How do you explain the fact that most Southern states receive more in federal money than they pay and that most northern states pay more than they receive?
Conservative PEOPLE working in high paying jobs.
Those PEOPLE will move to a freer economy if the opportunity exists.
(States don’t pay income tax. The welfare class in the blue “states” outnumber the productive class.)
Very, very few major military bases (I can just think of Minot and Wright-Pat off the top of my head) are in the north. Billions and billions of federal dollars go to all the many air, naval, and army bases in the south. Most of our military budget goes to the Southern US.
You have to admit that most of the dysfunctional major cities, which receive enormous amounts of federal funding, are in the blue states. (Naturally that statement does not apply to NO and Miami.)