bfl
Blacks make up 13% of the overall population by the percentage is much higher in the Southern states. And the Southern states have something most other states do not: rural blacks.
Large parts of Mississippi, Arkansas, Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina have rural blacks were there simply are no jobs. While over the past century and a half many have moved to places where the jobs where: Chicago, Gary, Detroit, Pittsburgh, etc., the rest have stayed in the same place their slave ancestors were when the Civil War ended.
No offense to them, but those rich cotton lands didn’t have and still do not have much industry. Share-cropping went away 50 years ago or more with the advent of completely mechanized farming.
Most of these folks are on assistance of some kind. The largest percentage are in Mississippi, which is why Mississippi is the greatest so-called moocher state.
Social Security is FAR close to "theft" than it is to "largess"!!!
Maybe the people of the states with the most federal spending don’t wan them to waste all that money but have no control over what the Feds do.