These comments were taken from a town in Alabama. I would say Oklahoma and Alabama are very close politically and economically speaking. Keep this in mind, in the recent Election of 2016, of the states which went blue for Hillary Clinton, those states in 2016 contributed 64% of all tax revenue collected by the U.S. Treasury. The red states which went for Donald Trump contributed 36% of overall tax revenues. States like Oklahoma, Alabama, Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, West Virginia, Kentucky are negative sum tax states. That is, these states don’t pay as much in to the U.S. Treasury as they receive in various forms of federal tax dollars being spent in their various state tax jurisdictions.
So…here’s some comments from Alabama citizens on the shithole situation.