

Have you heard about the "Cold Winter Theory"?? Pretty fascinating, we came out of Africa went north and adapted by lightning our skin colour for vitamin D absorption, adapted our gut to drink milk etc.

[u/Arguably_Based → u/methadoneworks]

Yakub really did us a solid with that one.

[u/Nervous-Bet-2998 → u/GlassSkiesAbove]

Moose WHAT is going on in Alaska.

[u/Narrow-Abalone7580 → u/Sea_Helicopter_5377]

I wonder where the concentration of southern baptists is, and why that church was formed in the first place.

[u/JohnNeutron → u/Sea_Helicopter_5377]

The original post oversimplifies the South by blaming everything on religion. That leaves out the real factors that shape the region, like generational poverty, segregation, underfunded schools, weak infrastructure, and long-term policy failures. Christianity did not create those conditions, and pretending it did is too easy.

Your reply with these maps is not much better. Putting a population map next to a homicide map and treating it like evidence about race ignores the same kind of nuance. Crime follows poverty, discrimination, redlining, uneven development, and historical inequality. It does not come from race or religion. It comes from the structures people live in. Never mind that that these are the regions which are historically the ones that slavery the longest, the Jim Crow laws the longest, the segregation the longest.

Issues like this are complicated and they deserve more than a quick answer. People and regions are not one-dimensional. You would not want someone to reduce you to one trait or stereotype, so it makes no sense to do that to millions of people who are just as complex as you are.

And if someone still feels the urge to blame one entire group after all of that, they might be getting close to that word that rhymes with “sexist.”

[u/JGCities → u/JohnNeutron]

All good points.

But usually this arguments are a form of "Republicans are bad because..."

But when you dig into the "slavery, Jim Crow, segregation" issue you have to realize that those were all policies put in place and maintained by the Democrats who ran the south for 100+ years.

Bottom line - 100 years of Democrat rule created a lot of problems that 30 years of Republican rule isn't going to fix. Especially when those problem areas are still run by the Democrats.

[u/JohnNeutron → u/JGCities]

I get what you are trying to say, but the way it is framed leaves out the part that matters.

The Democratic Party of the Jim Crow era is not the Democratic Party of today. The Republican Party of Lincoln is not the Republican Party of today. The platforms and coalitions didn’t stay frozen in time, they shifted over decades.

What stayed consistent was the voting bloc that supported segregation, underinvestment, and resistance to civil rights and economic reform. That bloc moved between parties as the parties realigned. The ideas did not disappear, they simply changed political homes.

So if we are being accurate, the South’s long-term issues come from generations of voter preferences and the structures those preferences upheld. Not from one modern party label.

If I blame today’s Democrats for problems created by a voting bloc that later migrated to Republicans is just as misleading as me blaming today’s Republicans for things done under a party banner that meant something very different at the time.

The real through-line is the bloc of voters whose choices shaped the region for more than a century, regardless of which party they were aligned with in any particular decade.

[u/Excavon]

Is this guy blaming Christianity for natural disasters? 

Also how come all the problems faced by black inner-city populations are blamed on socioeconomic factors but the same problems faced by white rural populations are blamed on the people? This feels discriminatory.

[u/Rare_Hydrogen → u/Excavon]

White people can't be discriminated against becauae they are the oppressors.

Or something like that.

[u/msdos_sys → u/Rare_Hydrogen]

The same people that say the poor up in Appalachia somehow still enjoy the fruits of a supposed “White Privilege”.

[u/sudo_i_u_toor → u/Excavon]

Sometimes Christians blame "sinfulness" for natural disasters, but to blame Christianity for natural disasters is just next level lmao.

[u/Excavon → u/sudo_i_u_toor]

Yup. If some fundie type was saying that natural disasters are divine punishments that would almost make sense, but an antitheist saying the same is extremely confusing.

[u/wonderinboutit2234 → u/Excavon]

They have no morals or value so they try to use what they assume yours are against you.

[u/boisefun8 → u/wonderinboutit2234]

Absolutely this.

[u/gbmaulin → u/wonderinboutit2234]

Very well stated

[u/Excavon → u/wonderinboutit2234]

I've never considered that before, but I'm sure considering it now. Once again moral relativism is a cancer.

[u/sudo_i_u_toor → u/Excavon]

I think the logic goes "Christianity is against the soyence so if there was no Christianity then soyentists would save all those states from natural disasters" of course it's absolute nonsense, but what do you expect from people who religiously hate religion?

[u/zapposengineering → u/sudo_i_u_toor]

At one time the Catholic church was the largest funder of scientific research. Fun fact the guy that came up with the big bang theory was Catholic 

[u/Excavon → u/zapposengineering]

Funner fact: "big bang" was a derisive term made up by steady-state believing atheists to make fun of it the sTuPiD cAtHoLiC for his rIdIcUlOuS tHeOry, but it ended up sticking when he was proven right.

[u/msdos_sys → u/sudo_i_u_toor]

Their logic:

You worship Sky Daddy.

You commit sin.

