>>44533633The main culprit remains the degenerate culture brought over from the northern UK. Welfare merely sustains it artificially.
It enables the worst cultural tendencies leftover from the southern settlers of the 1700s: laziness and sexual promiscuity (while doing nothing for the violent aspects of those cultures). Moreover, those who have best succeeded in the American south have been self-sufficient and self-sacrificing foreigners to the region (i.e. Caribbeans, Germans, Italians or those with a "New England" culture). Statistically speaking, when it comes to the welfare system's damage to society, you can look no further than crime and family household dynamics among specific cultural groups (blacks are the most telling) and what happened to the numbers when the United States transitioned from the 1950s into the 60s. If you'd like more information, you could read or listen to Thomas Sowell's book: Black Rednecks and White Liberals. It's very enlightening with regards to the historical behavior patterns and cultural tendencies of certain regions and populations within the United States.
