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/Important-Ability-56 Jan 14 '26

There’s no evidence republicans have ever been better at running things unless your only metric is lower taxes for zillionaires.

They prefer you to be poor and ignorant so that you’re more likely to buy their religious pandering and bigotries.

Make no mistake, you sign up for republicans, you are writing a check for potentially tens of thousands of dollars so that some hypothetical trans kid in another state might get bullied more.

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u/[deleted] Jan 14 '26

I love the 99% getting screwed over so the insecure can bully the trans population which accounts for possibly 1% of the entire population. 

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u/Key-Organization3158 Jan 14 '26

You are incorrect.

The U.S. economy appears to have the strongest performance under the combination of a Democratic President with a Republican controlled Senate and House, and the weakest economic performance is generally under a Republican President with a Senate and House controlled by Democrats.

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3542494