This goes out with a h/t tp DocH (Official Right-Wing Extremist Veteran Seal Of Approval). While I have heard this stat many times before. DocH put it well and got me to find the format I wanted, from a commentator at Sweetness & Light:
City, State, % of People Below the Poverty Level, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, 2006 American Community Survey, released August, 2007 (250K+ population)
TEN POOREST CITIES
City, State, % of People Below the Poverty Level
- Detroit , MI 32.5%
- Buffalo , NY 29..9%
- Cincinnati , OH 27.8%
- Cleveland , OH 27.0%
- Miami , FL 26.9%
- St. Louis , MO 26.8%
- El Paso , TX 26.4%
- Milwaukee , WI 26.2%
- Philadelphia , PA 25.1%
- Newark , NJ 24.2%
U.S. Census Bureau, 2006 American Community Survey, August 2007
What do the top ten cities (over 250,000) with the highest poverty rate all have in common?
- Detroit, MI (1st on the poverty rate list) hasn’t elected a Republican mayor since 1961.
- Buffalo , NY (2nd) hasn’t elected a Republican mayor since 1954.
- Cincinnati , OH (3rd) hasn’t elected a Republican mayor since 1984.
- Cleveland , OH (4th) hasn’t elected a Republican mayor since 1989.
- Miami , FL (5th) has never had a Republican mayor.
- St. Louis , MO (6th) hasn’t elected a Republican mayor since 1949.
- El Paso , TX (7th) has never had a Republican mayor.
- Milwaukee , WI (8th) hasn’t elected a Republican mayor since 1908.
- Philadelphia , PA (9th) hasn’t elected a Republican mayor since 1952.
- Newark , NJ (10th) hasn’t elected a Republican mayor since 1907.
Einstein said, ‘The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.’
It is the poor who habitually elect Democrats,
While teacher’s union pensions swell like pirate booty chests, kids have to bring toilet paper to school. Our property tax money used to buy restroom supplies, now it funds go-nothing union teachers.
I was born and raised in Detroit and know first hand the poverty there (and the racism).