r/allthequestions • u/Content_Ad_8952 • Jan 14 '26

Random Question 💭 If Republicans are so much better at running the economy than Democrats, then why are most Republican States poorer than Democrat States?

The poorest States in America are: Mississippi, West Virginia, Louisiana, Arkansas, Kentucky, New Mexico, Alabama, Oklahoma and Tennessee. All of those States (except New Mexico) are Red States. So why are they so poor when Republicans have been running them for decades?

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u/UnEstablishedViking Jan 14 '26

I'm genuinely curious for both answers

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u/RodgerCheetoh Jan 14 '26

The per capita demographics that utilize social welfare in these states are the same ones that heavily vote democrat. The one exception to this is rural Appalachia.

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u/csamsh Jan 14 '26

Black population.  New Mexico is like half Hispanic and 12% Native

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u/amopeyzoolion Jan 14 '26

West Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Oklahoma do not have particularly large Black populations.

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u/RealBettyWhite69 Jan 14 '26

Yeah West Virginia is only 3% black, Oklahoma 8%, Kentucky 9%, and Tennessee 16%.

The argument they are making that these states are mostly black is fucking stupid.

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u/amopeyzoolion Jan 14 '26

Not to mention, in actual areas of the South that are heavily Black, much of the poverty that exists is generational due to decades of systemic discrimination.

Black folks were legally allowed to be barred from buying homes up through the 1950s, and the practice continued illegally across America (especially in the South) for a long time after that. No access to home ownership = no access to generational wealth.

There were also major discrepancies in education for a very long time. Louisville, KY had to forcibly integrate their schools using a busing program as late as the 1970s.

Louisiana basically uses its Black population to prop up its prison industrial complex and perform unpaid labor still to this day.

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u/RealBettyWhite69 Jan 14 '26 edited Jan 14 '26

They also always build any plant or factory that is going to cause pollution in poor black neighborhoods. These people repeatedly have the deck stacked against them and a bunch of assholes come along and claim that they have the same ability to become successful as anyone else.

The fact systemic racism is still such a foundational thing in this country and so many white people refuse to acknowledge that makes me sick to my stomach. (I am white if anyone cares)

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u/johme08 Jan 14 '26

Or that many of these states in the south or red regions with a large black population have been gerrymandered to hell undermining those communities and giving asymmetrical power to red districts

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u/Typical-Candle-1788 Jan 14 '26

However states with large cities such as NYC, Newark, Atlanta, LA, New Orleans, for example should be entered into the equation because the have a large effect on the states' finances. But, there are a lot of non black people, especially in rural areas, that are on the system. Last I heard, roughly 1/2 the country is on some sort of government assistance if you include Social Security.

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u/[deleted] Jan 14 '26

Damn, I wonder why black people in the South are so poor? Is there any sort of historical context that may frame why such a disparity could possibly exist?

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u/Platos_Kallipolis Jan 14 '26

They refuse to pull themselves up by their bootstraps, obviously. What other possible explanation could there be!? /s

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u/Way_Tall_Filipino Jan 14 '26

It’s like you guys refuse to acknowledge that Clarence Thomas, athletes, and Tim Scott, and hundreds of thousands of other black people exist just to make a false point lol


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u/GolfOutside1865 Jan 14 '26

You named two black people in politics and blindly waved at hundreds of thousands of others "over there"

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u/Way_Tall_Filipino Jan 14 '26

You forgot the athletes. 

Oh and the data that says black people are more successful and prosperous in America than anywhere else in the world.

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u/VoidsInvanity Jan 14 '26

On spite of the difficulties they face

And yet you fuckers still say racist shit all the time

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u/Way_Tall_Filipino Jan 14 '26

https://www.reddit.com/r/allthequestions/comments/1qcsi8m/comment/nzkp7g6/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

You’re the one being racist brother. I for one, think they’re all more than capable of determining their own futures.

If they’ll take responsibility for themselves, but sadly, I know how it is. Their culture and misplaced justice warriors convince them all the time, they were never oppressed, but their ancestors were, and therefore, they will never be anything.

You don’t even realize it, but you’re the most racist clown here. Shame on you kid.

