Joe:
There’s a reason people born and raised in the south are all retards, and it goes beyond genetics. Their schools are horrible. They’re basically on-the-job training for fresh Northern education grads to get a couple years experience at shit money and move back north. I had friends from HS that went to southern schools, and friends in college that were from there. The first group learned stuff we learned in HS well into junior year. The second, even those that were honors students back home, ended up in remedial classes. We still get raped with medicaid, but with education, you get what you pay for.
Seriously broad-brush statement here. If you look at my example of the tax rates between my two houses, I don’t think that the marginally better education here can account for a 2000% tax differential.