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the last couple weeks i've been doing videos about
places with a low-cost living and low housing prices
since i started those videos i've been getting questions about which republican
conservative states or red states are the cheapest how a location leans
politically is very important to a lot of people
to others it doesn't matter i'm one of them i don't care but i also get the
feeling i'm in the minority on that belief i do
understand that human beings like to be around
other human beings with very familiar beliefs they like their own people
in my unscientific study which includes reading comments and hate mail i would
guess that more than half the people that watch my videos care very much
about how their state votes so we call it the red states since
the 2000 united states presidential election red states and blue states have
referred to states whose voters predominantly choose either the
republican party red or the democratic party blue
presidential candidates this list is about the cheapest red states to buy
home i'll probably only do the red states because there doesn't seem to be
much interest for affordable housing in blue states
nobody's asked me about it so i i guess people don't care if i'm wrong let me
know in the comment section below we'll make the video
so how did we rank these states i'll tell you republicans carried all the
states on this list in the last four elections and that's the first category
second one is on average they have really cheap housing yeah
cheap places to buy homes all right let's see who they are
number 10 louisiana the pelican state was the first state carved out of the
louisiana purchase territory in 1812 becoming the 18th state to join
the union nine years after the louisiana purchase which was in 1803.
in 1976 they tested the water with carter didn't like what they saw
and went solid red for the next three elections until they suffered memory
loss and went with clinton twice they have
since i guess learned their lesson because as a matter of fact they may
have gone fire truck red with trump in 2016. now you can get some really
cheap homes in louisiana they have some nice neighborhoods they have some nice
little you know areas to live but a majority of this state is kind of
on the poverty side the median home price here is 161
000 the median home size is 1600 square feet so not terribly small homes
for a good price you just gotta live in louisiana deal with mosquitoes
and heat humidity number nine missouri the show me state got its nickname for
being the first state to arrest and convict a man for being an exhibitionist
i'm totally joking how many of you started googling it missouri became a us
territory as part of the louisiana purchase in 1803 and a year later the
lewis and clark expedition set out from saint louis to explore the you know the
rest of the country wasn't the rest of the country then it was just
open space pretty much the show me state was admitted into the union in 1821 as
part of the missouri compromise settlers flocked to the state and by the
early 1830s mormons started to migrate to the state as well and within a few
years after that violence broke out between the mormons and non-mormons with
the infamous 1838 executive order by governor boggs said
that mormons should be treated as enemies and they must be expelled from
the state or exterminated if necessary great i'd leave two and head to salt
lake city missouri's followed the same pattern most red states have followed
all red but clinton and carter the median home price
in missouri is 158 thousand 000 not bad the median home size is 1400
square feet number eight nebraska there are more
cows than people in nebraska and as you can probably imagine these
aren't pets the state's biggest farm product is beef with about 19
000 cattle ranches people are outnumbered by more than three to one
nebraska has been solid red since before nixon
in 2008 the city of omaha nebraska went with obama while
the rest of the state went with mccain i'm thinking the residents of omaha
got confused with the names and thought that they were voting for the city of
omaha nebraska to be the president you know some cornhusker went into the
voting booth and thought well look at that that's new a
city as the president let's give that a try sort of like when
dairy queen adds something new to the menu
the median home price in nebraska is 158 000 that's it most the house is around
1700 square feet number 7 alabama the confederacy was born in
montgomery alabama and it was the first capital during the civil war after the
war segregation was in full bloom down south and in alabama
a little bit more in 1901 the state limited voting rights for thousands of
blacks and poor whites through poll taxes
literacy tests and other restrictive requirements anything they could do to
keep the poor folks from casting a vote they did
speaking of voting they went with carter in 76 and decided that was enough
they've been red ever since the median home price in alabama is 144 thousand
dollars that's not terrible the median size is
about 1588 square feet
alabama's a weird state though you either love it or you hate it they've
got some areas in there that are just downright ugly and you want to stay away
from but then on the other hand they have
some amazing places with amazing people and
great architecture and a lot of history so yeah it's kind of weird i've always
felt alabama was just a weird kind of state
but like i said a lot of people love it there's a lot of good people there
number six kansas about now you're thinking to yourself hey
are all these states in the south or the midwest and the answer is
