I know you'll never believe this, but the 10 poorest counties in Missouri all have one thing in common: Republican representatives. Every single one. www.kansascity.com/news/state/m...
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Missouri being a red state is lacking in all funding for low income residents. We also spend less on students per year than almost every other state. As a resident of Missouri I see it everyday.
feb 27, 2025, 1:42 pm • 1 0 • view
That's like in every state and some states entirely
feb 27, 2025, 2:25 pm • 0 0 • view
They believe they’ve been voting against Democrats while they’ve literally been voting against themselves.
feb 27, 2025, 8:33 pm • 1 2 • view
Don’t forget Please copy and re-post Support small and local business We don’t need billionaires who use our money to support fascism and destroy the .gov
feb 27, 2025, 6:15 pm • 4 5 • view
I believe it.
feb 27, 2025, 6:23 pm • 0 0 • view
Wonder how poor their public servants are
feb 27, 2025, 6:53 pm • 0 0 • view
Shows the power of the GOP propaganda machine. I'm sure have those people convinced Ds are child rapist, trans, kitty-liter-in-classroom, give my money to illegal immigrant socialists. So they'll continue voting for people who keep them poor, uneducated and unhealthy.
feb 28, 2025, 4:17 am • 1 0 • view
The state of Misery?
feb 27, 2025, 5:14 pm • 0 0 • view
Interesting. Something like the 23 of the 25 states receiving the most in federal aid are republican led states too. In California there's a massive disparity between democratic led areas and republican led areas. Montana, is something like 4rth in the top ten most federally dependent states.
feb 27, 2025, 1:00 pm • 60 14 • view
Time to change funding to the states. Split the monies evenly. Watch those Southern states go down faster than a republican does on Yam-Tits.
feb 27, 2025, 1:14 pm • 0 0 • view
All of the red states are in the FAFO stages- their benefits are being cut by their congress and senate reps! ‘Cut off their nose to spite their faces’ voting for these 🤡s
feb 27, 2025, 1:04 pm • 1 1 • view
feb 27, 2025, 1:23 pm • 76 19 • view
Bingo
feb 27, 2025, 2:09 pm • 16 1 • view
And just think what would happen if all of them decided to stop paying money to the government.
feb 27, 2025, 1:25 pm • 2 0 • view
That doesn’t make sense to me. I can argue they contribute more to the US than they take, but there’s simply no way that Texas and Florida don’t have more revenue than pretty much every blue state on this map, with the exception of California.
feb 27, 2025, 2:12 pm • 1 0 • view
Except California alone just passed Germany and is one of the largest economies in the world. Texas and Florida are not close
feb 27, 2025, 2:24 pm • 2 0 • view
No disagreement here.
feb 27, 2025, 2:58 pm • 0 0 • view
Yeah. That’s wrong. Florida contributes a lot but also uses a lot. California, New York, Texas and Florida are top contributors.
mar 20, 2025, 6:56 pm • 0 0 • view
Look underneath that pile of poor people and you will discover a small handful of rich people who own everything
feb 27, 2025, 2:49 pm • 0 0 • view
I grew up in Iredell County, NC. Racist. Small minded. Stuck in their own way. All republicans - and yet there is a large Black community. I wish they would stand up and push those old white bastards to the curb.
feb 28, 2025, 2:56 am • 0 0 • view
Shocking. I guess we don't need to ask how all that winning is working out for them.
feb 27, 2025, 7:56 pm • 0 0 • view
And they rely on the government more than the contribute, I bet
feb 27, 2025, 1:40 pm • 0 0 • view
*they
feb 27, 2025, 1:41 pm • 0 0 • view
I’ve said it before… In these rural areas the Republicans will accuse the Democrats of wanting to raise their taxes and take their guns, and the Republicans will get elected every time.
