You speak as if these are mutually exclusive wants.
They aren’t.
I just did a bunch of googling and I can’t draw a correlation between red states and blue states and road and water quality whatsoever.
Le sigh.
Another bizarro situation where a lack of knowledge of how Government actually works is used to impugn Government.
Drawing a line at "states" and road quality is completely meaningless. Interstate freeways are funded by the Federal gas tax. Often what that means is places like Kentucky have great freeways because Mitch McConnell is the Senate Majority Leader, and places with a lot of turnover probably are worse at bringing home federal pork.
Most states fund State highways - for example IL-47 headed down to Champaign from the West Burbs. Those roads are state funded - but even there it comes down to whom Madigan decides to bless with more roads money.
But roads below that level are funded at the local level. When you cross the County line out of Sonoma County into Marin County - suddenly the roads become butter smooth. You're in the same state, but the roads are drastically different. If you go out to Modoc County, they have almost no local money to throw at the roads. Same state.
Even then, the comparison is pretty meaningless. Sonoma County has bad roads because it's a primarily rural county with a lot of farms and ranches, with a huge amount of small roads, often in rugged terrain, and with more faultlines than Marin.
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