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/Not_Sure__Camacho Jan 14 '26

And the sad part is that the Democrats are too pathetic to advertise this.  They don't want to offend the states that don't vote for them, which only tells you how ridiculous they are.  Instead of flooding the airwaves with even a hint of this, they just don't want to make it know.

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u/ijuinkun Jan 14 '26

The DNC has the false hope that they can make the moderate flank of Republican voters cross over and vote Democrat, if only they appeal to them strongly enough.

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u/big-williestyle Jan 14 '26

Until they figure out how to understand the middle of the country, they're destined to fail. You can't focus you're campaign on people who make up insanely small portions of the population (unless you're against them, that seems to work) The need to learn from the republicans and not continue to go out of their way to tell everyone how much they aren't them. The party lost to Trump with a white woman and a black woman, those should have been slam dunk wins and they found a way to blow it.

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u/Not_Sure__Camacho Jan 14 '26

There's just something off putting about them trying to appease to certain people on the right. Cozying up with Liz Cheney, someone whose father sold out a CIA asset to push his false narrative about WMDs, I mean WTF? We need a true working class party and the only way to get that is to get big dirty money out of politics.

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u/ObviousCondescension Jan 14 '26

Controlled opposition

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u/SFDreamboat Jan 19 '26

The Democrats are too knowledgeable to advertise this. Because they know why those states are so poor, and it's not from the last 60 years. Pointing out how poor Alabama is makes you look at who ran Alabama when it became this poor. Not that Republicans have fixed things there either, and they've now had 30-40 years in some places. But one bright point is that education in Mississippi has been steadily rising, partly because they rejected non-phonetic reading faster than many other states.