Why Poor States Are Red and Rich States Are Blue ?

[Two Thumbs]

Same reason why most of western Europe has higher per capita incomes in general!!! States that are well regulated, have good infrastructure, promote education and a good business climate draws high quality people.

The south is a shit hole because government is always evil and they have low standards.

Why is California broke then?

California broke?

California Budget Surplus Nears $1 Billion

California tax revenues continue to pour in. A strong October pulled the state nearly $1 billion above budget projections for the fiscal year that began in July.

The non-partisan Legislative Analyst’s Office says October income and sales tax proceeds each came in more than $200 million higher than projections in the state budget Gov. Jerry Brown signed this summer. And even though corporate tax revenues fell a bit short, last month’s gains give California a budget surplus so far this fiscal year of just under $900 million.

why would anyone be happy they got over taxed...

 

[Stephanie]

Same reason why most of western Europe has higher per capita incomes in general!!! States that are well regulated, have good infrastructure, promote education and a good business climate draws high quality people.

The south is a shit hole because government is always evil and they have low standards.

Why is California broke then?

California broke?

California Budget Surplus Nears $1 Billion

California tax revenues continue to pour in. A strong October pulled the state nearly $1 billion above budget projections for the fiscal year that began in July.

The non-partisan Legislative Analyst’s Office says October income and sales tax proceeds each came in more than $200 million higher than projections in the state budget Gov. Jerry Brown signed this summer. And even though corporate tax revenues fell a bit short, last month’s gains give California a budget surplus so far this fiscal year of just under $900 million.

why would anyone be happy they got over taxed...

no kidding. and have and have Governors try to tell them what size soda cups they need to drink from. I rather be poor than live in some of those cement jungles that smells and has rude people from living in them

 

[Votto]

If you look at the rich fat cats in the US, they are all Dims. Men like Warren Buffett, Bill Gates, George Soros, and Trump, up till he started to run for President, are all rabid Progressive democrats.

We have been sold a bill of goods that the fat cats are in the GOP and not in the democrat party. The opposite is true. Those in the democrat party are the task masters and those in the GOP are the cotton pickers who are too stupid to take care of themselves and don't realize that being on the plantation and working for "the man" is their only hope of survival.

 

[SassyIrishLass]

Same reason why most of western Europe has higher per capita incomes in general!!! States that are well regulated, have good infrastructure, promote education and a good business climate draws high quality people.

The south is a shit hole because government is always evil and they have low standards.

Oregon is a progressive shit hole

Quite right. That is why we are the #1 destination state at present. We just don't want any more of your non-feathered loons, we have had our fill of them at the Malhuer Game Refuge.

Such a boring state, with world class beachs, many mountain ranges, beautiful rivers, high desert, and one of the most productive agricultural valleys in the world. Ah yes, and don't forget the beers in Portland that even Germans rave about. Wines that impress the French. Oh yes, such a boring state.

Whatever, the downside to all that is it's infested with Liberal assholes. You being a prime example

 

[SassyIrishLass]

Does anybody here know that Dani67 is NOT American?
I believe he lives in the Middle East.

Dani is OK, I've learned a lot reading his comments. He lives in Iran which leads me to believe all Iranians are not that bad

 

[Stephanie]

Same reason why most of western Europe has higher per capita incomes in general!!! States that are well regulated, have good infrastructure, promote education and a good business climate draws high quality people.

The south is a shit hole because government is always evil and they have low standards.

Oregon is a progressive shit hole

Quite right. That is why we are the #1 destination state at present. We just don't want any more of your non-feathered loons, we have had our fill of them at the Malhuer Game Refuge.

Such a boring state, with world class beachs, many mountain ranges, beautiful rivers, high desert, and one of the most productive agricultural valleys in the world. Ah yes, and don't forget the beers in Portland that even Germans rave about. Wines that impress the French. Oh yes, such a boring state.

Whatever, the downside to all that is it's infested with Liberal assholes. You being a prime example

rude, crude and socially unacceptable and add in snobs =insufferable human beings

 

[SassyIrishLass]

Same reason why most of western Europe has higher per capita incomes in general!!! States that are well regulated, have good infrastructure, promote education and a good business climate draws high quality people.