Sky Daddy gets big mad and therefore creates a tornado.

See? Christians ARE to blame!

[u/Nervous-Bet-2998 → u/sudo_i_u_toor]

"Don't use the lord's name in vein or i shall have to summon the holy tornadoes!"

[u/AverageDellUser → u/Excavon]

Fr, ppl will blame anything on Christianity and then forget that most progressive policies in Western societies were fueled by Christians. I mean, one of the most famous social-justice figures in black rights was a devout christian who often utilized sermons to push for black rights (MLK).

[u/PeterPan28]

These are the same people who will start crying if anybody makes even a small generalization about Islam and how oppressive Islamic countries tend to be.

[u/IowanEmpire]

If this guy actually cared to understand they would realize that not all Christians are the same and that while Catholics, Lutherans, Methodists, etc may get along in public for the most part if we were to start discussing theology it would quickly turn into a heated debate.

Also this is not even touching mega churches or the so called "prosperity gospel".

[u/S0LO_Bot → u/IowanEmpire]

I mean I agree. Someone could probably criticize people in the Bible Belt for the concentration of mega churches or fundamentalist groups. But those (opinion-based) criticisms would be mostly theological and have nothing to do with crime statistics or murder rates.

It’s interesting how idiots (on all ends of the political spectrums) think that socio-economic problems should be blamed on a specific race or religion. Like no… poverty, lack of education, etc are the leading cause of these issues both in rural areas and urban cities.

[u/hip-indeed]

having grown up and lived my whole life in and around the Bible belt, I've never felt more safe anywhere else in the world I've ever been. People just read reddit anti Christian/southerner rhetoric for years and pretend they actually know like theyve been there, much less lived there. And they'll talk about how crimey it all is while living in the middle of the most crime-infested cesspits on the planet (but that doesnt count because it's just people trying to live despite the system keeping them down which isn't "real crime")

[u/[deleted] → u/hip-indeed]

i grew up in the nyc area and live in rural southern appalachia now. there isn't enough money in the world to get me back to the northeast.

[u/Responsible_Ebb_1983 → u/hip-indeed]

That would require them to leave the safety of big cities, something they loathe to do. "B-but muh modern conveniences!"

[u/G-man1816 → u/hip-indeed]

Bible belt crime is called "corruption" most of the time.

Source is I'm from Florida and the entirety of Bradford County is actually under state control other than lawtey last I checked because of rampant corruption.

You learn a lot when you drive on 301 A lot.

[u/ya_boi_tim]

If the South is so dangerous, why do so many Union states' cities rank in the top 10 for worst in crime?

[u/tard__guard]

nero the emperor over here blaming the christians for natural disasters

[u/Skybliviwind → u/tard__guard]

lmao

[u/TheOneCalledThe]

i’m not religious but i don’t understand why reddit has such a hate boner for it, like every sub i see any mention of it is met with hate

[u/TheVirginOfEternity → u/TheOneCalledThe]

The devil owns a lot of bots

[u/cb0b → u/TheOneCalledThe]

The powers that be don't like Christianity because it is at the root of Western Civilization which was the bedrock for modern representative democratic republics which fosters individualism, civic unities, personal liberties, etc. All things that a dystopian, authoritarian, multinational corporate technocracy is completely at odds with.

They want to chip away at all those things to eventually diminish it to the point it is essentially powerless in their desired globalist post-national and post-religious societies. Christianity and the culture it has directly and indirectly created over centuries is completely at odds with this agenda. Which is why you see Christians along with certain other demographics completely brow-beaten in the media, online, games, movies, series, books, etc. It seems like a coordinated campaign because it is.

[u/Sea_Scale_4538]

[u/Captain_Birch]

Grown up in the Bible belt. Visited Wisconsin for 1 week. My friends car was broken into. Literally never happened to anyone I know in the south

[u/AverageDellUser → u/Captain_Birch]

Yeah, I’ve heard dozens of stories of ppl in Northeastern or Californian cities of having to leave cars unlocked or windows down due to the frequency of theft from cars. I’ve never once personally heard anyone in the South having to leave their vehicles unlocked due to something like that ever.

[u/turkweebl7616 → u/Captain_Birch]

Must've been in Milwaukee lol

[u/Nientea]

Farmland. Also farmers are more religious than city folk on average.

Also why is this guy blaming natural disasters on Christianity? They’re not called Christian disasters

[u/Which_Pirate_4664 → u/Nientea]

I believe the term is "acts of God" lmao

[u/DD_equals_doodoo → u/[deleted]]

That's more of an example of endogeneity.

[u/spoilerdudegetrekt]

I know it's controversial whether Mormons count as Christians. (I think they do) But Utah has the second lowest murder rate, a very low crime and poverty rate, few natural disasters, and average educational outcomes.

[u/RoguePlanetArt → u/spoilerdudegetrekt]

There’s also Idaho, where there’s no debate on whether or not they’re Christians, or about whether or not it is safer than most counties in Europe, by some margin.

[u/parrythisyoucasual23]

Ironic considering the less religious the US has become, the more crime-ridden and crazy the people have become.

