I'm on lemmy.ca right?

Looks around

Let me guess, they are also more religious?

Poor people are easier to manipulate. The correlation may be there, but not necessarily for the reason you think.

Something similar happens in Romania, with basically all of the poorest counties (județe) and their hometowns (municipii) in the hands of the Social Democrats. They are Social Democrats only with their name, as they love to embezzle public money instead of investing into schools, hospitals, infrastructure, and the people that are paid well are only those that are vital for them to get support. Otherwise, too little private investment exists in those places. And when things are done, the quality of the works is poor (e.g. asphalt poured straight on dirt that you can rip with your bare hand etc.)

Because Democrats are persecuting these right wing utopias. If it wasn't for Democrat meddling, Podunk, West Virginia would rival LA or Silicon Valley.

Probably someone on Joe Rogan claiming this today, just about Detroit.

I will never understand the actual meaning of 'based'.

It’s about extraction. Extract productivity. Extract funding. Extract natural resources.

The poorest counties are indigenous counties

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