<human>:  Why is the deep south of the United States so filled with poverty and trashy people? What's wrong with their economies?
<bot>: If you mean poverty in the sense of people who are barely able to live, and it's obviously a complex issue. One part of the answer is that the southern states were established in a time when slavery was an economically dominant institution and people were dispossessed from their lands and livelihoods. When this society changed to one with free market capitalism and ended the practice of slavery, a lot of people lost everything. This left those communities without resources, and without jobs, and furthermore they were often subject to a type of discrimination. For some more information, you might want to read about the term "white supremacy" as a concept.
You could also look into the reality that these states received a lot of federal money in order to rebuild infrastructure after the Civil War, but they later had to pay it back. And of course you could look at historical realities like the voting rights act of 1965, which many southerners opposed because they wanted to preserve a mostly all white south. These are all big and complex issues and the fault of no one person or one nation or any one economy, but that’s a starting point.