That dark area in South Dakota is the Pine Ridge reservation, the poorest single community in the United States. It’s absolutely disgusting how we have not only allowed people to live, but actively caused them to live in such abject poverty. If I dropped you in the middle of that reservation with no context you’d think you’d landed in a 3rd world country.
Unemployment on the reservation hovers between 80% and 85%, and 49% of the population live below the federal poverty level. Many of the families have no electricity, telephone, running water, or sewage systems; and many use wood stoves to heat their homes, depleting limited wood resources.
Then again, why don’t they just pull themselves up by the moccasin straps? Look at them. I bet some of them even have refrigerators! /s
Interesting. Hey, Jamie, overlay a map of indigenous populations…
(Correlates less the further east and south you get, though)
That dark area in South Dakota is the Pine Ridge reservation, the poorest single community in the United States. It’s absolutely disgusting how we have not only allowed people to live, but actively caused them to live in such abject poverty. If I dropped you in the middle of that reservation with no context you’d think you’d landed in a 3rd world country.
Jesus
Then again, why don’t they just pull themselves up by the moccasin straps? Look at them. I bet some of them even have refrigerators! /s