Y'know, I've always thought this. Why are we so obsessed with being in the city?
But the reality is that isolating yourself as a minority group generally doesnt lead to good things. Many of the states you listed have a lot of Native Americans, whom are the poorest race in the country.
Native Americans were displaced NOT by choice...They did not choose to "isolate" themselves.
Also..."poor" is a concept that was brought by Europeans...Native Americans were here for hundreds of years living fine before the 1400s (the first known European interaction)
If we did wealth gathering/sharing...we could buy up a ton of land, cultivate it, and turn it into what we needed to. If we decided as a collective to gather our resources and start buying government land in large amounts, it would be a much different outcome than Native American reservations.
Imagine some billionaire (let's just use Oprah for argument's sake) builds a large "hotel" in the middle of nowhere for thousands of residents. We could then pay her back to live there while we begin cultivating land nearby a large city...50 miles outside of Boise Idaho let's say. Close enough to get supplies, far enough to "start" a settlement.
Over time, Oprah builds a few of these. Sure in the beginning the living conditions wouldn't be great, but they would be manageable. In a few generations we have our own townships, built by us from nothing, funded by us, inhabited by us. Anyone who moves in needs to be vetted by a town vote. We start our own police stations and fire stations etc. Eventually we would have our pockets of the country where we could live peacefully started from scratch.
But you know they wouldn't let us have that
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