Which statement do you agree with more?

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B is more true than A.

The GOP coalition on the surface seems to be a lot more stable.

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B. The Dems are an odd combination of the alienated. They are much less interested in structure and hierarchy. The statement about the GOP is patenetly false. It's mostly the GOP states that receive the largesse of federal funding.

Actual GOP voters are not always the beneficiaries of this though.

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B. The Dems are an odd combination of the alienated. They are much less interested in structure and hierarchy. The statement about the GOP is patenetly false. It's mostly the GOP states that receive the largesse of federal funding.

Actual GOP voters are not always the beneficiaries of this though.

Given that the GOP base is disproportionaly older people, military, and people who live in exurbia, I'd say you're wrong about that. Granted the "always" saves your statement at a literal level. If nothing else, that federal money is getting funneled into the local economies of GOP areas. There's a reason the GOP is too scared to go after entitlements and defense. Their base loves their federal dollars. They're just too delusional to understand that they are the welfare queens.

Well sure.

A lot of actual direct dollar expenditures end up going to:

1.) Military bases. Federal funding fell for Northern states as bases were shutdown through the 1990s and than opened up in the South (which are better for year round operations anyway).

2.) National parks in Wyoming, Arizona, Tennesee. Yellowstone, Grand Canyon, etc. More land is federally owned in the West than the East.

3.) Minority communities who vote heavily D. Shannon County, South Dakota; Black Belt; South Texas, etc.

It's not so much elderly voters who are the GOP base, but more White voters whose fertility rate is low.