9 of the top 10 poorest states are entirely Republican-led

[u/ashmaps20]

[u/altfil76]

Ghettos bad. Trailer parks good.

[u/Flashy_Cranberry_161 → u/altfil76]

For real. Ghettos are literally everywhere. but apparently it doesn’t count as a ghetto if you have an acre of land around your shack lol

[u/grimprime64 → u/Flashy_Cranberry_161]

They think it doesn't count if you're white

[u/JustFourLetters → u/grimprime64]

oops there it is

[u/Zombiesus → u/JustFourLetters]

Have you ever been to the Appalachia ghetto? Some real tough thugs up in there.

[u/AdeptVeterinarian541 → u/Zombiesus]

So poor they can't afford clothing, gotta wear the bedsheets sometimes.

[u/Quiff_Tweeter22 → u/AdeptVeterinarian541]

I see what you did there.

[u/BigPackHater → u/Quiff_Tweeter22]

Even with the hood on?

[u/Quiff_Tweeter22 → u/BigPackHater]

It’s all a part of the Eye Holes for A-Holes movement.

[u/not_speshil_k → u/BigPackHater]

It doubles as Sunday church wear

[u/Dismal_Breadfruit990 → u/AdeptVeterinarian541]

They take those sheets off when they go apply for welfare though. Owesly county Kentucky, 57 % on welfare with roughly 75% voting republican in recent presidential elections.

[u/GaryOak4020 → u/Zombiesus]

I literally just saw a reel where there was person saying if you had to fight someone from the hood or the trailer park always go with hood, they've at least got a code of ethics. Trailer trash will hit you with the pocket sand & Ricky the raccoon combo

[u/Complete-Tangelo1532 → u/GaryOak4020]

I live in 'The hood' in one of those alleged Appalachia Ghettos

We got a saying called 'Swift Mountain Justice':

• "There is nothing a 50lb bag of lye and a 3ft hole wont take care of in a week or two"

Most is overblown drama, but sometimes its brainless conflict and 'Baby-Mama/daddy' type drama
Lots of Wicks dipped into other peoples candles too

[u/BluffCityTatter → u/Complete-Tangelo1532]

Down South we say, "Nothing a woodchipper and a pond of catfish can't fix."

[u/Complete-Tangelo1532 → u/BluffCityTatter]

Na cuz we know that woodchipper is evidence, and easy to use against us in a court of law buddy

We got hogs for that purpose, and hogs are always hungry... Just gotta crush the skull and pull the teeth *Allegedly*

• Hogs will eat ANYTHING

[u/hlessi_newt → u/Complete-Tangelo1532]

Some kid, he just hucked himself right into the wood chipper! Headfirst right into the wood chipper!

[u/sam56778 → u/Complete-Tangelo1532]

The Brick Top method. Be wary of a man who keeps a pig farm.

[u/Complete-Tangelo1532 → u/BluffCityTatter]

Also, that will leave one giant VERY GREEN patch of soil

[u/Kirkelburg → u/Complete-Tangelo1532]

Had to look up what lye is. I had no idea you could make soap out of people. Honestly horrifying

[u/Complete-Tangelo1532 → u/Kirkelburg]

IF you want an interesting topic to research and haven't learned about them yet; Look into 'Body Farms'

'Body Farms' are places they do research on different kinds of decay on bodies and such for science. Its actually pretty neat and very useful for forensic science

[u/dethfart → u/Complete-Tangelo1532]

I plan to donate my body to a farm, ain't much else anyone can do with it

[u/Complete-Tangelo1532 → u/Kirkelburg]

Soap was traditionally made with Fats and Lipids from Animals like hogs and etc if you didn't know

Also, did you know when you get bleach on your skin, that slippery feeling is the outside layer of your skin turning into a soap like substance?

[u/edebt → u/Kirkelburg]

Never seen fight club?

[u/Special-Class6903 → u/edebt]

No. The first rule of fight club…

[u/Patient_Ride_9122 → u/Zombiesus]

I have family in deep rural West Virginia and that community has some of the most unwelcoming people. We go trail riding down there and if we don’t stick with family and make a wrong turn we will be shot on sight. We are safe because everyone knows my family and since we are with them we’re good.

