well.... all of those states are largely rural without big cities as well. large populations of people breed successes. the democratic ideology seems fairly weakly correlated compared to simple population density.

Outside of the few most densely populous states, the correlation between population density and quality of life doesn't appear to be particularly strong.

You have e.g. Ohio and Florida with high population density and mediocre quality of life, and e.g. Colorado and Minnesota with low population density and high quality of life.

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Quality of life for Ohioans is probably being impacted by how bad and depressing the Cleveland Browns are.

At least the Cavs and Indians are good antidepressants.

I misspoke, should have said high population density areas. These large cities become cultural hubs and tend to take over the politics of the larger area, because large groups of people tend to be more progressive than small groups.

Mississippi vs. Illinois being a great example. Mississippi has no real major cities, whereas Chicago surburbs are larger than Jackson MI. The entire state of IL has bent to the Chi political machine on a lot of issues and will continue to do so.

You're not wrong to say that democratic governments in big cities contribute to the quality of life, i just think its overplaying one's hand to suggest this is anything but happenstance based on the natural resources and lack there of that led to the rise of cities. tbh, if you'd stated liberal or progressive vs. conservative instead of Dem vs. Rep i would have fully accepted that. i'm mainly nitpicking any ways because im bored and like to talk about developmental historical topics.

This post was edited by thesnipa on May 11 2017 10:44am

https://www.yahoo.com/news/u-government-posts-182-billion-surplus-april-180943488--business.html

U.S. government posts $182 billion surplus in April



liberals, the media, the democratic party, and hillary supporters/voters are furious at the fiscal responsibility from President Trump and his administration. they're all also still mad that President Trump fired the guy that they wanted to resign

[√] winning [ ] not winning

I'm curious if it's gonna take more than 2 years before Trump takes Obama's economy back into the reds.

https://www.yahoo.com/tv/kellyanne-conway-accuses-anderson-cooper-sexism-viral-eye-143649588.html

eyerolls equal "sexism"

i guess the right's way to combat incorrect reactionary labels that SJWs spew is "if you cant beat them join them"

I wonder what she interprets facepalms as?

oh very overt sexism of course, any symbolism with the sign of the palm is masturbation symbolism that men don't need women.

This post was edited by thesnipa on May 11 2017 01:08pm