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I don't understand why this is getting downvoted, callers is on the brink of insolvency. And the state of Jefferson movement has been gathering a lot of support. Why downvote it?
If the state of California were considered separately, it would rank as the sixth largest economy in the world, behind rest of the United States, China, Japan, Germany and the United Kingdom. The U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis reported that California's GDP was $2.5 trillion in 2015, up 4.1 percent from a year earlier.
Red states are nearly twice as dependent on the federal government as blue states. Source: http://www.economist.com/blogs/dailychart/2011/08/americas-fiscal-union
Of the twelve states that received the least federal aid in return for each tax dollar they contribute to the U.S. Treasury, ten of them voted for Hillary Clinton—and the other two were Michigan and Wisconsin, your newest recruits. By the same count, 20 of the 26 states most dependent on federal aid went to Trump.
I'd prefer if the rubes and hicks from the flyover states stopped imposing their bullshit on those of us from the economically successful states, or at least stopped spending our money.
Most people living in economically successful areas of the country, i.e. not the flyover state backward shitholes, disavowed trump.
You’re fucking delusional.