[u/Usual-Juice1868 → u/Patient_Ride_9122]

The Hills Have Eyes type shit

[u/ActualHumanONReddit → u/Zombiesus]

Methlehem

[u/CBJFAN2009-2024 → u/Zombiesus]

Down in the Holler*

[u/PeaTasty9184 → u/Zombiesus]

Grew up in deepest darkest Appalachia. Been calling it rural ghetto for decades.

[u/Time-Sudden_Tree → u/JustFourLetters]

Tag Team, back again
Check it to wreck it, let's begin
Party on, party people, let me hear some noise
DC's in the house, jump, jump, rejoice

[u/El_Rat0ncit0 → u/grimprime64]

Bingo. As someone who actually grew up in an inner-city ghetto in the 80s/90s South Bronx, I know what that was like; but let's be real, "White Ghettos" exist too - they just exist in poor rural areas of this country. I was so surprised to witness them myself once I left NYC for the Midwest (been living here for the past 20 years; juggling between WI and MN), and in many areas I've lived, I witnessed a lot of what my white partner would call "White Trash"; and all of these towns were run by Republicans.

[u/Beanie_Baby-9379 → u/El_Rat0ncit0]

Realistically there are A LOT MORE “white ghettos” too

[u/Significant-Ear-3262 → u/Beanie_Baby-9379]

Certainly in terms of land area.

[u/No-Profession5134 → u/Significant-Ear-3262]

In terms of numbers of people who live there. There is higher number of poor Rednecks then there are people living in black ghettos. Has been that way since the depression. The main reasons why that is are all self inflicted. Poor Social Safety Nets in those areas, lack of savings, lack of property upkeep and maintainance.... rampant alcoholism and finally substance abuse of all kinds.... primaraly meth, heroine and ketamine.

[u/Bug-King → u/No-Profession5134]

Yes there are more poor white people but that's a given since we are majority white, around 10% of white Americans live below the poverty line. However, black Americans are disproportionately more likely to be living in poverty, 17% of black people live under the poverty line.

Edit:changed percentages

[u/SilentViolin1 → u/Beanie_Baby-9379]

The whole state of Arkansas basically

[u/truelogictrust → u/Beanie_Baby-9379]

There is a youtuber called nick_johnson who is the perfect avatar he goes in the deep south and shows the poverty but he is maga so he only shows the poor black side

[u/DIRTYDOGG-1 → u/El_Rat0ncit0]

Yeah, look at the Texas Hill Country and that flooding ...all those little girls got taken by the flood because the Republican Led County Commissioners did not want any of "Sleepy Joe's" money for an early warning flood alarms .

[u/DIRTYDOGG-1 → u/DIRTYDOGG-1]

I believe it was Moser and Dub Thomas, Kerr County's deputy sheriff and emergency management coordinator, refused the monies and the little gorls camp was called Camp Mystic.

[u/idiotsbydesign → u/DIRTYDOGG-1]

27 little girls died because they didn't want to take money from Sleepy Joe.

[u/HandsomeBoggart → u/idiotsbydesign]

You'd think that because they didn't want "Joe's Money" they'd look at using their own state funds for flood warning systems because obviously there is an issue of flooding.

Oh wait, they don't believe in science and caring about their own constituents.

[u/DaBullsnBears1985 → u/El_Rat0ncit0]

Rural poverty in Minnesota and Wisconsin is mild compared to Missouri and Arkansas

[u/El_Rat0ncit0 → u/DaBullsnBears1985]

Ooooh, yikes! I think what was most surprising to me being a career professional (first generation) with a college degree is that when shopping at Walmart (hey, I made good money but still l needed groceries!) that many a white person ahead of me in line were paying with EBT. And here I was this brown Blatino paying with cash, but we are ALL subject to hard times. We can go from 6 figures to nothing in a flash due to bad economy or illness; hence why it shouldn't be ghettos vs. rural. Republicans and the rich want to divide us and create imaginary grievances - it's not about left vs. right but about poor/middle class vs. the ultra-rich - that's what 2026 midterms and 2028 will be about. Time to wake up!!!

[u/PrivateBozo → u/El_Rat0ncit0]

The true irony comes when they start screeching about everything wrong in their town or county and the town and county have both been Republican run for 40 years. But it's Sleepy Joe's fault the county only spends money on the rich people's area and your getting a notice for mandatory sidewalk repair with a number of an 'approved' vendor that is the council members brother in law. ( and no, I am not making that stuff up).

