Proximity to Canada Engenders Trust
A recent Gallup Poll, Utah, South Dakota Best Places in U.S. to Lose Your Wallet, asked residents of different states whether they would expect a neighbor who found a wallet or purse that contained $200 to return it. California ranked third from the bottom on this poll, ahead only of Nevada and Mississippi. (Via The Inductivist.)
That ethnic homogeneity engenders trust, and that the secret of the success of the Anglo world lies in their superior quantity of social trust, have become fairly commonplace ideas.
The northern Midwest and the Northwest are filled with ethnic Germans and Scandinavians; the South, with blacks and Scotch-Irish; California, with Hispanics and Scotch-Irish. (The latter is an exaggerated attempt at humor, but quite a few Scotch-Irish did make it to California.)
Bottom Line
Seventy percent of Americans nationwide express trust in their neighbors, as measured by a question about whether a lost wallet (or purse) would be returned, but trust in one’s neighbors varies greatly across regions. A number of Western and Midwestern states, along with other states with smaller populations, top the list of high-trust places, whereas Southern and highly populated states are more prevalent on the low-trust list. People living in high-trust states have higher overall well-being, possibly due to greater access to the resources and services needed to lead an optimal life.
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Proximity to Canada Engenders Trust
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I hope that this wallet return is the only extent of being close to Canada. Canadians are SUBJECTS of the STATE and that state increasingly is exerting it’s police state powers over Canadians. From free speech to weapons all while favoring immigration policies that would have Canada resemble the THE SOUTH the Canadian Government expects servitude and compliance or imprisonment and fines come hither. No Bill of Rights, no tripwire for The People to rise up and dissolve a tyranny.
That is not to say that here in the United States that The People are anymore than puppets for various powers that be to manipulate and use but at least for now we have some room to lift our heads from the constant grazing and vote or voice objections. So far.