It's Brownsville-RGV. Local government there is some of the worst nationally. The FBI has been running a massive anti-corruption operation there for over a decade now that has found corruption from the Mayor to the Counth DA all the way to one of their Congressmen [0][1][2].
It's sad because the people there are hardworking, but because a large portion of the RGV's population is undocumented or an immigrant and is littered with fiefdoms and multi-generational political families, it has remained very poor despite having a decent port and oil economy
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There are parts of the US which would also forbid women from showing their ankles if they thought they could get away with it.
You've probably heard this before, but:
The USA is not a singular nation from the inside. There's a single foreign policy and a single military system and a single treaty negotiator, but on the inside it's 51+ jurisdictions, one of which isn't even based on the same underlying jurisprudence as the others ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_Louisiana ).
It's sad because the people there are hardworking, but because a large portion of the RGV's population is undocumented or an immigrant and is littered with fiefdoms and multi-generational political families, it has remained very poor despite having a decent port and oil economy
[0] https://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/South-Texas-a...
[1] https://www.npr.org/2015/07/06/413463836/corruption-on-the-b...
[2] https://www.politico.com/news/2022/02/22/henry-cuellar-king-...