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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I've lived in a very blue area and now I live in a red-ish area. I've realized that we talk about these places as though they are two different sides. They aren't- they are competing economic models that threaten each other.

The red states have a model with lower wages but lower cost of living, and much less of an economic safety net. This works well for most people, most of the time, if their aim is to establish a life of work and productivity. For example, our landscaper started his business at age 12, kept his clients, and now runs a full-service landscaping and contracting business. He's a local guy and makes enough money to support his family on one income, in a nice house with a pool.

This was a stunning discovery for me, because where I'm from in Montgomery County, MD, people don't grow up to be successful landscapers, or housekeepers, or nannies. You cannot earn enough money to support yourself on these types of jobs because you're competing with an underclass of immigrant workers who do the work for much less. These immigrants provide the base-load of labor necessary for us to power the rest of the system. It's basically exploitation, but, since it allows us to be able to say, well we protect our people with a safety net during illness and unemployment, people feel good about it.

But this is unappealing to red staters because you're asking them to give up a system that is working for them. And one in which people all across the spectrum of talent and intellect can have a good life. And that red state system is unappealing to blue states, who want the cheap labor to keep the system of higher wages and safety nets working for citizens. No one wants their system disrupted, and that's why this issue of illegal immigration is so contentious. Red states need immigration rules enforced to protect their way of life while blue states need them ignored for the same reason. [/quote]
This is an excellent post that highlights how dependent on exploiting immigrants and people of color the so-called righteous Democrats of the blue states are. [/quote]

So nobody from the south has ever eaten a strawberry? Every maid in Georgia is white? [/quote]

Haha spot on. Hypocrites. They don’t give a damn about exploiting immigrants, legal or otherwise. Same scripted sh|t talkers.[/quote]

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