It's hard to believe anyone can be stupid enough to think public assistance is dominated by republicans.
I've seen the way these libtards put together their studies on this issue. If you'll notice, it's always a small, rural community they use that is normally made up of old people, so there is a very tiny amount of money involved, to make it a high percentage of total income. And they normally don't just stop in these studies to use ss, medicare, and such. They normally also include roads, schools, and any other kind of spending they can dig out of the woodwork. So when you add that kind of spending in, and divide it by the small number of people in rural counties, it gives the appearance of the county being a net taker of public funds.
They don't like the avg voter knowing that there are gargantuan amounts of money going to blue cities and counties. So they come up with these 'studies', if you can call them that, to attempt to make republican counties look like the takers. This was of course after their previous bogus studies attempting to claim that red states were taking more money than blue states. When it was pointed out that it was dem counties in those states that were the parasites, they proceeded to ratchet down the deceit to the county level.
You need 'studies' to convince people of the ridiculous, like republicans being the takers of society and not the democrats.
I just read one of these idiot studies the other day done about counties in the state of washington. They are followed by a load of comments from liberals who actually buy this baloney and go on and on about how "those right wing nuts" are the actual parasites and not the liberals.
How stupid does one have to be?