How the GOP Became the Party of the Rich

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Originally Posted by joeydb

Really? Which group mentioned above is likely to vote republican? The welfare recipients? The food stamp recipients? Which one(s) did I get wrong?

You got it all wrong. Completely backwards. Factually, yes, people on welfare and government subsidies, highest in the "red" states, tend to vote Republican.

The poorest states, the states with the most citizens on government assistance, both state and federal, are states that vote strongly Republican.

Here's a map where the states that take more in federal government assistance than they pay in taxes, the biggest "welfare states", are in red:



Here's a map of the way the states voted in the 2009 Presidential. Red is Republican: