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Gay Louisiana doctor says he’s leaving the state over its ‘discriminatory’ legislation
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There are lots of dystopian futures where the healthy and technologically advanced separated themselves from the unwashed, uneducated, and violent masses. Elysium is a popular film that uses this trope. We always assumed that the healthy and technologically advanced people created their utopia and pushed out the masses. In these fictional stories, I never considered the possibility that the masses would push out the healthy and technologically advanced people to their utopia and the masses were left to wallow in their own filth by their own choice.
California is definitely not an utopia
It's a closer to one than Louisiana, though.
None of the US can be classified as an utopia
Even so, the comparison is unfavorable to Louisiana, not California.
California looks like a mix of The Walking Dead and a Netflix show tho
Now do Louisiana.
Racist rednecks, gators and new Orleans
Really pulling your punches there.
Some fun facts about Louisiana:
Unemployment is higher than the national average and wages are lower than the national average.
Nineteen percent of the population lives below the poverty level, and that is second only to Mississippi.
Only around 20 percent of students perform at an acceptable level on standardized tests.
Louisiana has the highest murder rate in the nation at 12.4 per 100,000 people, far above No.2 Missouri at 9.8.
Louisiana is ranked 49th out of 50 states as far as job and economic opportunities.
We're not in the dystopian future yet I was describing. We're at possibly the middle point between what was, and what will be. The "what will be" would be when that utopia exists.
Won't be with all the drug problems California has
As someone who has lived all over the country, the drug problem in California is not worse than anywhere else. The worst I have seen was in the south and the Midwest. It's straight meth country all over the US.