Federal Government spends most on Louisiana, Mississippi, Alaska

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http://www.startribune.com/nation/18047084.html

The federal government spend nearly 3 times as much on those three states per capita than they spent on the three states receiving the least:  Nevada, Utah, and Minnesota.

I wouldn't care about this (and I really think it is probably better, as MS and LA need the investment), except for the fact that they support politicians that go on and on about tax cuts and fiscal responsibility but they're squealing piggy all the way home with a wad of cash...

If you're going to have that attitude, then you deserve the response:  Put up or shut up.  We could use the money too!

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Damn anti-Mississippi bigotry is ubiquitous.

Right, Mississippi is the only state that gets made fun of.  Nobody ever cracks a Texas joke or a South Dakota joke.

I've never in my life heard a South Dakota joke, and the occasional Texas joke is not nearly as common as the Mississippi joke.

No, it's just that New Orleans was far and away the largest city affected. You should be able to see through this, Harry.

Sure, but Mississippi never gets any coverage.  Never mind that towns on the coast were GONE after the storm...completely and utterly destroyed.  People are still living in trailers on the coast.  Compared to the Mississippi Gulf Coast, New Orleans had it easy by just getting flooded.

Lol. There's deluded, there's inane, and then there's this statement. (Doesn't of course change the fact that Mississippi got it very bad too, and that the main impact of the hurricane itself was worse there than in Louisiana.)

It's true.  Mississippi got hit much worse, and is still suffering much moreso, and no one does or ever did care.

The media won't cover devastation that doesn't affect all that many people.  New Orleans is a metro over well over 1 million people and nearly the entire city was under water and over 1000 people died as a result of human neglect.

Where was the news coverage last summer when some towns in southeastern Minnesota received 16" of rain in 24 hours resulting in devastating flash floods that nearly destroyed a few small towns?

If 16" of rain had fallen in Minneapolis in 24 hours, you can bet there'd have been a lot more coverage.