Food stamps & housing assistance were not yet available. Sometimes excess govt cheese was passed out in the schools.Farfromgeneva wrote: ↑Sun Oct 15, 2023 9:00 pmHe’s a bootstraps guy. Ask about the food stamps and assistance his family needed to survive his childhood.Typical Lax Dad wrote: ↑Sun Oct 15, 2023 8:52 pmY’all were poor?old salt wrote: ↑Sun Oct 15, 2023 8:41 pm...as expected. FFG cites some overly broad stats for the entire county & you seize upon them to question the veracity of my description of my hometown.MDlaxfan76 wrote: ↑Sun Oct 15, 2023 2:11 pmcertainly doesn't sound like a poor rural town...Farfromgeneva wrote: ↑Sun Oct 15, 2023 7:20 am Half way across the country and 26 students.
https://elementaryschools.org/directory ... edar-hill/
What BS. I communicate with Russians so clearly I understand everything about their country.
But the county being 90% white does explain some things.
Delusions are strong. Tortured is another projection. Like all of his reality.
It’s also a wealthy county-median HHI was $71k and low cost living vs $90k in New York County. Totally clueless and out to lunch.
https://www.missouri-demographics.com/j ... %20poverty.
Here's some more precise stats for my unincorporated home town.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cedar_Hill,_Missouri
The median income for a household in the CDP was $35,481, and the median income for a family was $43,214. Males had a median income of $40,160 versus $21,074 for females. The per capita income for the CDP was $15,599. About 5.7% of families and 12.9% of the population were below the poverty line, including 6.1% of those under age 18 and 8.8% of those age 65 or over.
JeffCo is bounded on the N by metro STL county & on the E by the MS River. The N end is populated by more relatively affluent commuters & the E end by older established & more developed River & RR towns. My home town is near the more rural W edge of the county.
When I grew up there, it was mainly a rural farm town & a distant Xurb of StL connected by a windy 2 lane Hwy.
After I left, the Hwy was gradually upgraded to 4 lanes & more blue collar commuters were attracted by low property taxes & no residential zoning. e.g. : a mobile home park now abuts the parking lot of our family's grocery market, now operated by my brother (w/ my sister doing the bookkeeping). They are integral members of the community. I speak with them daily.
https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/ ... 0at%20home.
Didn’t Emmett Till get his at a grocery store in 1955 or around then?
We were not rich. I was the only immediate family college grad & I had to hustle for a NROTC scholarship (which led to a competitive USNA appt) after my college fund was vaporized when our local crooked bank mgr invited my dad onto the b.o.d., then embezzeled funds, requiring 2 directors to bail out the bank to keep the doors open. Thus my high regard for your esteemed professions.