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Conservatives go to red states and liberals go to blue as the country grows more polarized (apnews.com)
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[–] 0 points 3 years ago (3 children)

That does make more sense in context

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    The argument is that blue states make more money and pay more taxes. Those taxes are then used to prop up red states' economy. But that said, based on what I've researched in the last 10 minutes, it appears to be more of a mixed bag than I thought and the answer as to which "side" is more dependent on federal funding is murky. This is the best resource I've found that breaks it all down.

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  • [–] 20 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 child)

    https://wallethub.com/edu/states-most-least-dependent-on-the-federal-government/2700

    That's a better study honestly. I won't be trusting an article written by a journalist with a mononym, thanks .. that article you listed puts California as the single most dependent state, and that's absurd. There's no study there, it's just the mononym journalist's very poorly organized citations..

    And the study I linked does demonstrate that red states are more dependent on the federal government than blue states, by ten ranks on average.

    Edit that's actually just a crappy blog and that journalist isn't a journalist at all, she's a video game blogger. Yeah.

    Unreal. You must have gone to like page 12 of Google results to find one that gave you California as the worst owner, and without any irony at all that blog you linked is called "balancing everything". FFS talk about disingenuous "sharing a source".

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