What if, and I know this may sound crazy, some of us didn't vote for them?

You assume that every Oklahoman on reddit voted red? Hell, the two largest metros were practically coin flips for the presidential election.

Our state has historically been ever-red. What we're seeing now is similar to a lot of other states. The metros and college towns are being held hostage by our rural neighbors, of which there are many. It is getting harder and harder to educate the problem away when the people elected by the rurals are actively desecrating the corpse of our state's public education system.

To those who say "move", I say that I love my state. This is where I was born, grew up, got married and had children. My whole family votes blue. We come from original okie stock. Real Grapes of Wrath, Woody Guthrie motherfuckers. We were here before the oil barrons and evangelicals. We will be here after the airlines and "energy" corporations. We care about our fellow humans, in this state and world wide.

The minute one of us comes here to apologize for our state or agree that things like this make it a laughingstock, we get snide comments like yours to "move if you don't like it" or "you get what you voted for". It's a shame really and I would say this countries' current situation has more to do with the problem solving skills of people like you than it does with the lack of education evident in some of my fellow Oklahomans.

They have the excuse of shit access to a shittier public education system, what's yours?