It’s a Fact: Republican Run Red States Have America’s Highest Poverty Rates

@SatanBurger All I know is that my right wing Catholic side of my family share more values of the Taliban than I do.

@SatanBurger Sure, but all religious Conservatives want the same thing. They just use different religions to justify their far-right beliefs. For Righties in Iran and Saudi Arabia, it's Islam. Here in America, it's Protestantism. In the growing fascist movements in Italy, Poland, and Hungary, it's Catholicism. In Putin's Russia, it's Eastern Orthodoxy.
But the beliefs are all the same. No Democracy, no women's rights, queers get killed, and the workers are kept poor.

@BohemianBabe Couldn't have said it better, agreed.

@BohemianBabe I can confirm having lived in red states myself. Red state states usually have boarded up windows and a bunch of churches on every corner. If you know then you know lols.

@MistyCee They do a good job of propaganda with the whole "blue states have higher crime" nonsense.

@MistyCee they tend to use cities for their stats because urban areas lean blue even in red states. That way they can blame the blue and not the population density. They don't talk states because then the per capita evens out real fast.

@SatanBurger Statistically, I'm guessing fewer Republicans can or do read, and Fox has served the movement really well in terms of helping prevent them from being contaminated by adverse information.

Murdoch had that down before Fox News, and it's been a much better winning alliance than the supposed international Jewish/Communist/Globalist/ Neocon/Elite Conspiracy that supposedly runs the other side, but which most often seems like a common interest group of non-crazy people trying to keep the world stable and work for the survival of most of humanity.

Going back to poverty and crime though, its actually a pretty complicated issue, because people who need them go to where there are services and infrastructure, which means usually cities, and they tend to vote Democrat, while Republicans have been living off of the rural areas and the white flight suburbs where people have gone to get away from crime and people who commit crime to get by.

As we mature, expand and fill up, though, and the effects of the GI bill and the New Society era stuff wear off, I'm guessing we'll eventually end up looking more like Europe, things are less black and white and policies as opposed to nationally workable propganda schemes or ideologies matter more.

The Urban/Suburban/rural thing will probably be the focus, imo, for the next few decades, but I doubt it will last once the suburbs and the cities merge and the truly rural areas become insignificant except in the Senate.

Honestly, I think Jefferson had some really great romantic ideas, but Hamilton forecast the future.

@MalteseFalconPunch Ah.. I get that. The thing is, we're caught with a feedback loop of sorts, between what voters are screaming about, and what politicians are trying to encourage them to scream about.

@SatanBurger I mean it was almost 100 years ago. That was pretty much ended in the 40s with the red scare.

@SatanBurger I also came across a few sources that state the term "redneck" came from radical marxist coal miners in Kentucky who wore red scarves around the time of the coal minor strikes like the War of Harlan County. There is a very strong leftist history in "conservative" states.

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow Haha I didn't even know that, now if I argue with a redneck again about how they think "the gays" are taking over society, I'll let them know just that lol.

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@graphite a whole other topic.

@TexChik Hmm... got any proof?

@JimboSaturn Hahaha yup.

@RocktheHouse A bunch of rich idiots making the people they claim to represent suffer as part of an ideological experiment.

@RocktheHouse the poor red states take more federal money than a state like California which puts in much more than it takes out.

@RocktheHouse https://www.politicscentral.org/red-states-receive-substantially-more-federal-aid-than-blue-states/

@RogueLoner But where do you get your sources from? Are they outright lies?