President of the red states. President of the non self-reliant states?

Via Atrios, we took a look at a table of federal taxation vs. expenditures for the states in the year 2001. We thought we'd map that, and compare it with how each state voted in the Electoral College in 2000. It's not a perfect correlation, but generally speaking Bush's support comes from "smaller Federal government" states that, ironically, get more from Uncle Sam than they give.





PERSONAL NOTE: We have argued the merits of the Electoral College with the proprietors at Busy, Busy, Busy and now admit that, indeed, low-population states do wield disproportionate influence over budgetary policy. (Previously, we thought it wasn't a significant problem.)

posted by Quiddity at 5/15/2003 10:17:00 AM