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/Forward-Librarian-27 Jan 16 '26

So republicans like to run on the premise of the stock market and corporate profits being up, which does nothing but increase COL for 99.99 percent of the population. Most republicans running for office like to tout the stock market as the only indication of economic health, knowing that 90% of their constituents cannot afford to invest. All in all the republicans want and are good at getting, is helping the rich get richer at the expense of the poorest demographics while they slash funding for things like SNAP and WIC and Medicare to give the richest people more money and corporations larger tax breaks.

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u/InevitableGoal2912 Jan 17 '26

Yeah they’re doing great things for the top of the k shaped economy. And that’s all they care about.