This will further contribute to the already profound difference in quality of life between the red and blue states. But because this and the other confounding i

This will further contribute to the already profound difference in quality of life between the red and blue states. But because this and the other confounding issues are emotional ones, the affected populaces will not vote to change anything, and will instead choose to watch their lives deteriorate even further. I’m not very sympathetic to their situation, but I am concerned with the effects of their growing resentment of their neighboring, less decayed states.