This is pure right wing delusions... States like Kentucky, Virginia, W. Virginia, Arkansas, Kansas, Mississippi and many other Republican voting states, live off of Federal Tax Money generated by the productivity in many states that are run by Democratic Governors... and then Right Wing People have the audacity to say who should not get assistance.
American needs to truly invest highly in "education" ... to void out the generalized folklore spread delusions of right wing mentality and its ideology.
States with the "worst of everything" when it comes to living condition, individual income, and every other thing.. is and has been "States populated by people who vote Republican".
It's the damnest thing, they are worst than crabs in a barrel... but eager to rush and eat up every bit of food that is put in the barrel.
Thank goodness that the Democratic Party is knowledgeable to respect the Civil, Civic and National Rights of States to be assisted by the Federal Governance, that supersedes the States Rights, via the establishing Federal Policy and investing to support it.
At some point... the Old Confederate Ideology will die out with these old people that don't know anything but to promote that craziness, because that's what they were taught. In 20 yrs... most of these type will be gone, and hopefully they have not infected too many of their offspring's with their lack of knowledgeable information and lack of understandings.
Young people today, are far smarter than these old heads, who think they know everything, but factually don't know anything, and continue to live based on CONFABULATED Folklore... Many can't keep up, so they try and slow and stagnate society.
I don't deal with such types in my daily work and living responsibilities. I know the times change, things change, and system change and progress develops continually... and nothing I can do nor want to do can stop that process. It's been going on before I was alive and it will continue when I'm not.
The best thing people can do for themselves, is be very discerning about how you allow what these stuck in the mud, stagnation motivated types try and push that does nothing but create regressions, follow by frustration and result to be a desperation to try to catch up, while having been made unequipped to keep up.
It's as stupid as some old goat ass, trying to tell a person, to go get a wired party line landline phone, because someone tells them its cheaper. or to hitch a mule to a plow, because it will make a man out of you... That kind of stuff is the fiction of "folklore". some will tell you, that its too much trouble to put gas in and clean a tractor and change the oil and have it tuned up, so they'd suggest you get a mule.
Know what to heed and what not to heed... because society is filled with many old people who are as feeble and mal-adjusted and stuck in fantasizing about a past that is already happen and times have changed and brought new things, new ways of doing things, all the while all some of the older types do is condemn innovations and try to desecrate and stagnate progress.
Right is Right, and that includes using the right technology and innovations development to do what old technology of manual process use to do.
You need to get some place that is 10 miles away:
Will you walk 10 miles, because someone does not have a horse and buggy, when a person drive up in an electric vehicle and offers you a ride? will you refuse the ride, because the car does not need gasoline? or because its not a buggy being drawn by a horse?