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[–] Bye@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago

Causality could be either or both ways here.

  1. Red states are red because they suck - unhappy people are more easily convinced to vote for conservative hucksters

  2. Red states suck because they are red - conservative policies just suck for people

I think it’s 75% 2, 25% 1.