I don’t want to over-generalize, particularly since I’ve never even been to most of these places. To be honest though, the places I HAVE been to? Holy fuck, man... like I’m not trying to sound snobby, but it SUCKS there. I’m probably spoiled from being from a major metropolitan area, but I mean, there is just NOTHING going on there. The towns seem to have a Walmart, a McDonald’s, a Taco Bell/KFC, a dollar store, some gas stations and convenience stores, and not a fuck of a lot else. Everybody was looking either obese or malnourished, like the “fat American” stereotype was everywhere I looked. These people are struggling, and many of them have no education and no skills, so low-paying labor is all they can ever hope for. So I think to these people, they bite hook, line, and sinker on any candidate promising “jobs.” Jobs, jobs, jobs... these people don’t have “careers”, they get “jobs.” I think that’s why so much of the enlisted military hail from places like that too, like it’s your only way out of there. And I think that’s part of why religion has such a stronghold there too, these are people desperately looking for some sort of hope. Like I remember driving through semi-rural Texas and just being like “jesus... this place fucking blows, I’d legitimately kill myself if I lived here, I’d feel so hopeless.” Like it’s just a depressed area. We have plenty of shitty spots in New England too, but some of these southern/midwestern places seem like practically a third-world country, at least by my standards. Like if you’re sitting there with your fingers crossed that Amazon will open a warehouse in your town so you can find work even if it’s hourly and pays like shit... I just feel bad for you, honestly, like I wish I could help.
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I’d imagine there is some degree of path dependency.
The coastal bits of the USA have historically had more economic development and often offer better educational and employment opportunities. If this holds over time, lots of people in the states in the middle would move to those states because of those push factors. That inherently makes those states less capable of having competing economic development, which also makes it less attractive for future generations.
That said, this is mostly just me eyeballing stuff and I could be entirely wrong as well
Because they are mostly rural states with less resources and have citizens in those states pay less tax.
A question you should ask is why are people in rich democrat states like California and in democrat run cities fleeing like refugees to these poorer conservative states?
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And here is where we see the liberal American in his natural habitat. He believes that people who earn less money than him are somehow inferior to him. Needless to say, he would die within a week if people who earn less than him prop up his lifestyle. And yet, he votes Democrat because he “cares about the poor”
Having the education of 18th century don't help and the fact most money will just go to religion. Also they want to live like there from 18th but without any slaves to help that turns out it's not making much progress to finical gain. Since that's only really why it prospered back then to be a Conservative.
Because they promote a culture of science denial, anti-education, and oppression, causing most people to not want to live there and those that remain to be ill equipped to create or draw in business that provide revenue.
You are nothing but a fun maker. Instead of helping other, you want to mock and bully others. DO that to the wrong person and they'd hurt you or worst. Some people don't tolerate that.
It is pretty shameful you see your opponent as your enemy. You are supposed to love others.You mean the ‘1%’ that Bernie complains about isn’t comprised of conservatives? Hmmm
*sips tea* I wonder why
You know you’re dissing your own country right? Lol. United or not?
Yeah, it's too bad they aren't utopian like New York and California.
I think it may be more correlation than causation, but if it is directly influencing each other i would love to know why! Smart people, do your thing! :D
Aren't those red states mainly rural agriculture-based? I mean Illinoise is broke and you have that in blue.
Depends.
1. look at racial demographics as well.
2. take into account cost of living.25% of welfare recipients live in California
One quarter of welfare recipients live in CA
The majority of welfare recipients are democrat voters from large citiesand why do they onlike socialist presidents (trump), when it benefits them (pandemic, stimulus handouts)
Well, they’re not only the poorest but also the least educated. 🤷♂️
Where I live is awesome same pricing better housing :) south ain’t that bad
Conservative, that's why. It's the barrier.
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