Thomas Sowell: One of the things that I found interesting was the fact that there are various counties in the United States which are among the poorest counties in the country. And six of those counties have a population that ranges from 90% white to 100% white.
Peter Robinson: Appalachian counties, Kentucky and Ohio as I recall.
Thomas Sowell: Yeah, but mainly it's the hillbilly communities. And of course there's that great book that was written, "The Hillbilly Elegy". It was on the bestseller list for more than a year consecutively.
Peter Robinson: JD Vance now Senator Vance.
Thomas Sowell: Yes, and there, these are people who have faced zero racism.
Peter Robinson: They are white after all.Thomas Sowell: And they are white and zero racism, and also back in the '30s when they did IQ studies, their IQs were not only at the same level as those of blacks, they had the same pattern, namely that the young people whether they were black or hillbilly would have an IQ very close to the national average at age six, but by the time they were teenagers, it just kept going down and down and down 'cause it's relative to the other people of that age group. And they simply were falling behind.
So it was clearly not biological, it was social. But despite that, these hillbilly counties had incomes that were not only lower than the national average, they were lower than the average of black incomes for a period of half a century. It may have been longer than that because I only went through half a century. But in every study that was done over that half century, they scored lower, their family incomes were lower than the family incomes of blacks. So obviously, there must be other things that cause people to be poor other than racism.
Peter Robinson:
All right, people in low-income American hillbilly counties already face zero racism because they're virtually all white.
Thomas Sowell: Yes.Peter Robinson: Yet, they have lower incomes than blacks, just as you were saying. In other words,
some behavior patterns seem to pay off
. Now, this book is dedicated to fallacies, to showing errors in premises and errors in analysis. It's not dedicated to an alternative explanation. Nevertheless, you've got this argument lurking in here that it's the way people live, it's the way cultural patterns-
Thomas Sowell: Yes.
Peter Robinson: So what are the patterns that pay off?
Thomas Sowell: Well, oh my heavens, that's a much larger book than this.
https://www.hoover.org/research/consequences-matter-thomas-sowell-social-justice...So, stay Bbwianesquely simplistic, bozos, and j must help 'wacism'.
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