The south is a shit hole because government is always evil and they have low standards.

Oregon is a progressive shit hole

Quite right. That is why we are the #1 destination state at present. We just don't want any more of your non-feathered loons, we have had our fill of them at the Malhuer Game Refuge.

Such a boring state, with world class beachs, many mountain ranges, beautiful rivers, high desert, and one of the most productive agricultural valleys in the world. Ah yes, and don't forget the beers in Portland that even Germans rave about. Wines that impress the French. Oh yes, such a boring state.

Whatever, the downside to all that is it's infested with Liberal assholes. You being a prime example

rude, crude and socially unacceptable and add in snobs =insufferable human beings

Don't forget dumber than a sack of hammers. If they didn't have their puppet masters telling them what to say they'd be mute

 

[Iceweasel]

I live in Mass . If we were our own country our students would rank 8th in the world .

The U.S. as a whole ranks far lower cause the dumb red states drag us down .

You should have let me know Timmy. I would not have called you an asshole. I would have understood why you are and kept it to myself.

He's a Masshole.

 

[deltex1]

Same reason why most of western Europe has higher per capita incomes in general!!! States that are well regulated, have good infrastructure, promote education and a good business climate draws high quality people.

The south is a shit hole because government is always evil and they have low standards.

Oregon is a progressive shit hole

Quite right. That is why we are the #1 destination state at present. We just don't want any more of your non-feathered loons, we have had our fill of them at the Malhuer Game Refuge.

Such a boring state, with world class beachs, many mountain ranges, beautiful rivers, high desert, and one of the most productive agricultural valleys in the world. Ah yes, and don't forget the beers in Portland that even Germans rave about. Wines that impress the French. Oh yes, such a boring state.

Whatever, the downside to all that is it's infested with Liberal assholes. You being a prime example

"with world class beachs, many mountain ranges, beautiful rivers, high desert, and one of the most productive agricultralight valleys in the world."

Be advised...you didn't build that....God did.

 

[SassyIrishLass]

Same reason why most of western Europe has higher per capita incomes in general!!! States that are well regulated, have good infrastructure, promote education and a good business climate draws high quality people.

The south is a shit hole because government is always evil and they have low standards.

Oregon is a progressive shit hole

Quite right. That is why we are the #1 destination state at present. We just don't want any more of your non-feathered loons, we have had our fill of them at the Malhuer Game Refuge.

Such a boring state, with world class beachs, many mountain ranges, beautiful rivers, high desert, and one of the most productive agricultural valleys in the world. Ah yes, and don't forget the beers in Portland that even Germans rave about. Wines that impress the French. Oh yes, such a boring state.

Whatever, the downside to all that is it's infested with Liberal assholes. You being a prime example

"with world class beachs, many mountain ranges, beautiful rivers, high desert, and one of the most productive agricultralight valleys in the world."

Be advised...you didn't build that....God did.

Gpa steps in and rings old dude's bell. Well done, well done

 

[deltex1]

Same reason why most of western Europe has higher per capita incomes in general!!! States that are well regulated, have good infrastructure, promote education and a good business climate draws high quality people.

The south is a shit hole because government is always evil and they have low standards.

Oregon is a progressive shit hole

Quite right. That is why we are the #1 destination state at present. We just don't want any more of your non-feathered loons, we have had our fill of them at the Malhuer Game Refuge.

Such a boring state, with world class beachs, many mountain ranges, beautiful rivers, high desert, and one of the most productive agricultural valleys in the world. Ah yes, and don't forget the beers in Portland that even Germans rave about. Wines that impress the French. Oh yes, such a boring state.

Whatever, the downside to all that is it's infested with Liberal assholes. You being a prime example

"with world class beachs, many mountain ranges, beautiful rivers, high desert, and one of the most productive agricultralight valleys in the world."

Be advised...you didn't build that....God did.

Gpa steps in and rings old dude's bell. Well done, well done

And I'm not even out of bed yet!

 

[ChrisL]

Some red states don't have a state income tax? That could be why. Texas, Florida, Tennessee and a couple of others, I believe. Is Florida considered a red state? Not sure.

