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Old 03-16-2022, 08:51 AM
 
Location: Round Rock, Texas
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I fail to see why most of the major cities in the US continue to vote blue. This is one reason why they should not...

https://worldpopulationreview.com/us...h-most-murders
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Old 03-16-2022, 09:08 AM
 
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I would hope so. I came to TX partly to avoid the bat**** crazy left wing political environment in CA. And its taxes.
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Old 03-16-2022, 09:09 AM
 
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Same here.
Except I think the democrats are more devious and dangerous than the republicans.
And more expensive. One thing the republicans do reliably is cut taxes.
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Old 03-16-2022, 09:54 AM
 
Location: Houston, TX
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And more expensive. One thing the republicans do reliably is cut taxes.
They dont decrease spending though.
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Old 03-16-2022, 09:56 AM
 
Location: Houston, TX
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I fail to see why most of the major cities in the US continue to vote blue. This is one reason why they should not...

https://worldpopulationreview.com/us...h-most-murders
I dont understand why rural places vote red. This is one reason they should not:

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-sta...rates?slide=11

See how ridiculous that line of reasoning is?
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Old 03-16-2022, 10:33 AM
 
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I'm personally tired of both parties and think we need a full clean up starting from the top.
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Old 03-16-2022, 10:54 AM
 
Location: Houston/Austin, TX
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I dont understand why rural places vote red. This is one reason they should not:

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-sta...rates?slide=11

See how ridiculous that line of reasoning is?
There’s very few logical reasons that entire demographics (especially the rural vs urban) vote one sided.
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Old 03-16-2022, 10:55 AM
 
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I dont understand why rural places vote red. This is one reason they should not:

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-sta...rates?slide=11

See how ridiculous that line of reasoning is?

Raw poverty rates aren't very helpful. However, poverty adjusted by local cost of living metrics is orders of magnitude more useful.


You aren't going to like this.

https://www.businessinsider.com/cali...-bureau-2021-9


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ETA - His thesis points may or may not be correct currently but a few years ago I attended a set of lectures by the hyper-left but brilliant (Nobel Prize etc.) economist Amartya Sen at UT Austin. Sen is South Asian Indian and all about income and poverty. Anyway he asked the questions who is richer the median income earner in NY (state) or the same in Alabama? Or NY County New York (Manhattan) vs. Zapata County Texas? Anyway after ten minutes at the chalkboard he showed Alabama and Zapata Co. median income earners were richer.

Point being failure to adjust for local COL metrics renders many econometric data points almost useless.

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Old 03-16-2022, 10:56 AM
 
Location: Houston/Austin, TX
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I'm personally tired of both parties and think we need a full clean up starting from the top.
Unfortunately this won’t happen anytime soon. The media thrives off of the division. Until the American public as a whole becomes educated and takes education seriously, nothing will change in this regard.
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Old 03-16-2022, 11:09 AM
 
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Raw poverty rates aren't very helpful. However, poverty adjusted by local cost of living metrics is orders of magnitude more useful.


You aren't going to like this.

https://www.businessinsider.com/cali...-bureau-2021-9


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ETA - His thesis points may or may not be correct currently but a few years ago I attended a set of lectures by the hyper-left but brilliant (Nobel Prize etc.) economist Amartya Sen at UT Austin. Sen is South Asian Indian and all about income and poverty. Anyway he asked the questions who is richer the median income earner in NY (state) or the same in Alabama? Or NY County New York (Manhattan) vs. Zapata County Texas? Anyway after ten minutes at the chalkboard he showed Alabama and Zapata Co. median income earners were richer.

Point being failure to adjust for local COL metrics renders many econometric data points almost useless.
To be fair there probably is some truth in this but then you also have those extremely high median income earners in the bay area who despite the extraordinarily high CoL out there, do have more buying power than most Americans.. ..although.. this may be a bit skewed as the bay area is largely forcing anyone who 'doesn't' make that median income out of its vicinity due to affordability.. ..likewise you have Atlanta which has a much less noticable homeless situation than SFO but also has a much higher poverty rate .. I'm guessing, you could say the metrics are skewed because folks who are not in the six figure territory could not even dream of living near San Francisco thus pushing the median income far higher.
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