[DiogenesLamp]

The Reason blue states are wealthy and red states are poor is because many blue states are situated in areas that were destined by geography to become wealthy.

Take New York and San Fransisco for example. Destined by their natural harbor geometry to be incredibly wealthy in the normal course of trade over the centuries. Chicago too. Boston too.

Wealth *MAKES* people liberal, because poor people simply cannot afford such stupidity. You have to be rich to be able to do so many stupid things and not have it blow up in your face in a fatal way.

California as a state was destined to be wealthy because of Geography, Climate, Minerals, and the talent that such a nice climate will attract. (Indeed, the movie industry located there precisely because of the climate.)

Liberalism is the by product of wealth and riches, and because the United States became so prosperous, it has allowed liberal idiot fantasies to likewise prosper. Things that no sane country would do, we did because up till now we could afford to do these stupid things.

Now the whole system is running on fake money and will eventually crash in a decade or so.

Andrew Tytler figured this stuff out centuries ago.

So did the Greeks.

Can provide more information along these lines if anyone is really interested in the underpinning theories behind it.

[Blue Ink]

“(Indeed, the movie industry located there precisely because of the climate.)”

A common misconception that makes sense intuitively — More sunshine, more movies! — but that’s not the real explanation.

The early twentieth century movie industry, which was thriving in New Jersey, relocated to California to elude the Edison movie camera patent enforcement officers, who collected fees from anyone making a film,