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ONE STATE, TWO STATE, RED STATE, BLUE STATE

November 22, 2004

Our little map of the U.S. showing which states received more in federal spending than they paid in taxes has probably received more attention than anything else we've ever put up on this site. Other than the evenhanded Tax Prof, there seem to be two sorts of views of our map: Democrats complaining about ingrate red states and Republicans complaining about obtuse Democrats.

Somewhere, Roger Sherman is surely bemused.

UPDATE: The most sensible analysis of national voting patterns we've seen is here. It would be great if we could overlay that map with one showing tax payments and federal spending by county, but we have no idea where that could be found.

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