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Appalachia has been in abject poverty for over 100 years. There is no City of Appalachia. Same goes for MississippiYeah, let's look at that.
Hey, let's look at the POVERTY rates in red states vs. Blue states.
States are not in poverty--cities are. And what do they consider poverty? By how much they get from the federal government. However, the cost of living is so high in commie states, that you can live just as good if not better in a red state making half of the income.
A 800K house where you live costs about 300K here, and we are technically not considered a red state. However our government is all red and has been for some years now. Our poverty exists in blue cities.
Actually, most of the Red States ALREADY look like Cleveland. It's the Republicans that have spent the last 40 years making war on the middle class. Your city used to be an affluent industrial hub. Today it's a ghost town because Republicans got their way, busted the unions and moved all the industry to somewhere they'd to it cheaper.
Yes, cheaper, like China. And it happened across the entire country, not just red states.
So why did they go to places like China? Because of the unions. The Republicans didn't bust up the unions, the consumers did. When you have two of the same products on the store shelf, one of them twice the cost of the other one, the cheaper one will sell out first, and nobody will buy the more expensive one unless the cheaper one is sold out and they have no choice.
Americans soon realized that if they go union, their shop will move out of state, out of the country, or simply close down because they can't compete with foreign made products.