Highlights From The Comments On The Central Valley
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The Central Valley, Quote, a Poverty Porn Article
Derek Rob writes, "Reading this article is how I imagine it feels to live in a, quote, less developed part of the world and read poverty porn articles from American media outlets" The author makes sweeping claims on the misery of the central valley based on a couple of newspaper articles and a few time series plots. By area, I have no doubt that the central valley is majority conservative. But since the author is already lumping the entire central valley under a single umbrella, I would be curious if most in quotes actually bears out in the distribution of political affiliations among central valleyites. If this doesn't reek of coastal elite naivety, I don't know what does.
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