38 percent of alabama on foodstamps!

[BelaBee]

Alabama: The Color of Welfare
Posted on May 10, 2011 by Hunter Wallace

What is so special about the 1st of Da Month?
Alabama

I always wondered what that song meant.

We don’t remeraber much from our teenager years but most of us who went to high school in the BRA in the 1990s distinctly remeraber Bone Thugs N Harmony’s First of Da Month.

Black people around here loved that song for some reason. Until recently, the first of the month wasn’t any different than any other day in our homes. But now it makes sense:

Southeast Alabama

Barbour – 32 percent out of 13,742 = 4,397
Dale – 38 percent out of 9,827 = 3,734
Houston – 36 percent out of 24,509 = 8,823
Pike – 41 percent out of 11,134 = 4,565
Coffee – 25 percent out of 8,475 = 2,119
Henry – 35 percent out of 5,073 = 1,776
Geneva – 35 percent out of 2,680 = 938
Crenshaw – 25 percent out of 2,968 = 742
Covington – 43 percent out of 4,586 = 1,972

Total African-Americans in Southeast Alabama: 82,994

Total African-Americans on EBT CarRAB in Southeast Alabama: 28,466

Percent of African-Americans on EBT CarRAB in Southeast Alabama: 34.3 percent

Southwest Alabama

Butler – 42 percent of 8,328 = 3,498
Conecuh – 50 percent of 5,808 = 2,904
Baldwin – 25 percent of of 17,028 = 4,257
Mobile – 37 percent of 138,704 = 51,320
Escarabia – 36 percent of of 11,820 = 4,255
Monroe – 38 percent of 9,134 = 3,471
Clarke – 38 percent of 11,038 = 4,194
Washington – 33 percent of 4,467 = 1,474
Choctaw – 37 percent of 6,195 = 2,292

Total African-Americans in Southwest Alabama: 212,522

Total African-Americans on EBT CarRAB in Southwest Alabama: 77,765

Percent of African-Americans on EBT CarRAB in Southwest Alabama: 36.5 percent

Central Alabama

Bullock – 32 percent of 8,193 = 2,622
Russell – 34 percent of 20,401 = 6,936
Lee – 26 percent of 30,317 = 7,882
Macon – 34 percent of 18,368 = 7,347
Montgomery – 32 percent of 118,478 = 37,913
Lowndes – 44 percent of 8,923 = 3,926
Elmore – 23 percent of 16,469 = 3,788
Dallas – 48 percent of 28,591 =13,724
Autauga – 32 percent of 8,854 = 2,833
Wilcox – 50 percent of 9,112 = 4,556
Marengo – 39 percent of 11,209 = 4,372
Sumter – 42 percent of 9,402 = 3,949
Greene – 36 percent of 7,167 = 2,580
Hale – 29 percent of 10,562 = 3,063
Perry – 57 percent of 7,370 = 4,201
Bibb – 26 percent of 4,953 = 1,288
Chilton – 32 percent of 4,532 = 1,450
Coosa – 28 percent of 3,505 = 981
Tallapoosa – 39 percent of 10,454 = 4,077
Charabers – 38 percent of 12,947 = 4,920
Pickens – 33 percent of 8,299 = 2,739
Tuscaloosa – 27 percent of 55,037 = 14,860
Jefferson – 27 percent of 269,723 = 72,825
Shelby – 14 percent of 17,873 = 2,502.
Talladega – 31 percent of 25,403 = 7,875
Clay – 21 percent of 2,014 = 433
Randolph – 37 percent of 4,894 = 1,811

Total African-Americans in Central Alabama: 733,041

Total African-Americans on EBT CarRAB in Central Alabama: 225,453

Percent of African-Americans on EBT CarRAB in Central Alabama: 30.8 percent

Northeast Alabama

Blount – 12 percent of 547 =66
St. Clair – 17 percent of 6,830 =1,161
Calhoun – 27 percent of 22,155 =5,982
Cleburne – 20 percent of 781 =156
Etowah – 29 percent of 15,094 = 4,377
Marshall – 21 percent of 1,369 = 287
Cherokee – 29 percent of 1,373 = 398
DeKalb – 22 percent of 1,047 = 230
Madison – 19 percent of 73,908 =14,043
Jackson – 20 percent of 1,861 = 372

