I think you can (blame this on liberals), Kimba. You don't see any conservatives pushing an entitlement mindset, or that all problems in life are due to someone else. When you get that pervasive mindset pushed, as early as public grade-school, and reinforced not just in the upper and undergraduate grades, but by the MSM pudits, that after enough repetition, without a significant countering board, outside of conservative talk radio, folks in those heavily liberal dominated areas, are going to adopt such a mindest of entitlement and victim-hood.
You get folks who think they don't have to abide by police orders. You get women who think that tax payers owe them for having children out of wedlock, because heaven forbid, its not their fault that they're having children they can't support. And the more children, the more they're owed