Yes, we do. And in every state where it is taking hold you have terrible education, rampant crime, and suffering by the middle class.
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The middle class has been shrinking for 35 years because manufacturing has gone abroad. That's why you have more crime. Education is what you make it. That's is sometimes driven by culture. Note that religious and political extremists often reject science and education. Reactionaries reject science and modernity.