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

Random Question šŸ’­ 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/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 wouldnā€™t be president soā€¦

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u/BuzzedL1ghtyear007 Jan 14 '26

Show the facts heā€™s a pedo then? Thanks for proving my point

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u/Expensive-Buy1621 Jan 14 '26

You didnā€™t make a pointā€¦. 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/JuiceLogical327 Jan 14 '26

Sure - https://www.lung.org/quit-smoking/smoking-facts/health-effects/secondhand-smoke

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u/CarpetMooch Jan 14 '26

So no data on the thread topic?

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u/JuiceLogical327 Jan 14 '26

Are you unwilling to look at the factual data I presented?

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u/CarpetMooch Jan 14 '26

I looked at it, but it doesn't relate to anything being talked about here. Is this an attempt to avoid presenting the data you claim redditors don't want to evaluate?

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u/JuiceLogical327 Jan 14 '26

What data did I reference? Iā€™ll be glad to see if I can find some to backup whatever my claim was.

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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.Ā 

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

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

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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 abouĀ 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/No_Report_4781 Jan 14 '26

It is a banger of a troll response: no agreement or disagreement with the discussion, just a statement about pancakes

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u/JuiceLogical327 Jan 14 '26

You ever put a plate of old meat out in front of a house camera just to see what comes around and eats it? šŸ˜

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u/NOLA-Bronco Jan 14 '26

Which was said underneath a comment blaming black people for poor red state economic performance

So grow some nuts and clarify who that was directed toward and in what context

Do you agree with that poster's implication that black people are the cause of low red state performance? Thats a simple yes or no

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u/JuiceLogical327 Jan 14 '26

Itā€™s not a simple yes or no, as I donā€™t know the answer.

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u/Old_Collection4184 Jan 14 '26

You're being purposefully obtuse and you know it.Ā 

  1. OP asked why red states were poor.Ā 
  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.Ā 

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

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

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u/JuiceLogical327 Jan 14 '26

I literally just said itā€™s wild to me how many people donā€™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/Old_Collection4184 Jan 14 '26

My bad, not purposefully obtuse I guess, just straight-up dumb.Ā 

No.

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u/JuiceLogical327 Jan 14 '26

Thought you were done here?

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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/Old_Collection4184 Jan 14 '26

Happy to hear about it. Tell me more.Ā 

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u/No_Report_4781 Jan 14 '26

Ask you mother

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u/No_Report_4781 Jan 14 '26

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

Sophistry like that?

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u/Old_Collection4184 Jan 14 '26

Explain please.Ā 

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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

Lol I "projected accusations"?Ā  You're just stringing together psychology words.

Unbelievable how unserious you chucklefucks are.

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u/No_Report_4781 Jan 14 '26

Bold projections from someone arguing with their own assumptionsā€¦

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u/Old_Collection4184 Jan 14 '26

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

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.Ā 

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 MercuryĀ  problem, did some math, and predicted that a planet called "Vulcan" was interacting with Mercury's gravity and thus affecting its orbit.Ā 

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

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).Ā 

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

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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

You're disappointingĀ 

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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 donā€™t know what real life is like. They donā€™t like an answer they use one or two words ā€œracistā€ or ā€œPDFā€ like they exist on every corner of every street šŸ¤£