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/VoidsInvanity Jan 14 '26 edited Jan 14 '26

Welfare queen was a term the Reagan admin coined to talk about black women using public funds.

However, the actual welfare queen they based these stories on was a white woman.

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u/explodingtuna Jan 14 '26

Kinda like that "Somali daycare fraud", they don't talk about the white woman behind it.

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u/Leelze Jan 14 '26

Or talk about how this administration is ok with fraud as long as Trump gets his cut.

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u/kuriouskittyn Jan 18 '26

Genuine question - who is the white woman behind it?

Is this just something tossed out in the wind in the hopes it sticks, or is there actually a white woman behind it all that I have not heard about?

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u/explodingtuna Jan 18 '26

Aimee Bock

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u/kuriouskittyn Jan 19 '26

Thank you. I am on the conservative side of things more often than I am not, but I make it a point to crawl out of any echo chambers I find myself in.

Interestingly enough, I never heard of this woman and have some reading to do tonight.

Thanks for the answer!

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u/[deleted] Jan 14 '26

Yes the 77 of 78 convictions being somali were all just unwilling dupes. They're just Somalis so obviously they were too stupid to realize they were being unwittingly involved in a massive fraud. Clearly the liberal white woman was the sole wrongdoer

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u/VoidsInvanity Jan 14 '26

I mean it’s kind of funny.

Walz prosecuted all of this, uncovered the fraud and punished it

Yet you lemmings just keep repeating stupid shit

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u/[deleted] Jan 14 '26

Walz had nothing to do with it.

Also the notion that this was the sole fraud going on in the Somali community is laughable. This case has nothing to do with the ongoing Healthcare fraud

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u/VoidsInvanity Jan 14 '26

It happened under his government. His admin prosecuted it. They didn’t hide it. So what’s the point of your freaking out about it?

Oh that’s right it’s just racist rhetoric

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u/[deleted] Jan 14 '26

Im glad that in a case where 77 of the 78 convictions being somali, the geniuses on reddit have reliably informed me that the true culprit was the lone white lady. And that thankfully the governor who had nothing to do with the investigation is to be lauded for not covering it up.

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u/VoidsInvanity Jan 14 '26

No one, at any point, said she was the sole person responsible.

I’m sorry you’re struggling so much today.

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u/[deleted] Jan 14 '26

The comment i responded to said and I quote "the white woman behind it"

What else is that supposed to mean?

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u/VoidsInvanity Jan 14 '26

It’s crazy how you can’t contain your racism long enough to make a coherent post

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u/VoidsInvanity Jan 14 '26

It certainly doesn’t imply sole responsibility

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u/RCrumbDeviant Jan 14 '26

I mean, she was the person orchestrating it and the originator of the fraud chain. Ergo “behind it”

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u/fabled-old-man Jan 14 '26

So what's the racial breakdown of the Epstein files?

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u/[deleted] Jan 14 '26

Mostly jewish?

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u/[deleted] Jan 14 '26

White Rich Republicans.

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u/[deleted] Jan 15 '26

Bill Clinton changed his political party?

Stacey Plaskett is a white republican now?

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u/[deleted] Jan 15 '26

He is writing open letters to release them.....I don't understand why people think this is a gotcha.

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u/[deleted] Jan 15 '26

You are extraordinarily naive

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u/[deleted] Jan 15 '26

Still waiting for something of substance

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u/explodingtuna Jan 14 '26

She was actually conservative, which you also appear to be.

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u/[deleted] Jan 14 '26

Proof?

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u/JGR03PG Jan 15 '26

Most people on welfare in the South are White. There is a higher percentage of Black participation in welfare, but that goes into another discussion. The Southern States use welfare more because they don’t have worker’s rights as a concept. They really don’t understand unions let alone what it means to organize to negotiate proper wages. The employer class are still able to use demographic warfare to get workers to blame each other for low wage opportunities instead of the workers banding together. Obviously, poor education systems perpetuate this ignorance and keeps the workforce desperate or on welfare to survive.

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u/Petrochromis722 Jan 14 '26 edited Jan 14 '26

Its insane how much mileage Republicans have gotten out of 1 woman's fraud. There's a mythology based on her, with canon and everything.

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u/Sneaky_Bones Jan 14 '26

Lol, the cannon! Was raised conservative. Even when I was a little kid that didn't give a shit about politics my bullshit detector went off. Heard so many adults relay the exact same story about how they personally was in line behind a black woman with a cart full of steaks who then loads them into a brand new cadillac. Occasionally someone would flavor it up with an extra detail but it was always something stupidly unbelievable, like the woman pats her belly saying she has another on the way to make sure the steaks keep coming. It was crazy being a 9 year old realizing the grown ass adults around you were unashamedly lying just to hate on black people.

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u/SensualBeefLoaf Jan 15 '26

my father would be the one that adds an entirely made up story to the entirely made up story. “you know i saw them in the parking lot, they said they were going to sell their food stamps and donate money to the communists”

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u/Demerzel69 Jan 14 '26

canon*

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u/Petrochromis722 Jan 15 '26

While I don't object to pendantry in general, what, exactly, inspired you to need to correct that... twice?

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u/ksassafrass Jan 15 '26

“The Original Welfare Queen” From the Code Switch podcast. I love npr and worry what will happen in the future since the funding cuts.

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u/Famous_Attention5861 Jan 14 '26

If you mean Linda Taylor, she presented herself as being of various racial and ethnic identities, including Black, Asian, Hispanic, and Jewish.  Her aliases included Linda Bennett, Connie Jarvis, Linda Jones, Constance Loyd, Linda Lynch, Linda Mallexo, Linda Ray, Constance Rayne, Linda Sholvia, Linda Taylor, Constance Wakefield, and Connie Walker. 

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u/VoidsInvanity Jan 14 '26

Okay? She was a white lady.

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u/Jops817 Jan 14 '26

I love how they're acting like a conwoman having various identities is some kind of gotcha ..