feb 28, 2025, 2:57 am • 0 0 • view
I’m of the mindset that most rural people I’ve known, would drop everything to help a neighbor in need because they know it could be them next. However MAGA has made the “blame game” a requisite and the pols are addicted to that power and keep everyone in fear and hate!
feb 27, 2025, 1:02 pm • 1 0 • view
not surprised
feb 27, 2025, 8:53 pm • 0 0 • view
Embarrassing. The study used data from the I.R.S.? Better defund the I.R.S.
feb 27, 2025, 1:00 pm • 2 0 • view
The overlords are in place, Master.
feb 27, 2025, 1:15 pm • 1 0 • view
📌
feb 27, 2025, 2:29 pm • 0 0 • view
Not surprised.
feb 27, 2025, 3:28 pm • 0 0 • view
Same with states.
feb 27, 2025, 3:04 pm • 0 0 • view
They BELIEVE the shit that says Republicans will make them rich. Fucking Repubes will make them DEAD.
feb 28, 2025, 12:56 am • 0 0 • view
And they should ask their congress reps “What have you done for me lately” force them to have a town mtg which I am willing to bet- none of them ever have and won’t. They are cowards!
feb 27, 2025, 1:01 pm • 0 0 • view
These people hate blacks and gays. As long as their rep strokes that hatred they will vote for them and go into repeated bankruptcy to do so. It isn’t about the money for them. It’s all about the racism and bigotry. All out of fucks.
feb 28, 2025, 2:44 am • 0 0 • view
Sad
feb 27, 2025, 12:57 pm • 2 0 • view
But true
feb 27, 2025, 12:59 pm • 1 0 • view
And 9/10 poorest states are Republican…sending a pattern here.
feb 27, 2025, 1:26 pm • 2 1 • view
I think we all believe it.
feb 28, 2025, 4:24 pm • 0 0 • view
I believe it!!!
feb 27, 2025, 10:29 pm • 0 0 • view
4 of the six poorest counties in Missouri are in Southeast Missouri, yet, no region continues to support the GOP and its 20+ year majority more strongly than ….. Southeast Missouri. You simply can not help people who steadfastly refuse to help themselves.
feb 27, 2025, 1:44 pm • 10 1 • view
Shocking!! Not. And I bet all their supporters somehow think it is someone else's fault...probably an immigrant, trans person, socialist Marxist communist liberal. Anyone but the actual people in charge. We do the same here in poor, rural Montana.
feb 27, 2025, 1:02 pm • 1 1 • view
100% this. So much hate directed toward democratic values and “libs”. It is confounding.
feb 27, 2025, 1:59 pm • 2 0 • view
They are the show me state. Only today it's the find out state
feb 27, 2025, 2:15 pm • 1 0 • view
This absolutely applies to most if not ALL red states at this point. If I was a bad person, I’d be amazed at how well their representatives successfully conned them into keeping themselves poor & uneducated, while keeping the representatives wealthy & healthy.
feb 27, 2025, 1:03 pm • 1 1 • view
Same here in TN…
feb 27, 2025, 1:33 pm • 2 0 • view
Bastardize their religion, and encourage them to blame their neighbor for all their own problems, and they will follow you all the way to their own camps!
feb 27, 2025, 4:09 pm • 0 0 • view
Surprise surprise My Scottish Irish grandmother used to say it was the rich classes that the vote likes of conservative. But she was wrong, they would never get in without the working class vote. N they con so many of them. And it's exactly the same, if not a lot worse, in the USA for this.
feb 27, 2025, 1:03 pm • 1 0 • view
One of the most affluent areas in the world, Chelsea and Fulham, in London, has a Labour MP . Then you get all the poor areas in north England with their conservative MPs lol
feb 27, 2025, 1:05 pm • 1 0 • view
Probably not just Missouri!
feb 27, 2025, 5:55 pm • 0 0 • view
Perhaps the people in these counties gave up on improving their lot and vote for Republicans in order to make people in other places as or more miserable.
