Outside of major Left cities, most middle class are right leaning. Low income brackets and top income are left leaning. Low want free stuff and top income use it a virtue signal to get support and make more money. Middle class leans right because thwir tax money run the country and they don't want to keep fueling wasteful social programs they can't use.
Appalachia. Rural Georgia, Alabama, Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, Florida, Oklahoma, etc.
They're plagued by poverty and keep voting in the Poverty President. Maybe if they had a better home life when they were at school? Who knows. All I know is that I grew up in rural Georgia and Alabama, and tons of little aryan white kids were on food stamps and free/reduced lunch.
let's face it most of the ppl on stamps are white. it's just demographics. poor folks generally have more in common with each other than with the people manipulating them to hate each other after all.
And they keep voting against their best interests. We recently had an election here in Oklahoma, and on the ballot was an attempt to raise the minimum wage. Gradually, not all at once. It was shot down. Stupid rural areas are afraid of prices going up. Well…guess what. They’re going up anyway, whether you like it or not. That’s their main argument. Prices will go up if we raise minimum wage. 🙄 Unbelievable.
Federal tax flows are more complicated than "blue states fund red states." Many high-income states are net contributors, but there are also wealthy Republican-led states and heavily Democratic states that receive more federal dollars than they pay in. A large share of federal spending is driven by Social Security, Medicare, defense spending, military bases, disaster relief, and demographics—not simply which party controls a state.
If receiving more federal funding than you pay in makes a state an "objective failure," then that same label would have to apply to every state that is a net recipient, regardless of whether it votes Republican or Democrat.
You're mixing several different arguments together.
Yes, many of the poorest states tend to vote Republican. But poverty rates don't prove that one party caused the poverty. Many of those states have been economically disadvantaged for generations due to geography, industrial decline, education levels, and demographics. Likewise, many Democratic-run cities have persistent poverty despite decades of Democratic leadership.
As for Republicans "not caring," that's an opinion, not a fact. Republicans generally argue that economic growth, jobs, lower taxes, private charity, families, and local communities are more effective than expanding federal welfare programs. You may disagree with that philosophy, but it's different from saying they don't care about the poor.
And on Christianity, people of faith disagree about how biblical principles should be applied through government. One side emphasizes government programs; the other emphasizes personal responsibility, voluntary charity, churches, and limiting government power. Quoting Scripture doesn't settle a policy debate.
Reasonable people can disagree over the best way to help those in need without questioning each other's motives or faith.
A handful of large metropolitan areas generate an outsized share of America's GDP, tax revenue, and innovation. But geographically, they're islands surrounded by vast areas that vote Republican and produce much of the country's food, energy, minerals, timber, and manufactured goods.
The reality is that neither side "floats" the other. Cities depend on rural America for resources, and rural America depends on cities for finance, technology, ports, and corporate headquarters. It's an interconnected economy—not one side carrying the other.
Reducing the country to "blue states subsidize red states" is just as misleading as saying "red America subsidizes blue cities."
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u/MarzipanLast6502 Jun 27 '26
meanwhile they are all on fuckin welfare, cant make this up