Deep South: Four Seasons on Back Roads

Other travelers might not have noticed it, but Paul Theroux did: Poverty in the deep South here in the USA is reminiscent of poverty in Africa. Sadly, Theroux saw not only economic poverty, but also a poverty of literacy and a poverty of real equality.

Over and over, Theroux asked people in the poorest areas of the south whether any of the American foundations who so often send aid to Africa ever offered help here in the US and over and over the respondents told him no.

It was a troubling read for me, here in a part of the US often grouped with the South.