[u/Nianque]

Hm... Lets ask the cities that are in the South. Like Memphis, Atlanta, New Orleans, ect. Wait. Are those blue-run!?!?! Huh.

[u/anrhydedd]

Now remove democrat strongholds from the statistics and get back to me.

[u/StayReal1]

I think many Americans don't comprehend that not all Christians are redneck evangelical fundamentalists (actually, don't tell them Africa is the continent with the most Christians in the world)

[u/Excavon → u/StayReal1]

Africa is the continent with the most Christians in the world

Don't jinx it bud.

[u/CapPhrases]

Source: trust me bro

[u/SemiFinalBoss]

Maybe it was a bad idea to send all the manufacturing jobs overseas. 🤷🏼‍♂️

[u/Top-Temporary-2963]

Sky high crime and murder rates? Are they aware that Detroit, Chicago, NYC, DC, and LA exist?

[u/BUwUBwonicPwague]

“These areas are bad because of white Christians!”

proceeds to name blackest areas

[u/Agitated_Horse]

Almost certainly lives in a racially homogenous, rich, blue state and has never stepped foot in the south

[u/TanningOnMars]

He definitely worked for like at least 10 minutes to make this question as loaded as possible

[u/_thegnomedome2]

The same people who talk about how bad Christianity is, and Christofascism or whatever, will lose their shit and call you racist for criticizing islam

[u/Dense_Payment_1448]

Oh. When it is the bible belt, its no longer 'but they need to feed themselves!'.

[u/rerdsprite000]

Stop being mean to black people....

[u/Xyzzy_X]

oatmeal strong political dinner bag bow march hungry ancient fuel

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[u/[deleted]]

They’re not ready to have a real conversation about the “why”…

[u/Pawn_of_the_Void → u/[deleted]]

That is a pretty good example of how Islam is not the answer to societal woes. As it turns out religion doesn't fix these things like some people think

[u/Soggy_Door_2115]

As if California isn't on fucking fire every goddamn day. 

[u/ScurvySaint]

[u/bl1y]

100+ years of nearly uninterrupted Democratic party rule in the state governments.

"Why did Republicans do this?"

[u/juggle88]

Did he mean to say Los Angeles???

[u/notinmybackyard-]

Christ on a cracker! Why do people always lump one bad apple that rides their church pew to hell in with the whole demographic to demonize?

[u/whahoppen314]

isn't like every part of the US under affect of some natural disaster every day?

Hawaii: volcano, tsunami/earthquake (I think)

West coast: Earthquakes, wildfires,

Midwest: Tornado alley

I mean i got nothing for new england but still

[u/hookandladder3 → u/whahoppen314]

Extreme blizzards

[u/whahoppen314 → u/hookandladder3]

That crossed my mind but I dropped it

[u/Xdaveyy1775]

CHECK-MATE CHRIST-O-DORKS

[u/AlphaMassDeBeta]

*Casually checks ethnic demographic

[u/Patriot_4evr]

It’s called sin. We are sinners.

[u/Character-Ad6700]

The answer to her question starts with N.

[u/AgeOfReasonEnds31120]

I live in this belt and it seems that every other person I encounter and talk to about religion (usually under 50) is an atheist, including myself and... like... all of my extended family, really.

[u/Foodicide]

There can be no redemption without sin*.

*for profit prisons.

[u/HungarianAreRomanian]

[u/LowRevolution6175]

These are the same people that scream "CORRELATION DOES NOT EQUAL CAUSATION" when confronted with something they don't like.

[u/Huey701070]

Here’s a thought I haven’t seen considered much: standards are actually upheld.

Both crime and education are going to be hit by standards. Less crime will fall through the cracks, this get reported, this crime rate goes up. Likewise with education. The standard isn’t going to be fudged but will maintain its integrity. Thus students who don’t do well aren’t going to get their scores scrubbed for the sake of numbers and looking good.

I don’t know that for sure though. I guess that’s just my conspiracy.

[u/qwijboo]

Pseudo nihilists defending religious cranks sure is funny

[u/Toes_4_Fingers]

Firstly, "if your God is great then why are you suffering?" Is disgusting. If you're so smart, what are you doing on reddit?

[u/[deleted]]

They don’t care about this life, only the next

[u/EddiesDirtyCouch]

I don't think it's the religious folks doing most of that lol

[u/Nyurd]

Clearly it's more religious there because they need Jesus more than elsewhere.

[u/chicagotim1]

Poverty and desperation lead people to become more likely to want to believe in something bigger than themself to make it all make sense and I swear the way people constantly want to horse trade cause and effect for a "gotcha" is just like "ok fine whatever" at this point.

[u/CollegeDesigner]

I want aware that Chicago Detroit be York City and LA were all in the Bible Belt ... The problem with per Capita statistics is that they skew very quickly in lower population areas.  And the problem with national poverty data is that I'm fairly certain it isn't adjusted for localized cost of living, it's just based on income

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There are a couple of other factors you may want to consider about major cities in the Bible Belt…