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The epidemic you speak of extends well beyond red states. The former manufacturing cities of coa8stal CT, the Inland Empire, Bakersfield, Oakland and most of industrial NJ, upstate NY and even MA are facing similar challenges, and the Democrat firewall will continue to splinter.
Good to know that the tech oligarchs are as heartless as their industrial and financial predecessors. I see a Butlerian jihad as a likely future.
It's definitely decision time for manufacturing belt. They can try to be progressive like Seattle and Pittsburgh and evolve, or they can be regressive and increasingly suffer. Tech elites are not heartless, we vote to raise taxes on ourselves to allow the government to deal with the negative side effects of increased automation, but it is not our role to save Republican voters from themselves. Our role is to automate, which is a net positive, since more goods and services can be produced cheaper. Distribution is for all American voters to figure out, not just techies. You want to give us a tax cut, instead of taxing the profits we make automating away your jobs, that's your prerogative, we may disagree, but we will take the money and invest it in more automation.