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To a point, I have to agree, however, there are redneck Taliban types under rocks wherever you tread, but in varying degrees, depending on the secular educational opportunities afforded that particular nation.

The American South has a third-world agrarian based society, long held in place by it's ruling elite-- the large land owners (former plantation owners), which is the essential model of government desired by the rest of America's economic elite.

The features of this model include having only the most basic public education system allowed by law, a retrograde tax system, a weak middle class, and a deeply entrenched socio-economic and educational disparity between the wealthy and the dirt-poor. It's the exact definition of Oligarchy and almost feudal in it's structure.

Other prime examples of this class structure are found in Latin America, Asia, and Africa, but particularly Mexico, where over 90% of the national infrastructure is owned by twelve families. Through this control, they can have the government by the short & curlies, in that with the flick of a pen or switch, can cripple the national economy and so force any wage or working condition, tariff or trade decision, or subsidy they so desire.

Where you see the Taliban types are usually in these countries where the ruling elite is so distanced from the populace that these local laws don't apply to them because of their power. Such as in Saudi Arabia where the wealthy send their children abroad to the world's best colleges and academies, while Achmed Q. Camelfukker, (or alternately, Billy Lee Wifebeater) is lucky to be taught "righty-tighty, lefty-loosey," and so grows up to be a reactionary fukwit that believes anything they're told, especially if it comes in a handsome, leather bound book with gold leaf lettering on the cover, or from the nearest bunny-eared idiotbox, blaring the mantras of the elite's power structure such as FOX or Al-Jazeera.