Why are Conservative, Tea Party States Like Mississippi and Alabama So Poor?

[doctorjef]

The OP frames the question backwards. Instead, ask: why are poor states so conservative and in thrall to the likes of the tea party? In answer, factors like impotent resentment, under-education, and lack of direct life exposure to the wider world (i.e. not via tv) come to mind.

[hawkeye2009]

Originally Posted by TempesT68

Those who are uneducated and ignorant are drawn to the republicans and hard right tea party. Not surprising the most wealthy, educated and prosperous areas are also the the most heavily democratic.

Another liberal hoax. It is interesting that those who claim to be more intelligent are duped by this hoax and others, such as global warming. Perhaps there is a defficiency of common sense out there.

IQ Hoax -- Debunking the hoax claiming that states with the highest average IQs voted for Gore or Kerry instead of Bush

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Originally Posted by doctorjef

The OP frames the question backwards. Instead, ask: why are poor states so conservative and in thrall to the likes of the tea party? In answer, factors like impotent resentment, under-education, and lack of direct life exposure to the wider world (i.e. not via tv) come to mind.

Poll after poll has shown that members of the Tea Party are better educated than the average population. Wrong again.