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vtsnowedin
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Little John wrote:
vtsnowedin wrote:
Little John wrote:The correlation between socially dysfunctional levels of drug taking and alienating urban poverty is a mystery to you? Seriously?
Well alienating urban poverty isn't suspect here. Berlin VT, the site of the first three murders has a population of 2864 or a density of 78 per square mile. My home town has a population of 1250 for 31.2 per square mile.
The largest "city" in the state of Vermont has less then 40,000 people living in it and three towns have zero year round residents and are just a moose pasture.
And are the levels of poverty in both towns the same?
I don't know where they might keep figures that specific.
The poverty rate for Vermont as a whole is 11.8% and for the entire USA 15.4% . That's using the USA definition of poverty which many people living in third world countries would consider absurd.
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