 

[2aguy]

Why Poor States Are Red and Rich States Are Blue ?

And here is your answer…

Solved: Why Poor States Are Red and Rich States Are Blue

If we measure by consumption patterns then it’s the blue states that are poor, the red states that are rich:

Blue states, like California, New York and Illinois, whose economies turn on finance, trade and knowledge, are generally richer than red states. But red states, like Texas, Georgia and Utah, have done a better job over all of offering a higher standard of living relative to housing costs. That basic economic fact not only helps explain why the nation’s electoral map got so much redder in the November midterm elections, but also why America’s prosperity is in jeopardy.

Red state economies based on energy extraction, agriculture and suburban sprawl may have lower wages, higher poverty rates and lower levels of education on average than those of blue states — but their residents also benefit from much lower costs of living.

For a middle-class person , the American dream of a big house with a backyard and a couple of cars is much more achievable in low-tax Arizona than in deep-blue Massachusetts. As Jed Kolko, chief economist of Trulia, recently noted, housing costs almost twice as much in deep-blue markets ($227 per square foot) than in red markets ($119).

That particular piece then goes on to chunter away about how appalling it is that people aren’t willing to vote for more blue state type of policies and how this will be the end of America. However, the really interesting part of it is that part quoted above.

For it speaks to something that economists just keep trying to point out to people. Yes, sure, income inequality might be important in a way, wealth inequality should have a place in our thoughts. But what really matters to people about how life is lived is consumption. Levels of consumption and also consumption inequality. That last is important in a political sense currently because consumption inequality just hasn’t widened out as much as income and wealth inequality have. And levels of consumption: well, that’s really what income or wealth is, the ability to purchase consumption. And if you’re in a place where prices are lower, leading to greater consumption (whether of food, or square feet of housing, or leisure, or whatever), well, then you’re richer, aren’t you?


And thus is our conundrum solved. The red states aren’t in fact poorer than the blue states. They’re richer: that’s why they vote more conservative and more right wing.

We could, of course, take yet another point from this essay:

For blue state urbanites who toil in low-paying retail, food preparation and service jobs, for the journeyman tradespeople who once formed the heart of the middle class, for teachers, civil servants, students and young families, the American dream of homeownership — or even an affordable rental apartment — is increasingly out of reach.

Adding insult to injury, rapid gentrification in these larger knowledge hubs brings the constant threat of displacement of creative workers. For even the much better paid techies, engineers, financiers and managers who are displacing them, the metropolitan version of the American dream is a cramped condo or a small house and a long commute. Many are opting to move to cheaper red states instead, further driving their growth.

 

[Agit8r]

Whether a state is red or blue has a lot to do with the religious composition of the state. Take Washington and Idaho for instance. The key demographic difference between the two is that WA has a somewhat higher percentage of Catholics, and Idaho has more Mormons.

 

[deltex1]

Our Persian friend sets off a firestorm with a simple question. The sly mind of Mohammed.

I wonder why Sunni states are richer than Shia states?

 

[Wildman]

If you make 100k a year in Alabama, you have a nice house, cars, probably a boat to go fishing on the weekends. And you call us dumb...that's funny.

you just described my son who lives in Alabama, i just might sell all my property, personal possessions and go live there!!

 

[Timmy]

To answer the question : Red state suck at education.

A well educated public is a big draw for business. Better Education leads to higher wages and job opportunities .

 

[Iceweasel]

To answer the question : Red state suck at education.

A well educated public is a big draw for business. Better Education leads to higher wages and job opportunities .

Which is why they are migrating from California to Texas. Your theory needs work.

 

[deltex1]

To answer the question : Red state suck at education.

A well educated public is a big draw for business. Better Education leads to higher wages and job opportunities .

What percent of UMass students are math majors?

 

[Timmy]

To answer the question : Red state suck at education.

A well educated public is a big draw for business. Better Education leads to higher wages and job opportunities .

Which is why they are migrating from California to Texas. Your theory needs work.

Cause life is cheaper in Texas . And Texas is lucky enough to have an energy boon , thanks to natural resources .

And is there a Texas city that is not attached to at least one giant military base ?!