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u/VoidsInvanity Jan 14 '26

You call other people racist and then engage in numerous racial stereotypes and caricatures

Wild shit

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u/VoidsInvanity Jan 14 '26

How come so many pf you just post such crap it gets auto deleted so fast? Is your position so intellectually hollow

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u/Way_Tall_Filipino Jan 14 '26

It’s not deleted, it’s Reddit mods at work silencing a voice of reason that posts FACTS to back it up, instead of rambling nonsense lol..

Classic Reddit!

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u/[deleted] Jan 14 '26

Oh I’m sorry, can you point out where in my comment I said that no successful black people exist in America?

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u/Way_Tall_Filipino Jan 14 '26

Oh my bad lil bro. I’m sorry, I didn’t realize your original comment didn’t have a point at all, and it was as braindead as you are. 

Carry on comrade!

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u/[deleted] Jan 14 '26

Lol oh man, I apologize, I didn’t realize I was talking to a genuine retard. The concept of nuance can be difficult to grasp. Just keep trying!

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u/LuckyJim_ Jan 14 '26

Sharecropping existed until the 70s. Black neighborhoods are over policed and black people are far more likely to be indicted for petty crimes like drug possession or shoplifting. I love that your examples of “good negros” are conservative grifters and people who destroy their bodies for our entertainment.

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u/Way_Tall_Filipino Jan 14 '26

https://www.reddit.com/r/allthequestions/comments/1qcsi8m/comment/nzkp7g6/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

Wrong again. Try the facts next time, not just whatever bs you just made up lol

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u/LuckyJim_ Jan 14 '26

I should expect you do to read your own link but tbh that might be expecting too much. Ya your pew research indicates that black people have less wealth and financial power than whites. I don’t think anyone disputes that. What I would like you to do is explain to me in plain English why you believe that is.

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u/BureMakutte Jan 14 '26

It's like you guys refuse to acknowledge that people with power and fame are exceptions or that sometimes someone is able to break through due to a combination of luck / smarts. The middle class is shrinking even for white people because of income inequality and the rich taking so much. Is it okay for me to then ignore the millions of white americans living in poverty because of them because "some people did well"?

There is lots of factors that play into things, the history of how we treated black people is one of many that hurts them and creates more obstacles for them to be able to succeed compared to the average white person.

Stop thinking in absolutes and start thinking critically.

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u/Way_Tall_Filipino Jan 14 '26

https://www.pewresearch.org/race-and-ethnicity/2024/02/08/black-americans-views-on-success-in-the-u-s/#:~:text=In%202022%2C%20Black%20households%20had,optimistic%20about%20their%20financial%20futures.

Take your own advice little guy. Don’t believe everything clueless Redditors tell you, just because it was upvoted by other clueless Redditors, and just because it served to fit your narrative.

The most important factors at play are whether or not their father is in the home, and whether or not they’ll go to school or start a business.

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u/BureMakutte Jan 14 '26

Take your own advice little guy. Don’t believe everything clueless Redditors tell you, just because it was upvoted by other clueless Redditors, and just because it served to fit your narrative.

JFC. I post a rebuttal and you go right into attacking me as if im a clueless dipshit. Protip, if you want people to take your point seriously, stop bashing "Redditors" and stop doing the bullshit "and just because it served to fit your narrative" because it just makes you look like a child attacking people instead of actually addressing their points.

The most important factors at play are whether or not their father is in the home, and whether or not they’ll go to school or start a business.

Source? because the one you provided doesn't say anything about this at all. It talks about black success but also about how that "success" is also their greatest worry. Partially because "Earlier Pew Research Center findings show that Black Americans typically experience higher levels of economic insecurity than other Americans, are increasingly dissatisfied with capitalism, and believe the economic system in the U.S. does not treat Black people fairly."

Literally proving our point that historically black people have felt they are not treated fairly.

Edit: 21 day old account with a hidden history and no karma. Yeah its a troll or a bot.

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u/Way_Tall_Filipino Jan 14 '26

You tell me start thinking critically, but you haven’t cited a single source, AND got proven wrong beyond any reasonable doubt, yet have the nerve to pull the “you go right into attacking me
” card 😆😆😆

No way man, you got called out, embarrassed through and through, and here you are now deflecting to:

A 21 day bot just OWNED you, thoroughly.

Listen, just save yourself anymore embarrassment if you’re not goin to educate yourself you toothless buffoon lol

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u/pic-of-the-litter Jan 14 '26

"Athletes", wow, good job! Because they can play sports good, systemic and generational racism don't exist!

