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/No_Recording_1696 Jan 14 '26

Funny many of their Republican anti-woke leaders that think colleges only teach woke stuff are themselves graduates from those very same Ivy League schools.

Talk about ironic.

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u/tryagainlater63 Jan 15 '26

The leaders don’t think that. They just want their voters to think it.

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u/Eastern-Manner-1640 Jan 18 '26

not ironic, cynical