feb 27, 2025, 2:41 pm • 4 0 • view
That’s why their policies are designed to create more poor people. It’s not just Trump, the entire GOP loves the uneducated and if you can keep people poor, you keep the uneducated as well.
feb 27, 2025, 2:29 pm • 0 0 • view
I don’t think it’s just in MO, either. Psychology and sociology, it is fascinating.
feb 27, 2025, 4:14 pm • 0 0 • view
I believe it - i live in mississippi. Same shit different flies.
feb 27, 2025, 2:11 pm • 0 0 • view
A political paradox
feb 27, 2025, 3:36 pm • 0 0 • view
They will show huge mismanagement of funds. The good ol’ boy network is alive and well in Pemiscot County and they just keep thinking it’s normal.
feb 27, 2025, 5:28 pm • 0 0 • view
I bet there are quite few counties in red states like that.
feb 27, 2025, 3:44 pm • 0 0 • view
I live in Arkansas, enough said
feb 27, 2025, 1:10 pm • 0 0 • view
Iowa is similar, except that EVERY county is represented by a Republican. The result is the same.
feb 27, 2025, 1:09 pm • 0 0 • view
I believe it
feb 27, 2025, 3:24 pm • 0 0 • view
So shocking
feb 27, 2025, 1:53 pm • 0 0 • view
Now you know why this state is nicknamed Misery. #AuditIncelNAZIElmo #DefundIncelNAZIElmo #DeportIncelNAZIElmo #JailtheOrangePustule #SubprimeCourtReformsNOW
feb 27, 2025, 4:56 pm • 0 0 • view
Are they also the ten most polluted?
feb 27, 2025, 3:24 pm • 0 0 • view
When claiming "government doesn't work" becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. "Have you considered voting for someone who was NOT a total bastard?"
feb 27, 2025, 4:25 pm • 0 0 • view
THIS time it will be different...
feb 27, 2025, 9:54 pm • 1 0 • view
Strange how they think, but usually there is a undercurrent of self-righteousness with the republicans I've known. I've lived years in NH and it's a very red state.
feb 27, 2025, 2:22 pm • 0 0 • view
Forgive me for underutilizing my fainting couch.
feb 27, 2025, 1:44 pm • 8 0 • view
feb 27, 2025, 7:45 pm • 0 0 • view
Well, because the poor in this country, don’t think they’re poor, they just think they’re temporarily embarrassed millionaires.
feb 28, 2025, 12:42 pm • 0 0 • view
I believe it. American GOPs are unknowkedgeable about our government and don't know how to help themselves by voting.
feb 27, 2025, 2:03 pm • 1 0 • view
feb 27, 2025, 6:16 pm • 0 0 • view
What are statistics on percentage of lottery buyers in those 10 poorest counties compared to the rest of the state?
feb 27, 2025, 3:36 pm • 0 0 • view
They suck everywhere.
feb 27, 2025, 10:46 pm • 0 0 • view
Just like WV then.
feb 27, 2025, 2:43 pm • 0 0 • view
Yep, I believe it. Snd there going to be hit hard by Medicaid cuts.
feb 27, 2025, 5:53 pm • 0 0 • view
Sweet fucking ferrets. This is where we're moving. Right into Eric Burlison's district.
feb 27, 2025, 2:25 pm • 2 0 • view
Holt county I was born there lived there it's one of the reddest counties in the state I don't feel sorry for them at all
feb 28, 2025, 1:01 am • 1 0 • view
I would never doubt that
feb 27, 2025, 1:16 pm • 0 0 • view
Color me surprised
feb 27, 2025, 7:46 pm • 0 0 • view
Poorly represented
feb 27, 2025, 1:09 pm • 0 0 • view
feb 27, 2025, 2:39 pm • 0 0 • view
That is something I will never understand. They are fools.
