A view from the reddest of red states - Oklahoma, where the wind comes sweeping down the plain.

[RiskWrangler]

111. I agree Mortos with

your thoughts and work experiences on this topic. I was googling "Why is Oklahoma a Red State?" after yet another conversation with a client that left my office yesterday. So..I was led to this wonderful website and had to join. I have read through most of the responses on this topic. Even though I have lived in Oklahoma all of my life and no stranger to the (many times) nonsense attitudes that are prevalent, it still somehow baffles me how I can run into so many people whom make lower middle income salaries whom claim to be a Republican party supporter. One of several conclusions I have come to is this...many people are easily persuaded by others whom are in a position of seeming authority and want to be liked by them or be included in a group with them. I understand this from my experience in an advisement to others profession. There are many, many people that are easily misdirected and I have spent countless hours/days/weeks in helping these persons to get repaired from this misguided influence. One client told me he and his wife honestly just followed his pastor's advise about many areas of his life...financial, political, etc because he and his wife respected this person immensely and wanted to be like him, liked by him, and included in his group. They simply chose not to use their critical thinking capability to investigate if the actions they were taking were in "their" best interests. I also have quite a few of my relatives that are on government/taxpayer long-term assistance...social security disability, VA disability. I am not against these programs and agree still to this day that we need programs such as these to help those among our society whom have no other way. What I find amazing is they wouldn't put out a liberals body that is on fire if they had the fire hose. I have had calm conversations with most of them regarding this amazing lack of understanding, however, it's like I was trying to tell them that the world is round..they won't accept it. I am not by any means a political activist type of person, but if the subject comes up, I will tell them EXACTLY what I believe with a smile and continue trying to help and educate those in the state of Oklahoma so they can make better fundamental critical decisions going forward.