The majority of poverty is located in the South including the educational, political, and health problems in the South. It’s said poverty had started in the late 1950s or earlier in the South in a few states like Louisiana, Mississippi, some parts of Alabama, and Georgia. The health care in the South is among the worst in the United States ranking at the bottom from 45-50 out of all states. After the Civil War, the South was isolated from the rest of America. “Not quite a nation within a nation, but the next thing to it,” W.J. Cash said in his book The Mind of the South. Historically, child poverty was high in the 1990s specifically in the South with the poverty rate for children under the age of 18 being 27% compared to 17% for the rest of