Ten Richest States: Massachusetts - Blue Washington - Blue California - Blue Colorado - Red Maryland - Blue New Jersey - Blue Connecticut - Blue Virginia - Red Delaware - Blue New York - Blue
Ten Poorest States: West Virginia - Red Mississippi - Red Arkansas - Red Alabama - Red Wyoming - Red Louisiana - Red North Dakota - Red South Dakota - Red Kentucky - Red South Carolina - Red
Why are eight of the ten richest states (income of its citizens, not the state government) liberal, and all ten of the poorest conservative?
2006-07-06T13:28:12Z
This is calcualted by average income, so size of state doesn't matter (Delaware, anyone?).
Here's the list: http://www.neweconomyindex.org/states/2002/overall_rank.html
DEEJay2006-07-06T13:08:29Z
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Because there are few true conservatives in office. This is a new breed of Republicans now and they don't care about the same issues their voters care for, they just say they do. They get them to vote by the 3 G's (Gays) (Guns) (God).
I don't think it has anything to do with being liberal or conservative. The states that you mention as being richest have more people and naturally they are going to have a higher income per capita because there are more of them. The ten poorest states have less people so the income level is not going to be any where close to the rich states. New York and California are huge states with lots of people. It has nothing to do with liberal or conservative...
The answer to a question would be very complicated, given that the more urbanized states vote Democratic more and the more urbanized areas within rural states vote Democratic more. Also, the urbanized areas are multicultural. Within those urbanized areas, the whites tend to vote Republican more. The Republicans appeal to the traditional values of whites and agricultural or other rural types of occupations. The Democrats appeal to people of different races, educators, progressive thinkers. There are more of these people in the cities. For example, Las Vegas doesn't vote the same as most of Nevada. Austin doesn't vote the same as most of Texas.
Interesting point. Even more interesting that liberals have no educated response to your point, and they're saying poor is synonymous with uneducated. Must be some of the poorest people in the world on here trying to answer questions.
The promise of low wages, cheap housing, bigotry and self determination to believe they live in the greatest country on earth as a pauper. At least they are free to choose where they live.