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Originally Posted by mineistaken
I read more about it and it seems that democrats are more welfare/freebie/social orientated than republicans, so its strange that there are lots of people on welfare that still vote republican. If I was welfare collecting useless citizen i would definitely vote democrat.
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I have said before that the greatest trick the republican party ever pulled was convincing a huge segment of the population to vote against their own economic best interests. Reagan was able to get many of the bible thumpers in the south to ignore economics and tax rates and focus on social issues. He turned the base of the republican party over to the evangelicals and now they run the party.