> (1) Why would the state residents vote for a state legislature that takes away human rights from them? (a) That assumes they get to vote: see voter suppressi

> (1) Why would the state residents vote for a state legislature that takes away human rights from them? (a) That assumes they get to vote: see voter suppression. (b) Plenty of folks vote for things that are against their own interests: > Working-class Americans who voted for Donald J. Trump continue to approve of him as president, even though he supported a health care bill that would disproportionately hurt them. * https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/12/upshot/why-americans-vote-against-their-interest-partisanship.html https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/12/upshot/why-americans-vote... * https://www.theguardian.com/society/2012/jun/05/why-working-class-people-vote-conservative https://www.theguardian.com/society/2012/jun/05/why-working-... * https://thehill.com/opinion/james-carville/227350-james-carville-why-do-people-vote-against-their-interests/ https://thehill.com/opinion/james-carville/227350-james-carv...