Poor Southerners Vote Republican and Don't Know Why On Friday's Real Time with Bill Maher, videographer Alexandra Pelosi (the daughter of Democratic Majority Leader Nancy Peolosi), took her video camera on the road to start reporting from all over America as we head into the final stretch of the 2012 presidential campaign season. For her first project, Pelosi went to the poorest state in America: Mississippi. The state is overwhelmingly conservative and votes Republican time and time again. The only thing is that these people cannot figure out why they vote Republican when it's against their own best interests.Well gosh, these people weren't unfairly cherry picked, were they?Bill Maher would never, ever do that, would he?Maybe if they voted for Repubs because they thought Repubs would pay their rent and bills like Obama supporters thought, you'd be pleased.