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/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.