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On 2026-03-29, Pudgy the Orange Hate Whale <
bflatt3xz2@gmail.com> wrote:
Why are Red State Citizens Poorer, Less Educated & Sicker than Blue State Citizens?
Hartmann Report Republicans worship cheap labor and having a steady and reliable supply of cheap labor requires widespread poverty
We must not confuse statistical probability with some transcendental and utterly compelling force. Unspiek, Baron Bodissey One of the enduring mysteries of America is why the citizens of Red states are generally poorer, less educated, and sicker than the citizens of Blue states. To that question, I step up as your hierophant with an answer to this deep mystery that you may not have previously considered. First, that generalization is broadly true:
Blue states account for about 71 percent of Americas GDP, whereas Red states only produce 29 percent of our income and wealth.
The median family income in Blue states is $74,243. In Red states its $63,553. Individual states highlight the disparity: New Jerseys median income is $89,703, while Mississippis is $49,111.
Counties that voted for Biden in 2020 are more diverse, being 35 percent nonwhite compared to 16 percent nonwhite populations in counties that voted for Trump.
Counties that voted for Biden in 2020 are better educated, with 36 percent of their population having some college education compared to Trumps counties at 25 percent.
Residents of Blue states live 2.2 years longer, on average, than residents of Red states.
And, second, its undeniably true (and documented with each hotlink below) that Republican-controlled Red states, almost across the board, have higher rates of:
Spousal abuse
Obesity
Smoking
Teen pregnancy
Sexually transmitted diseases
Abortion (at least before Dobbs; now it would be forced births)
Bankruptcies and poverty
Homicide and suicide
Infant mortality
Maternal mortality
Forcible rape
Robbery and aggravated assault
Dropouts from high school
Divorce
Contaminated air and water
Opiate addiction and deaths
Unskilled workers
Parasitic infections
Income and wealth inequality
Covid deaths and unvaccinated people
Federal subsidies to states (Red State Welfare)
People on welfare
Child poverty
Homelessness
Spousal murder
Unemployment
Deaths from auto accidents
People living on disability
Gun deaths
But are all these things happening because Republicans simply hate their citizens and explicitly want high levels of poverty, ignorance, death, and disease? Turns out theres a much simpler answer. The problem for Red states is that Republicans worship cheap labor, which drives up profits for the fat-cats who own American businesses and having a steady and reliable supply of cheap labor requires widespread poverty, ignorance, death, and disease. That poverty, of course, brings along with it the long list of social ills above, but Republicans are more than willing to tolerate massive, desperate levels of human suffering to make sure theres a steady supply of cheap labor. In fact, they intentionally run their states that
way to produce those results.
What you’ve got there isn’t an argument, it’s a stats smoothie—dump in a
little GDP, a sprinkle of health metrics, hit “blend,” and call it a theory. You’re lumping entire states together while the outcomes you’re bragging about are driven by a few dense, blue-run metros, then acting
like that proves something profound about “red states.” Of course GDP
looks bigger when you stack finance, tech, and media into a handful of
coastal hubs; of course the cost of living chews through those headline incomes; of course big-city crime dominates totals. None of that backs
your causal story—it just shows you discovered aggregation and stopped thinking. Then you toss in lifestyle factors, demographics, and reporting differences like they’re interchangeable proof, which is how you end up
with a collage instead of a model. Meanwhile, people and businesses keep
voting with their feet, leaving the places you’re praising for ones you
claim are “failing.” If logic were a gym, you’d be curling empty bars and calling it a PR.
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Tom Mix
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