|
Michael Tae Sweeney@mtsw.bsky.social |
reminder that the causation on "economically depressed areas vote for Republicans" is often the opposite direction people think it is. Electing conservatives causes areas to become poorer by pushing out educated workers.
7 replies 70 reposts 303 likes
|
New Year’s Steve
@lessdismalsci.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Corollary is that the GOP hurting state economies by gutting the flagship universities is a feature, not a bug.
0 replies 0 reposts 1 likes
|
|
Michael Tae Sweeney
@mtsw.bsky.social
[ View ] |
3 replies 5 reposts 76 likes
|
Terez
@terez.bsky.social
[ View ] |
i think this is especially true in the black belt where so much public policy is designed to keep black people from having access to any kind of social safety net or public goods. thanks to anti-discrimination law this also affects poor white people. it depresses everything, starting with education.
0 replies 0 reposts 1 likes
|
lowtax speedrun enjoyer
@rickywlmsbong.bsky.social
[ View ] |
blue states are fumbling the bag by not building houses and transit
6 replies 3 reposts 59 likes
|
Nick
@nwbvt.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Are you trying to argue that areas like Appalachia and the Great Plains states were magnets for educated workers before Republicans started getting elected there? While Republican strongholds in the 1980s like California were notoriously lacking college graduates?
0 replies 0 reposts 1 likes
|
@nclud.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Was thinking of the anti-democracy effects of the senate along with the radically increasing population disparities of big and small states. And it occurred to me that in some settings there's an incentive to create an increasingly inhospitable state to drive people out to centralize your power
0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
Hunter Felt
@hunterfelt.bsky.social
[ View ] |
There's currently a huge brain drain going in Florida for obvious reasons.
0 replies 0 reposts 2 likes