feb 27, 2025, 2:35 pm • 0 0 • view
Oooh, I believe it. (Kinda surprised Grundy County isn’t on there, but I did a different source.) I’m a former SE Iowan, and MO was where we went for gasoline, “beverages”, fireworks, and cigarettes because they were cheaper. And when it came to college, many of us chose the now Truman State ⬇️
feb 27, 2025, 1:26 pm • 0 0 • view
…because it was lower tuition. (That’s a whole other story.) Anyway, my first teaching job in Trenton was $7800/year (1975). My friend was in Iowa making $11,500/year. My fridge was quite empty that year.
feb 27, 2025, 1:31 pm • 1 0 • view
I totally believe that. Poor, uneducated, sheeple.
feb 27, 2025, 6:09 pm • 0 0 • view
Have you seen how republicans in Jeff City are fighting like hell to reverse the will of the people on abortion? Apparently we the people don't matter anymore!
feb 27, 2025, 3:19 pm • 0 0 • view
It’s in the water. Born and raised in rural MO. I left after jr high best thing to happen to me.
feb 27, 2025, 1:17 pm • 2 0 • view
The same is true for the vast majority of rural areas across the country. “God and guns” has been an effective strategy for Republicans though to the detriment of all these areas. And they are wondering why their children hightail it out of there when they graduate.
feb 27, 2025, 4:36 pm • 1 0 • view
feb 27, 2025, 9:16 pm • 1 0 • view
Absolute collapse is a painful, but incredibly effective, way of learning political lessons. Let the pain get underway so that things can eventually move forward.
feb 27, 2025, 3:27 pm • 0 0 • view
Washington same
feb 27, 2025, 1:07 pm • 0 0 • view
I've seen some weird shit in Missouri
feb 27, 2025, 4:11 pm • 0 0 • view
How many in those counties on Medicaid?
feb 27, 2025, 1:03 pm • 1 1 • view
DUH!!!!!!
feb 27, 2025, 2:35 pm • 0 0 • view
Figures
feb 27, 2025, 10:31 pm • 0 0 • view
It won’t change until these folks stop watching & listening to right wing media, which revises or ignores news & events to suit their “beliefs”. So many will learn the hard way that Dems were looking out for them & the GOP doesn’t care about anything except low taxes for the 1% & culture wars.
feb 27, 2025, 7:49 pm • 0 0 • view
But they are really good at putting the blame on to others... thats why people still keep voting for them. Its always someone elses fault. There is always someone to punch down on.
feb 27, 2025, 4:27 pm • 0 0 • view
Same in Tennessee
feb 27, 2025, 7:05 pm • 0 0 • view
Amazing. Almost like a clone of Texas. 🤦♀️ and yet people here still vote for the Leopards.
feb 27, 2025, 3:00 pm • 0 0 • view
That's how they like their constituents, Uneducated, poor, and powerless.
feb 27, 2025, 3:53 pm • 1 0 • view
No surprise here. That's the Republican way. Keep them stupid and distract them with culture wars. Then, send in the pastors to back it all up with pseudo religious nonsense with promises of hellfire and damnation if they don't comply. Meanwhile, rake in the cash and laugh all the way to the bank.
feb 27, 2025, 3:32 pm • 0 0 • view
Welcome to Misery.
feb 27, 2025, 3:38 pm • 1 0 • view
There is a fable, “The Scorpion and the Fox” that may illustrate this.
feb 27, 2025, 9:16 pm • 0 0 • view
This plays out across the country….. I don’t understand why they don’t rise up?
feb 27, 2025, 4:52 pm • 0 0 • view
Tough shit for them
feb 27, 2025, 3:35 pm • 1 0 • view
But that's only because Republicans Never Help People #RepubsNeverHelp
feb 27, 2025, 1:05 pm • 0 0 • view
They vote “R” because thy think they’re screwing someone else. They’re going to whine like four year olds shortly, if not already. Sooooory!
feb 27, 2025, 4:57 pm • 0 0 • view
Pretty much the same nation wide
feb 27, 2025, 2:31 pm • 0 0 • view