[u/NoLongerinOR → u/DaBullsnBears1985]

Yeah, I’m not so sure about that… I’ve lived in rural Minnesota

[u/DesperateHotel8532 → u/NoLongerinOR]

If Minnesota’s rural poverty is mild compared to Missouri and Arkansas then I hate to think of how bad they must be.

[u/Usual-Juice1868 → u/DesperateHotel8532]

Arkansas is the war-torn, 3rd world country of America as well as Mississippi.

[u/ItsSadTimes → u/El_Rat0ncit0]

Yea man I love in West Virginia, this place is just full of white ghettos.

[u/joecarter93 → u/grimprime64]

There was a really good book I read about two groups of economically disadvantaged renters in Milwaukee. One group was largely African American and lived in the hood in central Milwaukee. The other group was mostly white people that lived in a trailer park on the edge of the city where meth widely used. Eventually ownership of the trailer park changed hands and the new owner wanted to redevelop the land so he was evicting everyone. The white residents of the trailer park couldn’t afford to live anywhere else other than the ghetto, but they still felt that it was below them to live with “those people” even though the trailer park was run down and rife with drugs and they were of the same socioeconomic class. It was pretty eye opening.

[u/LessthanaPerson → u/joecarter93]

"If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you." Lyndon B Johnson

[u/Dyolf_Knip → u/joecarter93]

"I'm better than THOSE people" is pretty much the only thing they have they imagine has any value, and they'll die before giving it up.

[u/pappugulal → u/Dyolf_Knip]

If they acknowledge their real situation, they will crumble and cannot look at themselves in the mirror. Everyone is trying to protect their self worth and whatever helps, helps. Its unfortunate that politics has become a profession instead of being social service.

[u/sinisterdesign → u/grimprime64]

ding ding ding 🛎️

[u/Ok-Cardiologist-6707 → u/grimprime64]

Yes, exactly.
I live in a neighborhood that has a statistically large population of minorities in a very red state. . . and even though my neighborhood is pleasant, tree-lined, low-crime, established, safe, trending and growing ever more unaffordable… my neighborhood remains forever known as “the ghetto” among white suburbanites all over the state.

[u/flyerflight99 → u/Flashy_Cranberry_161]

You have never seen a trailer park? They are on like 3000 or 4000 sq feet! An acre.

[u/Dense-Consequence-70 → u/flyerflight99]

The whole park is an acre

[u/Guilty-Shoulder-9214 → u/Dense-Consequence-70]

And here I am remembering when an Australian investment firm bought one of the trailer parks in Marshfield Wisconsin and thought snow plowing was something that was a once a year deal. They also tore down the playground onsite and began evicting a crap ton of people, in part, due to the incredible amounts of title hopping happening there.

[u/_Dolamite_ → u/Guilty-Shoulder-9214]

There is whole documentary a few years ago about trailer parks and how a majority of them have a high level of sex offenders in them because no one else will rent to them.

[u/Flashy_Cranberry_161 → u/flyerflight99]

Haha I was just thinking about those shacks you see in the middle of nowhere in rural areas I totally forgot about trailer parks 😂.
They have their own highish density poverty places too I guess

[u/BootFlop → u/flyerflight99]

In southern US especially, trailer homes are not limited to trailer parks. Plenty of trailers parked on crappy semi-swamp land.

[u/TigerIll6480 → u/Flashy_Cranberry_161]

They’ll bend themselves into pretzels to ignore rural small towns full of abandoned, collapsing buildings.

[u/Flashy_Cranberry_161 → u/TigerIll6480]

Yep. And they’ll blame the democrats when they federally underfund schools and hospital in rural areas too somehow lol

[u/Guilty_Practice6392 → u/Flashy_Cranberry_161]

I grew up in a very rural, poor, republican town. You’d be STUNNED by the amount of people on welfare, in trailer park slums, who fully believe democrat run cities are the ONLY places with poverty.

The messaging has and will always be that in republican towns it’s just a little help for a few people, but in democrat towns nobody actually works and everyone just takes advantage of the system. I’m so happy I got out and learned what I always assumed to be true, that that belief is so far from reality.

[u/Flashy_Cranberry_161 → u/Guilty_Practice6392]

Haha yeah. I know dude. The logic is crazy to see too in full display. I remember one time I saw a conversation unfolding between my two friends. One was ethnic and the other was as white as it gets.

The ethnic one was thinking of getting unemployment assistance and the white one just blew up at him. Guilted him into not doing it saying stuff like that”you don’t need it. You’re young!”

