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Urban populations tend to include more low-income earners, who are more likely to favor receiving more assistance from their government, as such is likely to in
by judge2020 4y ago
Urban populations tend to include more low-income earners, who are more likely to favor receiving more assistance from their government, as such is likely to increase their quality of life. Rural blocks tend to earn enough to live independently and provide for themselves, so their QOL is likely to increase more with taxes being lowered rather than assistance programs they'd be means-tested against (or at least presume they would be).
- cozzyd 4y agoThere are plenty of rural poor, but providing services to them is logistically difficult.
- judge2020 4y agoBut there tend to be fewer rural poor per-capita compared to rural middle/upper class per-capita, which is why election maps tend to show blocks of blue in metro areas with red elsewhere.
- cozzyd 4y agoIncome and voting patterns are much less correlated than other factors. Income differences do not explain the rural-urban divide. The highest income counties in the US are... not red.
- troyvit 4y agoI wonder if churches take up the slack of providing social services in rural areas, increasing their sway in rural communities ...
- MacsHeadroom 4y agoRed States (made of rural blocks) collect FAR more federal subsidies per capita than blue states. Practically every blue state contributes positively to the federal budget while practically every red state siphons federal funds, ie. "welfare."
- turdit2 4y ago
- Larrikin 4y agoWhat does looking at people on the sidewalk have to do with your point? Especially in a major city where there's a massive amount of different jobs with all kinds of different hours and days worked. If you want to stereotype you can make the exact argument about a rural trailer park.
- neilc 4y agoCurious if you have any evidence for that claim. Looking at https://www.card.iastate.edu/ag_policy_review/article/?a=107 https://www.card.iastate.edu/ag_policy_review/article/?a=107 (Figure 1) suggests that rural vs urban unemployment rates have historically been quite similar; if anything, unemployment rates in rural areas were slightly higher than in urban areas. That changed during COVID but that appears to be a historical anomaly.