>Yeah, this is quite frustrating. I spent a lot of time looking at the state of Kentucky to try to make sense of this. Kentucky is a very poor state. And when y

>Yeah, this is quite frustrating. I spent a lot of time looking at the state of Kentucky to try to make sense of this. Kentucky is a very poor state. And when you look at congressional districts there, you find a bunch of them where the average person gets more than 30 or 40 or 50 percent of their income from federal social benefits. >Yet those same districts are electing very conservative members of Congress who promise to introduce work requirements for food stamps and repeal the Affordable Care Act and so forth. It’s really puzzling. It seems likely that these two things would be correlated. If you have a high number of people receiving benefits in a district, those that are not receiving those benefits may be more aware of the benefits and be more likely to have a stronger opinion on the issue than someone living in a district where there are not many people receiving such benefits.