LETTER: Red or blue?

A Saturday letter to the Review-Journal claimed that red “common-sense states” were being invaded by blue-state voters, and that is why many red-state Republicans lost in this past election. The writer was worried that the “flood of blue state voters” would bring blue state forms of government to the red states.

Red states have the lowest educational outcomes in the nation, they have some of the worst health-care outcomes, and they have some of the highest crime and poverty rates.

When it comes to affordability, you have to consider both halves of the equation: what stuff costs and what people earn. When considering both halves of the affordability equation, red states are some of the least-affordable states in the nation in which to live. If those results are what passes for common sense, then I have to agree with Will Rogers, who famously said, “Common sense just isn’t all that common these days.”

Perhaps a few more “blue-state voters” is just what the red states need.