[Gaffer]

My county, 30,000 strong has 96% white, 1% black and 3% other. It also has 6000 on SNAP alone. This is US Census data and from Georgia SNAP data. In my experience I do not recall seeing a black person use an EBT card here, mostly just white people and maybe a few Hispanics.

What this tells me is that it is not contained to just one group. The government has accomplished a sea change in our basic population irrespective of race. Very very bad news.

[SkyPilot]

My county, 30,000 strong has 96% white, 1% black and 3% other. It also has 6000 on SNAP alone. This is US Census data and from Georgia SNAP data. In my experience I do not recall seeing a black person use an EBT card here, mostly just white people and maybe a few Hispanics. What this tells me is that it is not contained to just one group. The government has accomplished a sea change in our basic population irrespective of race. Very very bad news.

Yes, you nailed it there. That is why the Romney "47%" quote made a lot of sponges angry - because it was the Truth.

I also believe that due to the fact that your demographic county is 96% white, you will not see many African-Americans using SNAP simply because of mathmatics. I used to live in a very nice subdivision. I have since moved. The projects a few towns over was torn down and condemned. The state implemented Section 8 Housing in at least 3 apartment complexes in my town. Very soon, crime went ballistic. Car break ins and home invasions skyrocketed. Rapes. Car jackings. The whole nine yards.

The state would not even admit they implemented the Section 8. You would have thought it was a secret akin to the Manhattan Project.

I moved.

The entire town is now a racial fault line. I went shopping at the grocery store I used to frequent. I hardly recognized it, and this is just a few years later.

The crowd was rude, smelled, and pushy - and almost EVERYONE used the EBT card at checkout.