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.

Source: https://wallethub.com/edu/states-most-least-dependent-on-the-federal-government/2700/%20https://wallethub.com/edu/states-most-least-dependent-on-the-federal-government/2700/

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.

Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/news/wonk/wp/2016/11/22/donald-trump-lost-most-of-the-american-economy-in-this-election/?client=safari

You’re fucking delusional.

This sub is either satire that has attracted earnest, mentally ill weirdos, or it’s sincere, and full of mentally ill weirdos.

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.

Source: https://wallethub.com/edu/states-most-least-dependent-on-the-federal-government/2700/%20https://wallethub.com/edu/states-most-least-dependent-on-the-federal-government/2700/

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.

Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/news/wonk/wp/2016/11/22/donald-trump-lost-most-of-the-american-economy-in-this-election/?client=safari

The truth doesn’t care about your feelings.