Here is the thin Vision Thing, Americans are generous people, the so called “rich” are the most generous of all Americans, “rich” America donates unmentioned Billions every year.
A fascinating study found that people in the South were far more generous then Northern people, for me the reasons are simple:
Abandon God’s Laws
Be taxed to death in the meanwhile
The thought of a omnipotent God is not popular in the NE at the moment, so rather then deal with “Love thy neighbor” folks in the NE have to deal with “property tax due by...”
I lived in Boston before I moved here to Dallas. I’ve never seen anyone in Boston offer chartible gifts. And though the people I know in Boston were relatively propserous (how can they not, especially when they needed to cover their high cost of living), I thought most of them were miserable and unhappy. But they seemed to be happy with their high taxes. These two things (the general unhappiness and the taxes) were some of the many reasons I left Boston.
Here in Dallas, I see people give through tithing and volunteer positions. And they are all doing well, which isn’t too hard to do because the cost of living here is relatively low. But, the people in Dallas that I know are far happier than the people I knew in Boston.