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Many people in those states join groups like the Tea Party and become conservative because they're overrun by poor, government addicted trash that lives on tax dollars and demands more daily.
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.
Seventy years ago the average income in America's South was $314 a year. In current dollars that would be about $4,400, meaning that southerners then were about as rich as the people of Botswana are today. Half the workers in the South in the 1930s were farmers, and half of those did not own the land they farmed. Some paid rent. Others, like Matthews, gave their landlord a share of their crop. The average landless cotton farmer made $73 a year ($1,023 today).
In 1937 southern incomes were only half the American average; today they are 91% of it.
In order to compare the economies of the southern states to the rest of the nation, one must have a firm grasp on the history of this place.
Both states were among the wealthiest in the nation up until the Civil War. The war was followed by 80 years of constant economic depression with a continued reliance on agriculture. It was not until the 1970s and 1980s that either state began to develop a true industrial economic base, and since then have been playing catch up.
However, both states have been improving economically ever since. Back in 2008, Alabama was slated to become the #1 auto producer in the US by 2014, with Mississippi soon to follow. Poverty has been cut in half in both states in the past 50 years, and record low unemployment levels were achieved in the past decade.
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.
You mean like all of those brainiacs on the dole in the inner cities who vote Democrat to keep the bennies flowing?
This if a serious question goes back to the founding of the nation. The south was and to some extent is an agrarian society. That is one based on the growing of crops for food and sale. As the north industrialized, the south wanted to keep its genteel way of polarizing the wealth at the top. like many tea baggers today. this did not go well when the civil war broke out as the south wanted to keep its free slave labor and the north was moving to stop slavery in the entire nation. With the industrial might of the north and the movement of many to the jobs the south had not chance in a war of attrition.
Ever been to Mississippi? It would make you cry! The racial divide in that state is so thick you can slice it with a knife! They seperate themselves racially and let's just say people know their place there! It's basically a "good ole' boy" system that has nothing to do with lifting all tides.
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.
Cities like Detroit and states like California prove you wrong. Those who are tired of supporting ignorant Democrats are drawn to the "hard right" Tea Party.
The reason poor suburban and poor rural people, like those in states like MS and AL, vote for Republicans is because they have been trained like poodles. Through right-wing radio and FOX News and such media, they are kept ignorant that Republicans do not have their best economic interests in mind, and the same media also instills social intolerance and hate in them, which leads to irrational fear of those different than them (such as the whole "black panther" story in 2008 and the phrase "gay agenda").
As for poor urban people, we--yes, I said WE, cause I'm one of them--have enough good sense to vote for our best economic interests. Republicans don't give a hoot about us inner city people, and that's why my home neighborhood (I'm currently stuck in the suburbs right now) goes Democratic 98-99% to 1-2% Republican.
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Those who are tired of supporting ignorant Democrats are drawn to the "hard right" Tea Party.
