re: Louisiana is the poorest state in the country

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He was responding to the OP who stated that Louisiana was the “poorest state”.

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I am not sure what the state budget having a surplus has to do with being poor relative to other states.

Slamming Deep South states for being poor is just code for the obvious effects of slavery followed by generations of overt racism. Plenty of immigrants have come down South and done just fine in these "dirt poor" states because they aren't digging out from Jim Crow. Granted, Louisiana is famously corrupt or else it'd be swimming in a lot more money from resources like Texas.