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Originally Posted by RedFoxGT   Please refer to the statistics above.
So basically its just a coincidence that all of the former confederate states happen to be Red States today?  |
Many of those high production states used to be red states not even 30-40 years ago. The shift to liberalism has already driven a lot of companies and high paying jobs out of my former red now very blue state (Massachusetts)
In these Blue states a lot of the votes that make them blue come from the less productive inner cites with high population.. Just because a person was born, grew up in, and lives today in a blue or red state that does not mean they agree with the way that state leans politically. even in my state about 40 percent of the people voted for McCain.. Among that 40 percent is quite a few of the highly productive upper middle class voters.
Even in Extremely liberal massachusetts in my middle to upper middle class town obama only got about 53 percent of the vote.. and where I used to live in a few months ago
(dracut,ma) McCain won by a small margin
BUT if you look at inner city boston, worcester inner city like brockton and lowell Obama won by a landslide. These are not the highly educated Massachusetts voters.
BUT another thing that makes my state very liberal is the inner ring of very liberal wealthy suburbs of brookline, newton, weston, wellesley these areas are filled with extreme liberals, these towns are mostly jewish ( nothing against jewish people but they tend to be liberal even when rich)
Plus we have a LARGE population of college students and that group is very liberal.
Now about your former confederate states..
Up until the late 1960's these southern states were democrat states, it was president johnson's great society legislation and his war on poverty that turned the inner cities of the north into democrat strongholds and turned the south toward the republican party.
Supposedly Johnson said some disturbing and pretty disgusting comments about how black people will vote democrat forever because of him.
Before that southern states ALWAYS went democrat.