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Why Britain is poorer than any US state, other than Mississippi
spectator.co.uk ^ | 22 August 2014 10:41 | By Fraser Nelson

Posted on 08/27/2014 11:48:58 AM PDT by Red Badger

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To: Red Badger
Now and again, America puts its inequality on display to the world. We saw it after Hurricane Katrina and we have seen it again in the unrest in Ferguson, Missouri. A white police offer shoots dead a black man, after having stopped him for jaywalking.

Lost me after that opening.

21 posted on 08/27/2014 12:39:38 PM PDT by kabar
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To: Buckeye McFrog; WayneS

What on Earth are you talking about?
They haven’t incinerated the buildings ,Yet.
I will give the mooslim communities their due..... they recreate the countries they originate from very accurately in the Cities they have taken over.


22 posted on 08/27/2014 12:43:33 PM PDT by moose07 (the truth will out ,one day. Doggies Rock.)
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To: Red Badger

Glad I live in the good part of Mississippi, the part where you can’t hear that RINO drivel SUPERTALK


23 posted on 08/27/2014 12:54:20 PM PDT by Sybeck1 (Thad is a thud for me)
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To: Sybeck1

Part of the reason I posted this is because I was raised in Mississippi until I was 14........................Northern part, southern Benton County................


24 posted on 08/27/2014 12:56:29 PM PDT by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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To: Red Badger

Hickory Flat?


25 posted on 08/27/2014 12:57:36 PM PDT by Sybeck1 (Thad is a thud for me)
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To: RegulatorCountry

Liberals idea of flyover country comes from Hollywood:

West Virginia - Deliverance
Mississippi - Mississippi Burning
Kansas - Wizard of Oz
Georgia - Dukes of Hazard
Tennessee - Walking Tall
Alabama - My Cousin Vinny
Louisiana - The Green Mile
Texas - Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Florida - Porky’s

Any others?....................


26 posted on 08/27/2014 1:03:12 PM PDT by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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To: Sybeck1

Dat’s My HOME!.................Still have relatives there, and Potts Camp, Cornersville, etc...............


27 posted on 08/27/2014 1:04:16 PM PDT by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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To: Red Badger

Mississippi blacks make up almost 40% of the population, the highest percentage of blacks in the U.S. It is wise to keep that in mind whenever Mississippi statistics are thrown around. There are counties here that are roughly 90% black and as FReepers might expect, all the failure and ruin that accompanies unfettered liberalism is on full display in those sad places. In contrast, my county here in northern Mississippi is quite conservative and it’s growing and thriving.


28 posted on 08/27/2014 1:16:40 PM PDT by .45 Long Colt
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To: cuban leaf

Yes and no. Yes, things tend to be smaller on the average in Britain. But my wife’s two sisters and their husbands who live in England and Scotland have very nice homes. It’s just that cars and houses are little smaller, and they’re a lot more expensive. But my in-laws live pretty good lives. They’re not lacking for things. However, even my wife wouldn’t want to live in England again. She’s likes the bigger, more wide-open U.S.A.


29 posted on 08/27/2014 1:29:41 PM PDT by driftless2 (For long term happiness, learn how to play the accordion.)
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To: Red Badger

Income is not the same as wealth. The UK has more wealth than more states than just Mississippi.


30 posted on 08/27/2014 1:32:39 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Red Badger

I know several people there. I grew up in the Red Banks Holly Springs area. Small world


31 posted on 08/27/2014 1:33:20 PM PDT by Sybeck1 (Thad is a thud for me)
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To: WayneS

The Jayhawks perhaps. But not the state. The few times I drove through Kansas I was struck by its simple beauty.


32 posted on 08/27/2014 1:34:46 PM PDT by Vermont Lt (Ebola: Death is a lagging indicator.)
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To: Vermont Lt
Oh, sure, we definitely need to malign Jayhawks. That goes without saying - just not the State of Kansas. ;-)
33 posted on 08/27/2014 1:38:29 PM PDT by WayneS (Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.)
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To: .45 Long Colt

My sister lives in Mississippi. For a while up in the Delta. Now down on the coast.

I generally like visiting. The pace is slower and the people are generally pretty nice.

But driving around in some of the more rural areas my daughter said to me that, for the most part, Haiti looked better than some of those areas. And my daughter has spent a few summers in Haiti with some missionary work.

That’s not the best endorsement someone could give a US state.


34 posted on 08/27/2014 1:39:05 PM PDT by Vermont Lt (Ebola: Death is a lagging indicator.)
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To: WayneS

You should read “What’s The Matter With Kansas” by New York Slimes writer Thomas Frank. Frank grew up in Kansas and thinks it’s basically a third world country because it tends to vote for Republicans. Let’s just say Frank gets many things wrong in his book.


35 posted on 08/27/2014 1:42:28 PM PDT by driftless2 (For long term happiness, learn how to play the accordion.)
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To: Vermont Lt

In 1971, I ran out of gas on a non-interstate near Meridian in the middle of the night. With me in my little Datsun station wagon were my wife and infant son.

A 25ish black guy came along and offered to drive me to the nearest gas station. Leaving my son and wife, who thought she’d never see me again, with the car I rode with the guy to his house to tell his wife where he was going.

The house was a one room log cabinish affair off of the main road a ways. We left there and drove in his Ford sedan to a gas station where I got a can of gas and in gratitude, offered to fill his car up for him. Damn, that Ford held a ton of gasoline!

Anyway, we got back to my car, put the gas in and my family and I continued our Mississippi journey, shaken but not stirred.


36 posted on 08/27/2014 1:47:39 PM PDT by Sparklite
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To: .45 Long Colt

What part? I’m From Hickory Flat, originally.........


37 posted on 08/27/2014 1:54:27 PM PDT by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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To: Vermont Lt

I drove clear across Kansas twice, on I-70, both ways.
I fell asleep at the wheel in Kansas City and woke up in Denver............


38 posted on 08/27/2014 1:56:04 PM PDT by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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To: KC_Lion

Gun crime in the UK is still a fraction of the US.
Its actually levelled out and is dropping, the worst time was the 90’s and 00’s.

And the UK does not prosecute gun owners who defend themselves. You are I assume referring to Tony Martin. The court (wrongly imo and in the opinion of many British) found that, as he had shot the burglars in the back at some distance, he exceeded the legal level of self defence allowed under UK law.

I would point out that, contrary to myth, there have been a tiny amount of such cases in the UK, and that several burglars and attackers in the UK have been legally killed, the last of note in Manchester 2012.

BTW, I am myself the victim of violent crime/burglary/assault in 2008, where I used violence in return. And got nothing but commendation from police and court. And was told by a police officer I could have legally used MORE force!.


39 posted on 08/27/2014 1:57:55 PM PDT by the scotsman (UK)
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To: Sparklite

Oh, the people seemed wonderful. I stopped somewhere this summer to fill up my motorcycle. The owner of the station said to me, “You aren’t from around here.”

I asked how he could tell. He looked at the other old black guy sitting there and laughed. He said, “well, the only time we see folks like you is when they are lost or something is on fire. And I don’t smell smoke”

They both laughed like hell.


40 posted on 08/27/2014 2:05:23 PM PDT by Vermont Lt (Ebola: Death is a lagging indicator.)
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