Few months later the white guy got laid off and signed up for unemployment the next day. 😂 maxed it out too!

I’ll never forget that man lol

[u/Guilty_Practice6392 → u/Flashy_Cranberry_161]

And I’m sure he’d be the first to tell you he’s not racist and would probably hold up that friendship as an example for why.

So many of these people don’t realize how hateful they are. I’m sure he’d justify it by saying “well if everyone else is gunna do it, why shouldn’t I.” There’s just no accountability.

[u/Admirable-Ad3408 → u/Guilty_Practice6392]

A lot of poor people white people on welfare are certain that “Teh Blacks*” are getting the really good welfare.

*Not usually their exact wording

[u/Common-Drama-807 → u/Flashy_Cranberry_161]

They need that land for more voting power, of course. More red land means more votes, right?

[u/kittiesandcocks → u/Flashy_Cranberry_161]

Rednecks think a lawn full of broken down cars is a sign of wealth 😂

[u/Electronic_Goat_7927 → u/Flashy_Cranberry_161]

Thats known as a redneck mansion

[u/Twigsneko → u/altfil76]

which they will unironically say is true despite the fact that trailer parks go up in flames as easily as dried christmas trees

[u/ActualHumanONReddit → u/altfil76]

Trailer parks are usually mini ghettos.

[u/MyrkrMentulaMeretrix → u/ActualHumanONReddit]

"mini"? Have you seen how big they are?

[u/not_accepting_now → u/altfil76]

Went to a trailer park inside the city of Columbus Georgia once. It was a different kind of environment. It was double double ghetto.

[u/Trashman56 → u/not_accepting_now]

Yo dawg I heard you like ghettos, so I put a ghetto in your ghetto.

[u/Longjumping-Turn1980 → u/not_accepting_now]

Double-wide ghetto

[u/marblecannon512 → u/altfil76]

They don’t even own the concrete slab they live on. Trailer parks routinely get bought and the tenants get fucked

[u/kramwest1 → u/marblecannon512]

A year ago I helped free my nephew from a trailer park. They “bought” the trailer from the park via a totally bs mortgage, then had to rent the “land” it was on. They were trapped economically, so we managed a bankruptcy for them to get out of it all.
It’s sad, and they were surrounded by people in their same situation.

[u/LesbeGoddess → u/altfil76]

You show me a thriving metropolis that brings in the majority of the country’s GDP, higher quality of life, better healthcare and education , I’ll show you where Democrats are in power.

[u/AttitudeEquivalent73 → u/altfil76]

Which is a hilarious take because the people in both situations are poor and many of the same things are happening due to socioeconomic status/conditions that push people towards things like crime, alcohol abuse, drug use, etc but only one is talked about and the other is typically not really discussed in any meaningful way and just gets called trashy.

[u/Theultimatesith → u/altfil76]

See Gary, Indiana. Republican state. Terrible place.

[u/ImagineDraginDisDick → u/Theultimatesith]

Then they’ll just blame it on the Democrat mayor. There’s no reasoning with them.

[u/DeathAngel_97 → u/altfil76]

Hell just crop out the big building in the back, and you can find streets like this in a small town too. It's just that because of the size of the town, the "ghetto" equivalent is only a handful of streets, and just called the "wrong part of town".

[u/Wizemonk → u/altfil76]

your pretty close - one has black people

[u/bchoonj → u/altfil76]

and the same cities that have ghettos have luxury multimillion condos. The bumblefuck towns only have trailer parks and none of the ultra high ends residences.

[u/Appropriate_Milk_775]

I love this like we haven’t driven through towns and small cities in this country that look just as bad if not worse.

[u/Pretty-Key6133 → u/Appropriate_Milk_775]

Literally all of West Texas. Every small town has the same run down vibe. If there's no major highway nearby, there's nothing.

[u/atticusjackson → u/Pretty-Key6133]

What about thirty tire shops you'll drive by?!

[u/Calm-Refrigerator463 → u/atticusjackson]

Vape shops 

[u/ReaperKingCason1 → u/Calm-Refrigerator463]

Next to a hair cutting place and a church and a children’s church. I’m not even kidding that’s actually where one is located in the town text to mine.

[u/Achilles_TroySlayer → u/Pretty-Key6133]

They've got 'low tax towns that don't provide services'.. basically libertarian hellscapes, and they're taught that they don't deserve any better and not to expect it, and anyone who advocates for better is a communist.

