Sunday, February 9, 2020

Greetings from Meade County, Kansas, where 0% of households have access to broadband


Source:  Kansas Department of Commerce (highlight added)

Not connected and no Netflix: ‘It’s frankly embarrassing’ in these Kansas towns.  (Kansas City Star, 2/8/2020)
In either case, the data seems fairly reliable for Meade County, where the state says 0% of households have access to broadband. 
In the county seat of Meade, residents have access to the internet through AT&T’s old landline telephone infrastructure. And City Administrator Dean Cordes said the massive company has no interest in installing fiber to provide faster service to the town of 1,565 people. 
In a word, AT&T’s service is slow, Cordes said. It gets even worse when people come home on weekday evenings after work and school. 
“If you wanted to watch a movie on Netflix, you can’t do it,” he said. “It just will not load.” 
Meade’s hospital, schools and city hall are all connected to fast fiber service. But the city administrator said it’s too expensive to extend that service to homes without some sort of funding assistance.


Source:  Wikipedia (Meade County, Meade)



% of population 25 and older with bachelor's degree:
  • 20.1% - Meade County
  • 32.9% - Kansas
  • 30.9% - U.S.
% of population 65 and older:
  • 19.3% - Meade County
  • 15.9% - Kansas
  • 16.0% - U.S.
% of population living in poverty:
  •   9.4% - Meade County
  • 12.0% - Kansas
  • 11.8% - U.S.

Very red -- voted Dem just twice; in 1916 and 1936 -- but not necessarily Trump's America.  Trump received a slightly smaller percentage of the vote than Romney did in 2016.

Source:  Wikipedia
3rd party votes: 27.7% in 1992, 9.2% in 1996, 6.2% in 2016
(George Wallace received 8.7% of the vote in 1968)

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