After the dissolution of the tribal government of the Cherokee Nation in the 1900s and the death of William Charles Rogers in 1917, the Federal government began to appoint chiefs to the Cherokee Nation in 1919.
At the same time, the share of the population in the nationâs urban areas increased from 70% to 81% over that 50-year period. And much of the South still struggles with poverty. Of the 16 Southern states, only Maryland and Delaware had a poverty rate below the national average in 1960. Among the 14 Southern states with poverty rates higher than the U.S. average that year, only Virginiaâs had dropped below the national mark by 2010. Over the past 50 years, the poor have increasingly lived in the 20 most populous counties.
Overall, people living in the nationâs least obese states tend to be wealthier. In Hawaii, 19 percent of residents are obese, and only 10.8 percent of folks live in poverty. And in Colorado, the second-slimmest state with 20.3 percent people classified as obese, 13 percent of residents live in poverty. The correlation isnât always clear-cut, however. The outlier in the most obese states is Iowa. Its poverty rate of 12.7 percent is below the national average. Meanwhile, Californiaâs obesity rate is relatively low when compared with Mississippiâs, but its 16.8 percent poverty rate is above the national average.