Why Are “Red” States so Poor?

I’m sure this subject has been studied countless times by sociologists and economists.  If I were asked to explain it, I would suggest the following:

Certain states place less value on education, and therefore their people ultimately become less productive in the workplace, thus poor relative to the rest of the country.

Poor and uneducated people are naturally afraid that their lives might get even worse, and are thus easy targets for a political party that sells fear, i.e., the fear that migrants are flooding across the southern border, stealing white people’s jobs and voting for Democrats.  When a Republican president refers to immigrants as “animals” and “vermin,” he has an attentive audience and a solid voter base.

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