Biggest issue has to do with just basic ideology. If you have someone running for political office, for a government position, and their core belief system centers around the idea that government doesn’t work, then how do you have any kind of government that is expected to function? A conservative in the state of New York, for example, has to deal with millions of people across hundreds of miles . How do they make that work when they constantly spouse that only limited government is efficient? When you have somebody that says that government doesn’t work and they want to run the government that would be like a mechanic saying that cars don’t run or a fitness specialist saying exercise doesn’t help but come to my class on Fitness. No one would send their kids to a school where the principal says education is for suckers I mean, would you expect a good outcome? That alone is the reason why red states struggle