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1 day agoLet’s look at Texas voting by county
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_United_States_presidential_election_in_Texas
Now let’s look at the proportion of gdp by county
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Texas_counties_by_GDP_2021.png
Hmm I wonder where most of the money in red states comes from…
Yup, my point is that red states gdp is being propped up by blue cities. The argument that red states generate equivalent gdp conveniently ignores that the counties in the state that do vote red don’t actually generate that much gdp. Cities are generally blue because the very nature of city life leans blue, and if you take these blue cities out of the equation you’d end up with a fraction of the supposed gdp of a red state.
And honestly a lot of these supposedly red states would crumble if gerrymandering didn’t exist, but that’s a separate point.