Pew Research Economic Mobility Project

Pew Research has just released its finding on economic mobility in the United States. This is the reality between the idea of the so-called American Dream.

Why does a man who is making $50,000 a year vote Republican? Well, that’s a complex question with a lot of factors to be considered but, based upon a number of psychological profiles, somewhere in his mind he believes that someday he could be in the top 1% and he needs to protect that future wealth.

So, it would stand to reason that the states showing the best upward mobility would be the conservative states right?

Wrong.

Again the country defies rationality. Just like the Blue States have a net negative tax flow while the Red States have a positive tax flow (in other words the Blue States are supporting the Red States), the states with the best upward mobility are the Blue States of the Northeast and those with the worst are the Red States of the South.

The ranking is based upon the three indicators of Absolute Upward Mobility, Relative Upward Mobility and Relative Downward Mobility. States were placed in groups depending upon how well they compared to the national average.

The top group outperformed the national average in all three indicators and the second group outperformed the national average in two of the indicators.

On the other end of the scale was the bottom group which performed worse in all three indicators and the next to the bottom group which performed worse in two of the indicators. In many states there was no statistical difference between their performance and the national average.

The top group consisted of New York, New Jersey and Maryland. They’re followed by Connecticut. Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Utah (Utah?) in the second group.

At the bottom were Louisiana, Oklahoma and South Carolina followed by Alabama, Florida, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina and Texas.

Keep on voting Republican you dumb rednecks and you’ll spend your whole as white trash just like the rich folks like it.