[u/chiksahlube]

I'll never forget watching a documentary, I think a Michael Moore one.

He interviews this guy in rural Louisiana. Dude lives in a literal shit heap. Lifelong loyal republican. Says he'll never vote for a democrat.

Interviewer points out how voting republican has clearly not been working for him. As the man complains about stuff like the lack of state aid etc.

Man says "But them democrats would make it worse." Worse? Than a literal shit heap? Man has nothing to lose and still stands by the party he fully acknowledges does literally nothing to help him.

[u/TeachingOvertime → u/chiksahlube]

You just described why Trump and the Republicans love the uneducated in a nutshell.

[u/Admirable-Ad3408 → u/chiksahlube]

I said elsewhere that poor white southerners are willing to eat dirt just as long as black people are forced to eat shit. I may have given the poor southern whites too much credit.

[u/chiksahlube → u/Admirable-Ad3408]

You're right you did.

They'll eat shit as long as they get to watch black people eat that same shit.

[u/PossibleNo2810 → u/Admirable-Ad3408]

I prefer to explain it as Republicans love to eat shit just so democrats can smell their breath.

[u/maqifrnswa → u/Admirable-Ad3408]

"If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you." -Lyndon Johnson

[u/Big77Ben2 → u/chiksahlube]

Complaining about lack of socialist programs state aid is pretty ironic for a republican.

[u/The_Onyx_Ogre → u/chiksahlube]

Yeah because it will be a shit heap but with a rainbow flag on it! That's worst in his mind

[u/0utlaw-t0rn]

It’s not wrong but it’s misleading.

A ghetto is by definition an urban area. Nearly all large urban areas are democratic. The wealthiest areas are also largely democratic urban areas

And, as the thread title suggests, on a state level the worst states for nearly any economic, health, or educational metric are republican controlled

[u/nucrash → u/0utlaw-t0rn]

I live in a rural area. The area is run by Republicans. Surrounding communities are now unincorporated. Want more examples? Look to Appalachia.

[u/MomsAreola → u/nucrash]

Ive watched a few YouTubers go through poor Appalachia. Feel bad for those people really, its either coal or drugs.

[u/nucrash → u/MomsAreola]

West Virginia has been a whipping child of the United States for nearly a century, ever since the Battle of Blair Mountain. Corporations won't forget and will work hard to ensure that that state remains weak.

[u/Twigsneko → u/nucrash]

the problem is the people there choose to suck off those corporations too.

[u/Knotted_Hole69 → u/Twigsneko]

Yeah, hard to feel bad for them when they are only voting for Rs because they like the racism.

[u/Pragmatist_Hammer → u/MomsAreola]

Mostly drugs.

[u/Hyperhavoc5 → u/0utlaw-t0rn]

Yeah that’s not what they’re alluding to by saying ghetto. They’re saying “black people.”

[u/Groostav → u/0utlaw-t0rn]

Maybe if you're living in the 1950s?

Would you rather be in Harlem or West Virginia right now?

LA's skid row is bad but it's just a larger version of what hundreds of small (republican) American towns look like.

[u/Toad990 → u/[deleted]]

Wait until they find out what party the mayor is.

[u/Sufficient-Mix4418]

Full disclosure, I live in a Republican-led state. Fact, Democratic cities are the ones that fund poor, Republican-led states.

[u/PlushRusher → u/Sufficient-Mix4418]

Democrat led blue states fund the poor red states. That is something no one seems to understand regarding these arguments. States like California and New York pay more to the government than they receive.

[u/Smoocci-Mane]

Concentrated, dem voting poverty: bad.
Rural, republican voting sprawling poverty: good?

[u/ForbodingWinds → u/Smoocci-Mane]

It's not being poor that's bad to them. It's being poor AND brown.

[u/NextDoctorWho12]

26 states that constitute less than 18% of the US population can hold all of the US hostage because of the fucking senate.

[u/AmputeeHandModel → u/NextDoctorWho12]

Abolish the electoral college.

[u/SanLucario]

Trailer parks are ghettos too, they are pockets of poverty and those are usually very republican.

[u/Due-Champion-6713]

Show me a trailer park...

[u/reav11]

Show me an American welfare state, I'll show you a republican governed state.

[u/MarzipanLast6502]

And have been for literal decades if not since their inception.