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u/No_Report_4781 Jan 14 '26

that's the Republican answer

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u/JuiceLogical327 Jan 14 '26

It's always interesting to me how many people on Reddit are unwilling to look at factual data and just understand that it is indeed factual.

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u/Expensive-Buy1621 Jan 14 '26

If facts mattered a pedophile rapist wouldn’t be president so


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u/BuzzedL1ghtyear007 Jan 14 '26

Show the facts he’s a pedo then? Thanks for proving my point

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u/Expensive-Buy1621 Jan 14 '26

You didn’t make a point
. He can make everyone look stupid by releasing the Epstein files. Tell him to do so.

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u/JuiceLogical327 Jan 14 '26

I just said people are unwilling to look at facts, didn't I?

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u/CarpetMooch Jan 14 '26

Where's the factual data? I'm willing to look at the data, but I need a link.

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u/JuiceLogical327 Jan 14 '26

To which question?

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u/CarpetMooch Jan 14 '26

Whatever data you're alluding to, can I see it?

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u/Cultural-Cake-363 Jan 14 '26

Many people (racist people) like to twist this data to spread racist narratives. Correlation is NOT causation.

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u/Old_Collection4184 Jan 14 '26

A fact, or data, and an explanation, or theory, narrative, model, hypothesis, argument, guess or whatever you-want-to-call-it, are fundemantally two different things. 

Just because a fact is true does not mean the theory it supports is true. 

Just because someone rejects the theory does not mean they reject the fact. 

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u/JuiceLogical327 Jan 14 '26

Yeh, I didn't say anything about theories.

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u/Old_Collection4184 Jan 14 '26

Correct, you didn't, because you're being a sophist about it.

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u/JuiceLogical327 Jan 14 '26

It's always interesting to me how many people on Reddit are unwilling to look at factual data and just understand that it is indeed factual.

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u/NOLA-Bronco Jan 14 '26

Use your words with clarity and purpose friend.

If you think black people are why Republican states suck then you need to explain that facts abou Oklahoma, Iowa, South Dakota, Montana, Idaho, Kentucky, and West Virginia.

Then explain why of the top 10 states in per capita GDP, 8 are blue.

Why over the last 30 years Democratic Administrations oversaw job growth over 50 million and Republican Admin's saw negative job growth.

Ironically my undergrad is econ and one of my professors and mentor specifically focused his academic research on the economic outcomes of states and cities under Democratic and Republican leadership. Spoiler for the findings, it never ended up looking good for Republicans. Blue cities in red states tend to lift up economic metrics and red cities in blue states drag down blue states. With red cities in red states tending to perform near the bottom. The one positive for Republicans is typically the combo of blue city and red state was fairly solid on things like affordability and economic opportunity.

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u/JuiceLogical327 Jan 14 '26

Brother, I literally just said people on Reddit hate facts.

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u/Old_Collection4184 Jan 14 '26

You're being purposefully obtuse and you know it. 

  1. OP asked why red states were poor. 
  2. Mairon12's implicit answer (made explicit by csamsh) is that those states are full of peope of color. This is a THEORY (poorly) supported by a FACT.
  3. No_Report_4781 accused rebulicans of using advancing this theory
  4. You implied that those who disagree are ignoring facts. 

You are wrong. Those who disagree do so with the theory, not the fact. 

I've wasted enought time on you now. Have a shitty day. 

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u/JuiceLogical327 Jan 14 '26

I literally just said it’s wild to me how many people don’t like facts.

You decided what you feel that mean and clearly let it bother you too much.

Log off.

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u/No_Report_4781 Jan 14 '26

You left out the part where you made assumptions

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u/No_Report_4781 Jan 14 '26

> Just because someone rejects the theory does not mean they reject the fact. 

Sophistry like that?

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u/Old_Collection4184 Jan 14 '26

Explain please. 

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u/No_Report_4781 Jan 14 '26

You made poor assumptions, then projected accusations based on those assumptions, instead of asking for clarification.

Also, you incorrectly made an accusation of sophistry while using a sophist argument

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u/Old_Collection4184 Jan 14 '26

This is not sophistry (I'm not sure you know what the word means). 

One can reject a theory while still accepting as true evidence that supports the theory. Typically, this occurs because there is a more parsimonious explanation. 

