The weirdest thing when I lived there was ANY liberal ballot measure was basically guaranteed to pass, but straight down the ticket only republicans won their elections guaranteeing this kind of outcome in the state.
Anecdotally, it’s both. Most of the people I talked to would be very pro Republican but then talk about how they didn’t understand why we didn’t make weed legal or help people in poverty* or whatever the ballot initiative was.
*aid or minimum wage and stuff was often times very dependent on phrasing. They liked the ideas but only if they thought of people they liked. If you let them run long enough they’d eventually start talking about “druggies” or something like that to justify why $7.25 was where they’d rather leave the minimum wage for example. Or start riffing on how McDonald’s workers shouldn’t make as much as they did typing at a computer doing “real work”
Bruh what’s the point in having referendums if they can just be repealed
The weirdest thing when I lived there was ANY liberal ballot measure was basically guaranteed to pass, but straight down the ticket only republicans won their elections guaranteeing this kind of outcome in the state.
I guess the question lies then in if it was the propaganda or the gerrymandering… Or both.
Anecdotally, it’s both. Most of the people I talked to would be very pro Republican but then talk about how they didn’t understand why we didn’t make weed legal or help people in poverty* or whatever the ballot initiative was.
*aid or minimum wage and stuff was often times very dependent on phrasing. They liked the ideas but only if they thought of people they liked. If you let them run long enough they’d eventually start talking about “druggies” or something like that to justify why $7.25 was where they’d rather leave the minimum wage for example. Or start riffing on how McDonald’s workers shouldn’t make as much as they did typing at a computer doing “real work”