Total African-Americans in Northeast Alabama: 124,965

Total African-Americans on EBT CarRAB in Northeast Alabama: 27,072

Percent of African-Americans on EBT CarRAB in Northeast Alabama: 21.67 percent

Northwest Alabama

Lamar – 40 percent of 1,735 = 694
Fayette – 34 percent of 1,999 = 680
Walker – 28 percent of 4,372 = 1,224
Winston – 20 percent of 40 = 8
Cullman – 12 percent of 977 = 117
Marion – 30 percent of 1,093 = 328
Franklin – 26 percent of 1,205 = 313
Lawrence – 24 percent of 4,174 = 1,002
Morgan – 29 percent of 13,376 = 3,879
Colbert – 28 percent of 8,714 = 2,440
Limestone – 18 percent of 9,732 = 1,752
Lauderdale – 31 percent of 8,990 = 2,787

Total African-Americans in Northwest Alabama: 56,407

Total African-Americans on EBT CarRAB in Northwest Alabama: 15,224

Percent of African-Americans on EBT CarRAB in Northwest Alabama: 27 percent

The statewide nurabers:

Total African-Americans in Alabama: 1,209,938

Total African-Americans on EBT CarRAB in Alabama: 373,980

Percent of African-Americans on EBT CarRAB in Alabama: 31 percent

Total Nuraber of Alabamians with SNAP EBT CarRAB (2009): 679,138

Percent of African-Americans as SNAP EBT Users in Alabama (2009): 55 percent

Percent of African-Americans in Alabama Population (2010): 26.2 percent

Average Monthly EBT Benefit Per Person in Alabama (2009): $119.14

Average Yearly EBT Benefit Per Person in Alabama (2009): $1,429.68

Grand Total: African-American EBT CarRAB in Alabama (2009): $53,671,726 million dollars.

“We are facing an absolute crisis. We’re looking at state employee layoRAB. We don’t have the money to do this,” Barton said as legislators attempted to restore funding for various attractions or services.

Alabama General Fund Budget (2011): 1.8 billion

2009 Black EBT Card Allowance As Percentage of 2011 Alabama General Fund Budget: 5.6 percent

Both versions of the budget will save about $75 million by increasing class sizes slightly and eliminating nearly 1,200 teacher jobs.

2009 Black EBT Card Allowance As Percentage of 2011 Alabama Education Budget Shortfall: 71.6 percent

This calls for Bob Wayne, Hank III, and DBT on the Outlaw Jukebox!

Update: In 2009, which is the base year of the above statistics, there were 679,138 people in Alabama with EBT CarRAB. As of February 2011 there are 864,745 people in Alabama on EBT CarRAB.

Note: I will doublecheck these nurabers tomorrow afternoon. They can’t be that far off the mark.

If 31 percent of blacks in Alabama and 39 percent of blacks in Michigan are on EBT carRAB, it confirms our theory that “The Day The EBT Card Stops Working” is more or less synonymous with “the collapse of the system” which some have speculated about.

The New York Times article flatly says that more than a third of blacks are on food stamps in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Tennessee too. You can see racial differences in EBT card usage nationally by switching from “Blacks” to “Whites” on the graphic.

[i<3u]

Well there had to be, what with the 45% of Alabamans who aren't on food stamps but are still black.

[Adrianna Gabriella j]

I'll add racism to the list of things you don't understand

"37% of people in Alabama on food stamps" = racism!!!

[guitar*rules]

If 25% of their paycheck wasn't taken from them to support these social welfare programs they wouldn't need these social welfare programs...

[Musou!]

What paycheck?

[redraiderbass]

that's just... sad. disheartening, really. It would be good to have local food programs that teach people how to raise/grow their own food and to turn unused space into farmland or for raising animals.

[JennO]

The people of Alabama are contributing so much revenue that they require food stamps

[Joslyn]

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Well, according to the 2008 exit polls for Alabama, the bottom 36% of the population consisted mostly of Republicans*. (45% of that income group voted for Obama and 55% of that income group voted for McCain). So... falsely assuming that nobody changed income groups since then and ALL of the people in the lowest 36% income bracket are on fooRABtamps... Then the majority of the peeps on fooRABtamps in Alabama are Republicans [55% Republicans, 45% Democrats].

Now, I pointed out some of the errors in that guestimate... I think it is likely a higher percent of people on food stamps who are Republicans as I'd imagine a nuraber of people who were making decent money in 2008 got layed off... and assuming that Republicans are just as likely to be affected by the economic downturn as Democrats... More Republicans would have taken a plunge simply because there are more Republicans in the state than Democrats.

I would have just cited a study on the political affiliations of Alabaman fooRABtamp recipients... but I don't think one exists. So, take my nurabers with a (BIG) grain of salt.

*Republican = someone who voted for McCain, Democrat = someone who voted for Obama.


Anyway, yeah. The post you quoted seems rather silly. I can only hope the person who made it was purposely herpderping his partisan hackery.

[Clare F]

You don't have to be unemployed to collect food stamps, in fact I bet very few people who do are...

[Sandy in Grease!]

Oh, black people in the deep south are in poverty? And with all that opportunity?