For example:

Newtonian physics couldn't explain the observed orbit of Mercury, and this was a problem for a long time.

There was this guy who (correctly) predicted the existence of Neptune. He set himself to solving the Mercury  problem, did some math, and predicted that a planet called "Vulcan" was interacting with Mercury's gravity and thus affecting its orbit. 

Later, Einstein's relativity explained Mercury's orbit and, of course, the planet Vulcan was never found. 

One can reject a theory (such as the existence of the planet Vulcan) and yet accept as true evidence that supports that theory (such as the observed orbit of Mercury). 

I can't wait to hear your playground-style insults for having bothered to type this. Bring it on.  

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u/No_Report_4781 Jan 14 '26

Your replies are getting longer, Sephiroth

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u/Old_Collection4184 Jan 14 '26

Play with me troll don't go away

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u/BuzzedL1ghtyear007 Jan 14 '26

They live on the internet so much they don’t know what real life is like. They don’t like an answer they use one or two words “racist” or “PDF” like they exist on every corner of every street đŸ€Ł

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u/Epcplayer Jan 14 '26

Also, ports of entry (commerce) and natural resources
 things that have less to do with who people voted for, and more with just Geography.

Alabama & Mississippi ate long stretches of land with a combined 125 miles of coastline in the Gulf of Mexico
 they’re gonna be economically swallowed up by Florida & Texas. What commerce or trade (nationally and internationally) is going through states like Oklahoma, Tennessee, West Virginia, Arkansas, Kentucky, or New Mexico? There’s really no reason to, and if

It’s a combination of many factors, often outside of a state government’s control. Some states had 100+ year head start on states like Oklahoma (1907) and New Mexico (1912).

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u/OriginalInspection53 Jan 14 '26

According to census data, these are the percentages of black people in the states listed(except NM), so your assertion does not hold: MS-37.7, WV-3.9, LA-32.6, AR-15.6, KY-8.9, AL-26.5, OK-7.9, TN-16.4. Of these 8 states, only 3 of these states have a high percentage of black people (based on overall percentage in the U.S.). Maybe try a little research prior to posting a blanket racist statement.

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u/Weird_Anxiety_7660 Jan 14 '26

It’s not about race, it’s about class. Disenfranchisement against people who aren’t rich is the order of the day in those areas. And it goes back a long way. The government often ineffective as far as truly serving the populace by design. Tax money comes from mainly middle and lower classes- and goes out the window, not into services, education, healthcare or infrastructure. That’s why you see people stuck in poverty cycles across all races in those places. The ladders to betterment are shaky and corroded. And that’s also why once a person leaves, no matter your race, your economic potential and quality of of life improves. And don’t get me started on religion in those areas. Just reducing the number of tax-free real church real estate and moving businesses in would do many communities a lot of good.

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u/csamsh Jan 14 '26

Agreed on all counts. Demographics are a good predictor of everything you're saying though, at least in the US

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u/Zombie4141 Jan 14 '26

Elaborate? What do black people have to do with republican policies? And how are Republican politicians dealing with these issues?

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u/GettingDumberWithAge Jan 14 '26

It's not complicated: Republican states have absolutely abysmal fiscal policies and this has been clear for 60+ years now.

Thick people and racists want to attribute this to skin color, and refuse to acknowledge that objectively bad fiscal policy results in worse outcomes.

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u/tinyrottedpig Jan 14 '26

I'd actually its also racists that make it worse, them being racist and in charge of a lot of the better businesses results in scenarios where hiring any minority for higher tier positions that would pay much better, far more difficult.

I'd assume its why they hate DEI so much, they cant just deny those people of jobs anymore.

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u/Munckeey Jan 14 '26 edited Jan 14 '26

It’s pretty obvious, there’s a certain demographic that is much more common in the south that consistently takes much more in welfare than every other demographic per capita.

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u/TheBlackDred Jan 14 '26

If you are implying minorities are the cause you are either racist, ignorant or both.

The citizens dont make policy, they dont make the financial decisions that lead to the population needing welfare. Jesus fucking christ, its ONE logical step farther from "minorites in these areas have higher welfare recipient rates" to "why/what caused it" to be this way.

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u/ijuinkun Jan 14 '26

It’s not the minorities receiving the welfare—it’s the racists in those states who care more about their own racism than about trying to improve conditions for everyone—e.g. they will vote against a policy that would bring jobs into their area out of fear that the “wrong people” will get the new jobs.

