In 2024 only 2 states voted unanimously.

[Swede]

https://bsky.app/profile/cwphelan.bsky.social/post/3lb33tjyhtk23

[Walleye]

1. It's all right, Oklahoma, Massachusetts will be sending their tax money your way. So you can hate them more.

[Blaukraut]

10. I wish there were a way for MA to keep that money

because we will need it to deal with migrants that will surely be bussed in by the thousands from Texas and Florida. They need housing, food, clothing, medical care.

[Walleye]

11. Yep, you can't just dump people, somebody's gotta help take care of them

[Charging Triceratops]

28. There is. It's called secession.

And when the country breaks up, Texas will grow tree of paying for Oklahoma and Mississippi and West Virginia, and the flyover hicks can go to hell.

[True Dough]

2. Blue Red

Almost every freakin' time!!!

[Bok_Tukalo]

3. I'm not sure that says what you think

One has more interest in changing the system than the other.

[Lonestarblue]

4. But Oklahoma has no interest in improving any of the five categories.

[cstanleytech]

6. Well, it's clearly what the majority of them want. Why? I don't know *shrug*

[Walleye]

12. And yet the first thing they will tell you is, we don't live in a democracy

[cstanleytech]

16. To be fair though....have we ever truly been? Or has any country?

The wealthy and powerful seem to pull the strings no matter what form of government a country has and if they don't want anything to change it rarely will.

[Walleye]

17. No, but now the fascist are saying this is all the will of the people. I don't know how they think they know that.

[Metaphorical]

29. Wealth and Democracy

Wealth, power, and privilege exist in any government, and always has. What differentiates a democracy is that anyone can run for office, and there is an accounting on power that occurs at regular intervals with elections. Despite his stated intentions, Trump will not become president for life - there are too many others who have no problem getting back into the White House who absolutely won't support him as PFL.

[cstanleytech]

32. Sure, anyone can run but how many ultimately that pass the laws at the highest levels of government aren't wealthy?

[Shermann]

30. You could argue this is a correlation causation fallacy. nt

[bottomofthehill]

5. Lowest common denominator

The red states do not strive to get better, look at Medicare expansion, instead, the hope is to make others worse… ugly everyone up.

[cstanleytech]

8. I suspect that most of them actually just want to pay for it even though it has a number of huge benefits.

It creates jobs as you need healthcare workers and it can lead to lower strain on overburdened hospitals if people have access to a doctor other than being forced to use the emergency room because they can't pay.

[Midnight Writer]

7. Leopards have been eating their faces for so long they think it is normal.

[onenote]

9. That's based on county-wide totals. By township, it was not unanimous in Mass.

Trump had more votes than Harris in around 60 Townships in Massachusetts.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-elections/massachusetts-president-results

[seaglass]

13. By individual voters it's not unanimous either, seems kind of nitpicky. I mean 60% vs 36% seems pretty good. n/t

[onenote]

15. Definitely.

[Irish_Dem]

20. We do not live in a direct democracy. We live in a representative democracy.

The OP is correct.

[wolfie001]

24. Every state has undereducated, alabama parts

We have those here in Maryland.

[onenote]

25. yep. even Massachusetts

[wolfie001]

26. I was following that Susan Read trial

What a fascinating sh6tstorm. Those small-town cops are creepy as F. Anyways, Cheers! I used to live up there as a child and watched Yaz play at Fenway!

[FailureToCommunicate]

14. So infuriating. We were just in OK after the election. Rich estates with TRUMP signs near

hollowed out, dirt poor hamlets... WITH TRUMP SIGNS!

The people we chatted with were thrilled with the election results.

They crowed about their (homeschooled) kids that "felt the same way".

One HUGE sign on a long empty storefront read "TRUMP 2024 - The REVENGE tour!"

[La Coliniere]

18. A nation of rational, sane and critically thinking citizens

would all strive to be like Massachusetts. Kind of, sort of tells us the state of our citizenry and in over half the country it’s not well.

[Fla Dem]

19. Well I actually have something to be happy about....My hometown Wakefield, Ma

has Harris beating Trump 59% to 39% where I am living now and have been for over 20 years in Florida my County, (they don't report by city, just county) it was Trump 65%, Harris 34%.

ACTIVE REGISTERED VOTERS
Democrat 48,923 / Republican 126,468

[wolfie001]

23. Most of those Floridians are on Medicare and Social Security

Which makes them the biggest, most jack-assed hypocrites in the whole history of the US!!!

[PatSeg]

21. K&R

[wolfie001]

22. I'm feeling that "Ted Haggart vibes" with the OK Dept of Education head

I have a hunch he's a closet-case. Prolly puts on those bloomers and heels every now and then. Freedom!!!

[Karadeniz]

27. Proof of why gop wants poor, low info voters....sayonara dept. Ed!!!!!