Nevermind the choices outside the voting booth represent 99% of why they live in squalor.
I agree with eb here. Their voting tendencies are just a symptom of even larger deficiencies:
- fear of any change, along with everyone and everything different, so they get left in the past while the World moves on.
- young people with any real ambition move out, leaving the undesirable tweaker or alcoholic types with too many kids and no job skills.
- lack of job skills and fear of change prohibit economic development
- professionals like doctors and educators don't want to live in a ---- hole for ---- pay, so the people are unhealthy and stupid.
- blaming others who are not like them for their situation and problems.
Being MAGA is a whole lifestyle that existed long before Trump. I grew up in a rural "MAGA" area and I know this very well.
But it's not hopeless. For example, read Lentil Underground.
I'm a hardcore Republican and I want my handout! You owe me!