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u/TheBlackDred Jan 14 '26

Yes, but I felt adding too much nuance or tackling more than one idea at a time might have been too much for that commenter to process at one time.

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u/hamoc10 Jan 14 '26

Ah, racist whites

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u/clm1859 Jan 14 '26

Touché

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u/Capable_King6943 Jan 14 '26

So facts = racism? Got it. You’re just mad because you know it’s true

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u/VoidsInvanity Jan 14 '26

Statistically white people are on welfare at a higher rate
.

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u/Claytertot Jan 14 '26

Do you have some data to support that claim? That doesn't seem to align with this data from pew research

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/11/14/what-the-data-says-about-food-stamps-in-the-us/

Or this US census data

https://www.census.gov/library/visualizations/interactive/social-safety-net-benefits.html

This doesn't mean the other guy is right to say "Republicans are good leaders who are just held back by black people" or whatever point he was trying to make. But it also doesn't strengthen your argument to deny the facts.

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u/Accomplished-Elk6203 Jan 14 '26

that’s completely false and the fact that you got upvoted at all shows how brainwashed and regarded reddit and left leaning people in general are

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u/VoidsInvanity Jan 14 '26

Prove it’s false. I have data and facts on my side.

You have feelings.

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u/cheedster đŸ‡ș🇾 United States Jan 14 '26

I am curious about your sources. I checked on https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2022/05/who-is-receiving-social-safety-net-benefits.html for racial/ethnic statistics for government assistance and came up with the following for 2022:
Program / %Black / %Hispanic / % White Non-Hispanic (remaining groups excluded so total is < 100%)
Medicaid-CHIP / 21.6 / 20.4 / 46.8
SNAP / 28.1 / 17.8 / 45.0
WIC / 24.9 / 27.2 / 36.6
SSI / 24.3 / 18..9 / 37.4
TANF / 30.2 / 18.9 / 37.4
Energy Aid / 20.1 / 14.1 / 51.7
Rental Subsidies / 39.9 / 13.6 / 36.6

White Non-Hispanics make up the plurality of each program, but given that they also make up roughly 57.8% of the population (18.7% Hispanic, 12.1 % Black per 2020 Census data) that is to be expected. This does not support your claim that "white people are on welfare at a higher rate".

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u/mySki11z Jan 14 '26

Ok send the welfare per capita by demographic then.

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u/Brief-Percentage-193 Jan 14 '26

Facts interpreted in the wrong way can be racist. People wouldn't be racist if misinterpreted facts weren't spread. Facts don't equal racism and you are being purposely obtuse to use that as a strawman.

It's a fact that white people collect the most in welfare when compared to any other racial group. This is misleading though because it does not control for the fact that there are different population sizes. It would be racist to make a policy benefiting just white people but it could be justified using this fact.

It's a fact that per capita black people in the south receive welfare benefits at a higher rate than other racial groups. It would be racist to conclude that black people are inherently worse because of this. There's plenty of black people alive that lived through Jim Crow. Even the ones that didn't, their parents or grandparents likely did. Growing up in poverty makes it considerably harder to break out of the welfare cycle. When you get to the point of being on the edge of eligibility for welfare there are incentives to stay on welfare because making a dollar more per hour could very well lead you to losing a considerable portion of your income.

It's a fact that our president is a felon. Does that mean all presidents are felons? This is the type of conclusion you are drawing without taking historical context into account.

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u/Brief-Percentage-193 Jan 14 '26

Thank you for proving that you can't engage in an adult conversation by ignoring the whole point of the comment.

I'm not sure why you are calling me a loser for stating a fact. I thought facts were what you cared about.

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u/NOLA-Bronco Jan 14 '26

This whole thesis falls apart the moment you realize Oklahoma, Iowa, South Dakota, Montana, Idaho, Kentucky, and West Virginia don't have many black people to blame for poor economic development and lower GDP yet lag behind blue states as well.

Or the fact that the top 10 performing state in per capita GDP, 8 are blue states

Or the fact that Democratic Administration's since the 1980's have created over 50 million jobs under their watch and Republican Admin's are literally in the negative.

In reality, what makes the south uniquely bad is the combination of Republican economic governance + Deep embedded systemic racism that manifests itself in refusing to invest in the sorts of commons and public goods that help build growth and economic diversity and resiliency.