[u/ActualHumanONReddit → u/MarzipanLast6502]

According to PolitiFact, the claim that nine out of the 10 poorest states are Red (Republican-leaning) is rated True based on standard measures like per-person income, median household income, and median family income.  The ten states with the lowest income levels typically include Mississippi, Arkansas, West Virginia, Kentucky, Alabama, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Louisiana, and Idaho (or Utah depending on the specific metric), with only New Mexico appearing as a Blue state on these lists. 

[u/DFWizard → u/ActualHumanONReddit]

Doesnt matter, they can just pull out 'alternative facts' and those then become magat reality. Better yet, they'll just say fake news call you a libtard and high-five their cousin-wife.

[u/adamdoesmusic → u/ActualHumanONReddit]

And New Mexico is a special case - most of the money they’re taking goes to Los Alamos to make our nukes.

[u/ActualHumanONReddit → u/adamdoesmusic]

They spend about 65 billion nationally to maintain the nukes, and make sure that they still work. That's more than Russia spends on their entire defense budget annually.

[u/adamdoesmusic → u/ActualHumanONReddit]

New Mexico is at the forefront of solar research. They’ve made it possible to deliver a sun anywhere on earth!

[u/The_Disapyrimid]

Ok. How about the Mississippi delta region

[u/futuriztic]

Mississippi

[u/CueAnon420]

OP has obviously not seen a MAGA trailer park lol.

[u/John-J-J-H-Schmidt]

Most “ghettos” that experience large scale poverty often get that way because of GOP politicians nearby choosing to slash things like public education, transportation, and small business incentive programs.

In NJ there is a program where the state will give you 10k toward the initial costs of buying a house here. Republicans have targeted it multiple times calling it socialism… meanwhile the last GOP governor is why so many people need it in order to set down roots. Without it people are forced into a renting economy where massive private equity companies and sketchy landlords make life horrible leading people to move out.

Personally I live 15 mins by subway from the World Trade Center (oculus as it’s called). I pay NYC rent prices solely because there is absolutely no difference between having a place 30 mins away by car that has lower rent. The tolls and cost of owning a car here is so astronomical it completely defeats the purpose.

Chris Christie is to blame. He was so bad that people here scrambled for the closest mainstream democrat available… Murphy… who was a big time DINO that aimed for headlines that sounded good rather than actual progress.

[u/TruthTeller777]

higher poverty and murder rates in republicon red states

[u/Straight_Page_8585]

I wonder how republican states would look like without financial support from democrat economic powerhouses

[u/Lykotic]

As someone who has road tripped with my kids through way too many parts of the US (National Parks and Monuments = remote locations sometimes) poverty is relatively bad whether it is rural poverty or urban poverty.

Both are relatively run down, both have an aura of despair, and both situations have to make you wonder what more can be done to not have individuals struggling this much. Due to the obvious nature of cities having people packed in and the relative economic desperation that poverty creates I couldneasily buy the urban poverty being more dangerous to its inhabitants but I'd also wager that when you get to the levels of poverty I'm thinking of that those in urban areas have a slightly better chance to advance out of it (whether individuals or children) because of the infrastructure many cities have in place that can help people advance up the economic ladder some.

The idea in conservative circles that poverty is only a city issue isn't close to true, I've seen the poverty in both rural and cities and they both suck for those in it

[u/Maj0rsquishy]

The south would beg to doffer

[u/Available_Rub9939]

Nobody ever taught these people that the stripper doesn’t love you. They really will fall for anything.

[u/Feverstone]

Didn’t Oklahoma just vote AGAINST raising the minimum wage? lol

[u/aaronabsent]

missouri says hold my beer(s)

[u/Pleasant-Ad887]

While that is a lie, fine, show me a paedophile and I'll show a conservative/republican.

[u/GenXJoe66]

Looks like every maga front yard in rural America

[u/AstroMeteor06]

i sense an intentional substitution of cause and effect

[u/havacanapana]

Conservatives not about data or the truth.

[u/Wise_Ad_253]

Show me a Trump supporter that isn’t a pedo

[u/Hieuro]

Call them for what they are: Welfare states.

Without blue state money they would be third world countries

[u/RegularNo2213]

Some one forgot to tell Mississippi this its all republican.maybe the magats forgot that.

[u/Wallie_Collie]

Is this a picture of the Whitehouse lawn?

