To: 2banana
I blame the whole mess on just two counties in Illinois: Cook and DuPage, the counties that encompass the Chicago metropolitan area. Subtract out these two counties and Illinois (for the most part) would be a reasonably prosperous state, especially its agricultural output.
It's similar to the situation in Michigan: subtract out Wayne County (where Detroit is located) and it becomes a far more conservative state.
47 posted on
06/17/2017 12:03:32 PM PDT by
RayChuang88
(FairTax: America's economic cure)
To: RayChuang88
That is true in practically all blue states, with the exception of Massachusetts. Washington state less Seattle, Oregon less Portland and Salem, Penn less Philadelphia, Virginia less northern Virginia. I could go on and on, but those places are where the people live so they control the state.
56 posted on
06/17/2017 12:37:50 PM PDT by
Dave W
To: RayChuang88
65 posted on
06/17/2017 3:31:36 PM PDT by
ought-six
(Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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