If or when they gut the Voting Rights Act is there

[walkingman]

11. I also find this very interesting. Here is my opinion...

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Amazing how the poorest states (Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana?) vote against their self interest.

I think that in this country most people either consciously or unconsciously put themselves into a social class of either "hard-working" self-reliant or "lazy" dependent on others or the government.

Because the Democratic Party tends to support social programs which help everyone regardless of class, many perceive those that are on SNAP, Medicaid due to low income, SSI (or what some call welfare), etc. many white working class people tend to vote for the GOP simply because they think..."I work hard every day and we are not the kind of people to depend on charity" which in their eyes is represented by DEMs.

"The meritocracy trap, or the myth of meritocracy, is a dominant idea in the U.S. that people’s socioeconomic standing is due to their own merit; the people at the top deserve their success, and those at the bottom, their failure."

Just my opinion - it could be a Southern attitude, but I have seen it all my life.