From Elite Excellence to Mediocre Sameness: How Progressives Are Dumbing Down American Schools (financial, states)

[InformedConsent]

Originally Posted by Rapaport

No, bud. Intelligent people vote blue, stupid people vote red

Wishing doesn't make that true. The educational group with the largest D vs. R voters differential is those without a high school diploma. 64% of them vote for Democrats. Uneducated people DO overwhelmingly vote Democrat.

[InformedConsent]

Originally Posted by Rapaport

Top ten states with the highest percentages of impoverished population are staunchly conservative and red voting

You do realize that the cities I listed with higher poverty rates than the red states you listed are blue themselves, located within blue states, no?

Why aren't blue states eradicating their own huge poverty problems? Hmmm?

[InformedConsent]

Again, it is a FACT that the most segregated schools and the widest income gaps are in blue states. And yet, the poor and minorities keep voting for Democrats.

[Prarie State]

Originally Posted by Rapaport

Yes, and as we all know all of Chicago is inner city with slums and ghettos. Why does Manhattan vote blue?
Do you think Manhattan is filled with ghettos?

You obviously have never been outside of your own city and probably live in the outer suburbs. Keep your misinformed, ignorant opinions to yourself.




Look at all that crime and bad weather:



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[Rapaport]

And do you really believe that MOST of the New York City and Chicago is poor? Rotfl. You're hopeless. Lol

Again, how in heaven did the 11.5% of poor in Illinois outvoted the remaining 88.5% of population of that state? Rotfl How did the 14.5% of poor New Yorkers outvoted the remaining 85.5% of population there?

You realize that elections are won with percentages and not sheer numbers, don't you? Lol

Originally Posted by InformedConsent

There's a graphic that shows how different areas of the state vote:



My, my, my... look at all that red.

Illinois is very much like that, too. The blue votes are only in Chicago and just east of St. Louis. The rest of the state is red.


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[bobtn]

Originally Posted by InformedConsent

How does the poor population in Nashville outnumber the poor population in NYC?

Again, most of our country's poor live in blue states. Quite simply because most large cities are in blue states, and cities have the highest percentage of poor compared to suburban and rural. I've already posted the chart and the statistics.

The percentage is Nashville sadly was in the same bracket. PS, our rural poverty rates are very high. During the Recession, we had rural counties pass 20% U3 unemployment.

[Rapaport]

Do you realize that percentage-wise there is more poor people in the south than anywhere else?

Top ten states with the highest percentages of impoverished population are staunchly conservative and red voting:

50 Mississippi 20.1%
49 Louisiana 18.3%
48 New Mexico 17.9%
47 Alabama 16.7%
46 Texas 16.2%
45 Arkansas 15.9%
44 Oklahoma 15.6%
43 West Virginia 15.4%
42 Arizona 15.2%
40 Tennessee 15.0%

The ten states with the lowest percentages of the poor are almost all blue states:

11 Maryland 9.7%
09 Nebraska 9.5%
06 Delaware 9.2%
07 Utah 9.2%
08 Virginia 9.2%
05 Hawaii 8.6%
04 Minnesota 8.1%
03 Vermont 7.6%
02 New Jersey 6.8%
01 New Hampshire 5.6%

Another conservative myth dies here.

Originally Posted by InformedConsent

You do realize that the cities I listed with higher poverty rates than the red states you listed are blue themselves, located within blue states, no?

Why aren't blue states eradicating their own huge poverty problems? Hmmm?

[dsjj251]

Originally Posted by InformedConsent

There's a graphic that shows how different areas of the state vote:



My, my, my... look at all that red.

Illinois is very much like that, too. The blue votes are only in Chicago and just east of St. Louis. The rest of the state is red.


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The area's that are blue on your map represent about 15 million people, there are only 19 million people in the entire state.
Here, i will help you out


Blades of grass and cows do not have a right to vote, people do.

stop arguing on a bases of land area, it makes no sense.

[dsjj251]

Originally Posted by InformedConsent

Illinois is very much like that, too. The blue votes are only in Chicago and just east of St. Louis. The rest of the state is red.

Ill give you a map for that state as well so you can understand why you are so wrong.

[dsjj251]

Originally Posted by InformedConsent

Again, it is a FACT that the most segregated schools and the widest income gaps are in blue states. And yet, the poor and minorities keep voting for Democrats.

None of those things are fact. At best you are arguing comparative income, but everyone being poorer in the South does not make your argument true, in fact it debunks it and shows the major flaws in it.

And the majority of African Americans live in the South and in red/purple states,not blue ones.