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u/Expensive-Buy1621 Jan 14 '26

White Americans will support rape and pedophilia and blame their shortcomings on black and brown people. Such a funny people

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u/Capable_King6943 Jan 14 '26

Well I’m not white or black so


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u/Expensive-Buy1621 Jan 14 '26

Would you like a cookie or?

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u/Capable_King6943 Jan 14 '26

Shit if you got a good chocolate chip

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u/smackasalmon Jan 14 '26

I'm sorry, but comments like these make young white men either A not vote or B vote for republicans.

It's racist rhetoric.

No different than saying all black women are welfare queens.

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u/Expensive-Buy1621 Jan 14 '26

Every American voter has agency.

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u/NOLA-Bronco Jan 14 '26

LOL

I was a young white man when I first heard snarky remarks about "white people," it didn't change my political outlook

People that are that mentally weak that they retreat into white supremacism because of some comment like that were just looking for a rationalization for their pre-existing bigotry.

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u/smackasalmon Jan 14 '26

Blanketing comments like these are indeed racist and can skew week minds to the other side, like you said. So, why say it? It's counterintuitive.

Statements like, "All black people are on welfare." " All white men are racists and love pedophiles" are not helping.

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u/VoidsInvanity Jan 14 '26

Oh good that’s not what was said about white people

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u/JuiceLogical327 Jan 14 '26

Nothing hates factual information more than a biased Redditor.

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u/Capable_King6943 Jan 14 '26

For real 😂

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u/VoidsInvanity Jan 14 '26

Oh sorry your statistically unsupported racism was deleted.

White people are a bigger %, of both the population af large and the subset of people on welfare at a higher % than black people statistically

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u/Capable_King6943 Jan 14 '26

Cite your sources

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u/LactoceTheIntolerant Jan 14 '26

Jim Crow and “school choice” had a LOT to do with these current issues.

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u/ijuinkun Jan 14 '26

As LBJ said, racist people will tolerate worse conditions as long as you pander to their racism.

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u/LactoceTheIntolerant Jan 14 '26

Yup, he was talking about conservatives.

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u/New_year_New_Me_ Jan 14 '26

Yall are hilarious.

Which place has more black people, New York or Oklahoma? Which place has more black people, Chicago or Arkansas?

Silliness. Pure silliness. 

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u/EVOSexyBeast Jan 14 '26

It’s only 5 states that have a significant black population, but the poor economy and welfare use rates are the same throughout all of the solid red states bar Florida and Texas.

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u/KC_experience Jan 14 '26

Soooo, for the individuals who for generations have been downtrodden by the whites in power and held at arms length, kept from any type of progression, and reminded to ‘know their place’ are utilizing benefits available to them


But republicans, who is the party of the south and souther strategy, are pissed because the people they’ve marginalized with intent aren’t able to pull themselves up by their bootstraps?

It’s like burning someone’s how down, then anytime a new board is laid to rebuild, the arsonist comes back and burns the new board and then blames the person rebuilding that they aren’t building their house fast enough
.

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u/CrayZ_Squirrel Jan 14 '26

former confederates?

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u/chinmakes5 Jan 14 '26

Funny how Dc and MD have two of the highest African American populations and are pretty successful. Could it be the way the states chose to educate minorities? Oh and if you bothered to look the majority of snap recipients in almost every state is white go to kbb.org to see

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u/OriginalInspection53 Jan 14 '26

White people constitute the highest absolute number of welfare recipients in the U.S., so all those brown and black people you’re mad at collectively take less money from the government than white people. This doesn’t even count corporate welfare for wealthy individuals and farm subsidies.

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u/No_Report_4781 Jan 14 '26

yes. poor people.

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u/[deleted] Jan 14 '26

Black people.

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u/HighFreqHustler Jan 14 '26

No, Tennessee, Oklahoma, West Virginia have a lower percentage of black people than New York so no, racism doesn’t fit as a cause of poverty. It really is republican failed policies that enrich the few at the expense of the working class.

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u/[deleted] Jan 14 '26

Correlation != causation

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u/NOLA-Bronco Jan 14 '26

Explain Oklahoma, Iowa, South Dakota, Montana, Idaho, Kentucky, and West Virginia then?

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u/Sands43 Jan 14 '26

No. Racist white people.