yes they are and don't say i'm biased either
i don't control the real estate markets or how people vote
so i didn't make up this list i'm just going by the numbers i
actually would like to control how people voted that would be great
i'd have everyone elect carrot top as our next president just so i could see
every news outlet's election night host use the f word as the results came in
that would be great wouldn't it present carrot top the last time kansas
voted democrat was 1964 when they decided barry
goldwater was crazy and they should stick with johnson the median home price
is 143 thousand dollars that's not bad money for a house you're
living in kansas kansas isn't the worst state in the
union so you could do so much worse the median size is 1522 square feet
number five mississippi the magnolia state was the second state to bail on
the union in 1861. the state's location along the
mississippi river made it a serious strategic military location during the
civil war mississippi lost a lot of men during the war they
lost nearly 10 thousand soldiers the 13th amendment which abolished
slavery was ratified in 1865 at the close of the war
mississippi didn't officially adopt it until 1995 and didn't officially notify
washington of the vote until 2013. nothing like putting things off guys
mississippi has been a solid red state since carter left office the
median home price here is 138 thousand dollars that's not a lot of money for a
house median size is 1479 square feet
mississippi always seems to be on the worst lists
and that's probably why real estate prices are so low they are i'm surprised
they're not the cheapest number four kentucky officially known as
the commonwealth of kentucky this state takes great pride in its
history and its culture including the popularity of its bluegrass music
horses moonshine low number of dentists and bourbon kentucky has a couple of my
favorite army bases fort campbell which is the headquarters for the 101st
airborne division and fort knox it's an army base that
dates way back to world war one and actually holds the nation's gold
reserve the commonwealth did the whole carter clinton thing
and they've stayed solid red since then the median home price here
is 135 000 that's it we're getting kind of low here 135 000
is the median home price that wow anyway the median size is 1456 square feet
so cheap houses decent size and moonshine if you want it number three
west virginia one of my favorite states to visit west virginia
like i've said before this state has a bad rep from a lot of different things
they've had a rough patch for the last decade or so
it's too bad in my opinion this is one of the top five states when it comes to
good people you know this state really deserves a
good bounce or two you gotta love a state that has a governor that drops
f-bombs during covet 19 press conferences and then tries to blame it
on technology i'm not even joking about that
he did it jim justice he dropped an f-bomb and then came out on twitter and
said oh it must have been technical difficulties
yeah i have that same technical difficulty west virginia
is a solid red state these days but they're one of the only states that
voted for carter against reagan and dukakis if my
79 year old father told me he would have voted that way i'd
have him checked the median home price in west virginia
is 132 thousand dollars that's not bad money i could do that
tomorrow the median home size is 1472 square feet
west virginia i think is a steal if you have a job
that you could bring with you like working remotely
and you want to save some money west virginia is the best bet to do that
and if you're a republican conservative this is also
the best state for that in my opinion number two oklahoma the land that became
oklahoma was added to the united states as part of the louisiana purchase in
1803 and the government spent much of the
next century trying to relocate the native american tribes from the
southeast region in 1830 congress adopted the indian
removal act which almost 200 years later is viewed as one
of our lowest points as a nation with statehood came an oil boom and much
of the state's early growth came from oil yeah drilling exploration all that
good stuff these days they still produce about 68 million barrels of oil a year
and uh it's uh still not the best state they have a lot of unemployment a lot of
people on public assistance they have also almost
never voted for a democratic presidential candidate
they've been red since nixon and beyond and i'm talking solid red there's no
wavering with these people the median home price
in oklahoma is 127 thousand dollars the median home size is
fifteen hundred and eight square feet and number one arkansas
arkansas is bordered by missouri tennessee mississippi louisiana texas
and oklahoma so they don't have the best
neighbors texas and tennessee are decent but yeah everyone else they could
probably do without probably brings them down a little bit
arkansas has some of the country's most stunning geography
that's a fact that's how they got their nickname the natural state
they've also been a red state since forever they are so red
they're scarlet red they did vote for clinton both times but that's because
he's a hometown boy i think most of them still refer to him
as a slick willy but the median home price in arkansas is
a hundred and twenty two thousand two hundred dollars that's not bad money
the median home size is fifteen hundred square feet so yeah
arkansas is definitely one of the cheapest places
to buy a house in a red state all right so that's today's list i hope
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