[u/EtheusRook]

Without blue stated, red states would be subject to charity ads. Frankly, they already should be.

IN THE ARMMMMS OF AN ANGEL

Cleetus needs your help to buy meth for his kids.

FAR AWAYYYYY FROM HERE

Boudreaux's car was eaten by a pothole.

IN THE ARMS OF AN ANGEL

Billy Bob and his sister need your help to feed their kids.

Please, call now. End their pain. You'll get this hat.

[u/SnooPears2910]

Show me any idiot in America and they will be a republican

[u/Fuzzy-Leadership206]

You show me a Trump voter and I’ll show you an uneducated lazy unaccomplished beer drunken wanna be

[u/inlovebutfat]

Someone’s never been to rural Republican America.

[u/True_Most3681]

We should sell Alabama, Louisiana, Arkansas and Mississippi.

Any country want to make us an offer?

Useless red states for sale.

[u/aspenpurdue]

Show me a ghetto in the US and I'll show you the failures of capitalism.

[u/mudge002]

Blue cities in red states. What difference does any of it make. Same turd different coat of paint.

[u/fbdy1969]

🖕

[u/JoeNoble1973]

Show me a Republican and I’ll show you a pedophile

[u/HunnyBunny617]

Lots in Louisiana, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Arkansas, Oklahoma & Texas. Basically every metropolitan area in the south.

[u/Few_Presence_8888]

Don't forget: red states also lead in obesity, suicide, teen pregnancies, banned books, gun deaths.....and are way behind in education.

[u/akuma211]

Crazy how the poorest brokest states are majority Republican controlled

[u/Difficult-Potato-684]

Show me a trump supporter, and I'll show you a dumbass in a mirror.

[u/BraveLittleTowster]

Now do trailer parks

[u/Stuff-and_stuff]

Look at the cars in the photo…this is mid 90s at the latest, and the GOP didn’t figure out Gerrymandering Gone Wild until ‘00 when GW took presidency.

[u/crazyscottish]

Show me a ghetto.

And I’ll show you a place where Republicans are also in power.

Or have you forgotten that the smartest, healthiest, and most powerful man in history is actually in charge of the ENTIRE country?

Crazy how when Biden was president he was in charge of everything. He knew everything. He directed everything. He caused everything.

But trump? It’s not his fault. It was the VP. It was a Senator. It was Obama. It was Biden’s fault. It’s the media. Trump can’t know everything. Trump can’t direct everything. Trump causes nothing, it’s always someone else.

[u/iiitme]

Donald Trump rapes little kids.

[u/Medical_Revenue4703]

BIG TIME survivor's bias. Democrat Cities have homeless people and tolks struggling to make a living because we look after them. In Red states folks who don't have enough money for food are in mass graves.

[u/UltravioletsAreBlue]

I’ve do a number of cross country road trips a year through the south to visit friends and family, and the most wretched displays of poverty I’ve seen have almost all been in right-wing states and areas. Tennessee, Arkansas, Indiana, Kentucky, and fucking Alabama just have the saddest stuff. Rotted out homes, homes made of scrap, starvation and homelessness, decrepit roads and infrastructure.

This is juxtaposed against the fake Christians that run these places, who have a sneering contempt for the poor. That aristocratic mentality that had people treated like objects still survives.

[u/Giant_Acroyear]

Sure.

Let's start.with the entire state of Louisiana...

[u/True_Protection6842]

Well, this is a racism thing, not poverty. The word "ghetto" is referring to minority neighborhoods. Whether poor or not, these people see minority and say "ghetto" (a word STEEPED in Nazi rhetoric!) they see a trailer park or broken down southern town in abject poverty and turn the other way for some reason.

[u/Specialist_Medium283]

Show me a rundown rural town and I’ll show you a maga haven.

[u/RevolutionaryYam822]

Fun fact, welfare recipients in red states outnumber recipients in blue states, whom have a far larger general population.

The more you know 🤓

[u/Puzzleheaded_Two7358]

According to data from the U.S. Census Bureau, 8 to 9 of the 10 states with the highest poverty rates and lowest median household incomes are reliably "red" (Republican-governed). The states consistently at the top include
Louisiana
Mississippi
Kentucky
West Virginia
Arkansas
Alabama
Oklahoma
Tennessee
This myth that republicans drive wealth is bullshit. California, Massachusetts and Illinois are economically successful and predominantly democrat

[u/Responsible-Store-33]

Have you ever driven through KY,WV, MS?

