Who Gets Food Stamps? White People, Mostly

[Lakhota]

WASHINGTON -- Gene Alday, a Republican member of the Mississippi state legislature, apologized last week for telling a reporter that all the African-Americans in his hometown of Walls, Mississippi, are unemployed and on food stamps.

"I come from a town where all the blacks are getting food stamps and what I call 'welfare crazy checks,'" Alday said to a reporter for The Clarion-Ledger, a Mississippi newspaper, earlier this month. "They don't work."

Nationally, most of the people who receive benefits from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program are white. According to 2013 data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which administers the program, 40.2 percent of SNAP recipients are white, 25.7 percent are black, 10.3 percent are Hispanic, 2.1 percent are Asian and 1.2 percent are Native American.

More: Who Gets Food Stamps? White People, Mostly

Probably mostly in red states.

 

[Moonglow]

There are no such animal called Food Stamps....

 

[Stephanie]

Here we go again

what is the breakup of the population of white, blacks, Hispanics, etc etc IN THIS COUNTRY

you frikken racist haters.

 

[Lakhota]

 

[martybegan]

The chart is worthless because it doesn't reference what they considering "giving" and "getting".

 

[Lakhota]

You can always depend on whitey to be sucking on a government tit.

 

[Stephanie]

I'm ashamed to call you my fellow countryman or woman

 

[Misty]

You can always depend on whitey to be sucking on a government tit.

Your racism is disgusting.

 

[JoeMoma]

White (Non-Hispanic) people make up about 62.6% of the population. Blacks make up about 13.2% of the population.

QuickFacts

 

[SassyIrishLass]

Percentages flummox them

 

[iamwhatiseem]

 

[TheOldSchool]

Percentages flummox them

Except when it comes to red states having the highest rates of welfare and food stamp participation. Conservatives need to stop leeching off of blue states.

 

[LeftofLeft]

WASHINGTON -- Gene Alday, a Republican member of the Mississippi state legislature, apologized last week for telling a reporter that all the African-Americans in his hometown of Walls, Mississippi, are unemployed and on food stamps.

"I come from a town where all the blacks are getting food stamps and what I call 'welfare crazy checks,'" Alday said to a reporter for The Clarion-Ledger, a Mississippi newspaper, earlier this month. "They don't work."

Nationally, most of the people who receive benefits from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program are white. According to 2013 data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which administers the program, 40.2 percent of SNAP recipients are white, 25.7 percent are black, 10.3 percent are Hispanic, 2.1 percent are Asian and 1.2 percent are Native American.

More: Who Gets Food Stamps? White People, Mostly

Probably mostly in red states.

A large number of Americans are on Food Stamps.

 

[SassyIrishLass]

Percentages flummox them

Except when it comes to red states having the highest rates of welfare and food stamp participation. Conservatives need to stop leeching off of blue states.

That myth is just that, a myth

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[Mac1958]

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Wow, I didn't know that a higher percentage of whites are on food stamps than blacks.

You learn something new every day here.

Just another example of how the American Left hurts blacks by spinning and deflecting for them.

American Blacks deserve much better than this.

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[MaxGrit]

Percentages flummox them

Except when it comes to red states having the highest rates of welfare and food stamp participation. Conservatives need to stop leeching off of blue states.

That myth is just that, a myth

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Libtards can not learn math.

 

[martybegan]

Percentages flummox them

Except when it comes to red states having the highest rates of welfare and food stamp participation. Conservatives need to stop leeching off of blue states.

It doesn't seem as clear cut as you make it out to be. Also this data doesn't divide it between urban areas in the states (which skew prog/dem) and rural which skew lib/con/repub.

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[80zephyr]

If a leftie ever learns math, I think I'll shit myself. Now, follow along. There are 46.2 million Americans on food stamps. If the OP is correct, that means that about 8% of white America receives food stamps. Of the 39.7 million blacks in this country, 11.9 million receive food stamps, or about 30%.

Which is higher? 8% or 30%

So tell me, who uses food stamps again?

Mark

 

[BluesLegend]

It seems African American's are not doing so well on the Democratic party plantation.

White 72% of the population consuming only 40% of SNAP
Hispanics 16% of the population consuming only 10% of SNAP
African Americans 12% of the population consuming wow 25% of SNAP

 

[Flash]

Percentages flummox them

Except when it comes to red states having the highest rates of welfare and food stamp participation. Conservatives need to stop leeching off of blue states.

That myth is just that, a myth

Articles The Myth of Red State Welfare

Exploding the left s red state myths Rare

You forget that most of the welfare in the red states is concentrated in big city Democrat strongholds like Atlanta, Houston, Dallas Memphis, Miami etc.

Math is not the friend of the Moon Bats.