I suspected the blue residents of red states were the ones responsible for making red states look like the biggest gov. dependents. Any state with a large population of black and Hispanic residents probably receives a lot of fed money going to those ethnicities. Maybe the states that have Appalachia running through them have the largest populations of whites receiving gov. aid.
“Maybe the states that have Appalachia running through them have the largest populations of whites receiving gov. aid.”
In the past few decades, whites have started the same nonsense as urban minorities (breeding “golden ticket” bastards for money, supplementing that with disability fraud, etc.). Welfare reform in the 90s was to deal with the rising population (outside of the welfare reservations) that had begun playing the game. I don’t know which states have more “takers” anymore (as that population has been dispersed), but high-cost states (east & west coasts, upper midwest) contribute a lot to the tax till due to the inflated salaries.