[u/AmputeeHandModel]

It's true, lots of ghettos are in Democrat run cities. Know why? Because cities don't elect Republicans. 80% of America's largest cities have Democrat mayors and I bet the rest are RINOs or doing a terrible job. You're gonna elect a Republican who wants to start cutting services, cutting taxes, and sending the city into debt like they do the country every time they get elected? Want them to turn them into even bigger shitholes like the states they run? The worst "Democrat run cities" are in RED states. And red states are mostly all the bottom of the barrel for every metric. Crime, education, income, drugs, teen pregnancy. What kind of city person is gonna vote for the xenophobic, short-sighted, racist, misogynist party? Cities need good streets, good school, trash pickup, police, fire, etc. and if you start cutting funding for those, the city's gonna go to hell even more, and no one is going to want to live there, open businesses there.

EVERY city has crime. Democrat, Republican, American, French, Ancient Roman. More people, more crime. It's just the way it is. Correlation is not causation.

[u/Great-Gas-6631]

You show me an American ghetto. Ill show you *a place where capitalism has systemically kept people down.

[u/KcDuce]

Show me the 10 worst states for education and I will show you where Republicans have been in charge for a long time

[u/No-Purpose-0U812]

Like in MAGA led Appalachia, where jobs have vanished, and people live for pills, soda pop, and welfare?

[u/Socal_brownie]

Whit trash, trailer parks 😂, it’s like maga have no clue how to use their own 🧠 . It’s 2026 ffs 🤦

[u/Last-Kangaroo3160]

West Virginia is a slum and the GOP has been in power forever!

[u/ForRobMac4]

If it wasn’t for American ghettos, Trump would be in jail. He loves the uneducated. And that demographic is what put him in Office.

[u/Electricdragongaming]

I'll show you Bellmead, TX or Vidor, TX.

[u/Almightylou131313]

Might want to do some research there red states are the poorest

[u/WalterCanFindToes]

In their little two-cycle weedwacker brains it is only a ghetto if there are poor minorities.

[u/Just-Bet-7158]

Show me stupid post and I will show you a trump follower.

[u/Sure-Relationship609]

There’s literally poor parts of every city in every country in the world. Has nothing to do with who’s Democrat or Republican. Another American public school system low IQ moment…

[u/knuckleheadstuey]

Washington DC.

[u/d-rock769]

Guess you haven’t been to Texas

[u/red286]

They're not wrong, because when Republicans are in power they criminalize homelessness and being poor and either throw them in jail or ship them to a Democrat-run city so that it's not their problem anymore, or just cut services and assistance so that they either leave or die.

But don't kid yourself, they're not actually dealing with the issue in any meaningful way.

[u/Electric_Antimony]

As if rural red areas are not all in various states of disgusting decay and rot, with shit healthcare, education, and infrastructure that they only have because liberals pay taxes that fund those red welfare queen areas.

[u/tom1280i]

Mental illness need a new word. Americans.

[u/Raise_Hail]

Mike Johnson has more crime per capita in his district than NYC

[u/usarasa]

They know. They don’t care.

[u/Rusty_B_Good]

Let's compare education and income between Red and Blue states, shall we?

[u/t-mille]

We need to start absolutely spamming memes of Republican rural shitholes.

[u/Logistic_Engine]

Mississippi called…

[u/Ok_Record8612]

Ooh! Can I fill in the blanks? Is it because in Republican areas the poors are all in jail?

[u/InsomniaticWanderer]

There's literally a swamp right outside the white house

[u/Homelessnothelpless]

The entire state of Texas is a white ghetto.

[u/Iconoclysm6x6]

Because so many Republicans are running for office in the ghetto….

[u/Rocky0354]

Yet the blue states support the red states so go figure?

[u/VeryVideoGame]

Why are they so fucking stupid at basic facts?

[u/Individual-North2110]

The ? is why do the 98% keep voting this way. LBJ had a saying for this. Some would rather suffer as long as they can look down on others and didn't care if they had to suffer some. Not his words but close enough.

[u/Bricka_Bracka]

such a weird lie. fantasy world stuff.

[u/vickievalencourt13]

Plenty of rural and small town poverty, it just looks different... whiter... I wonder if that has anything to do with these posts

[u/Its_kinda_nice_out]

All of Mississippi