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Originally posted by Spanky
When I have given talks in the "Red States" there is a general consensus that government should be kept as small as possible and a knee jerk attachment to free markets. Such prejudices don't exist when I talk to groups in the large cities in the Blue States. I have aslo seen this in focus groups collected from Rock Concerts and Country Concerts. I have also seen polls and focus groups from Nashville and Hollywood and they are vastly different. I find the Hollywood results scary and the Nashville ones reasurring. I believe that it is this American distrust of large government that has kept us prosperous and free and find it disconcerting that many people have forgotten that. Luckily the average American has not.
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The comforting attachment to small government of red state residents doesn't keep them from taking in more federal dollars than they pay out, while the opposite is true of the blue states (as a general rule). In other words, the people who whine about big government and their crushing tax burdens are the same ones cashing the welfare and subsidy checks. Why is that?
