It makes economic sense for the Blue states to secede. As it happens, almost
to a state, the Red states are parasitic in economic terms.
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/30/opinion/30PINK.html">http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/30/opinion/30PINK.html</a>
..............Republicans seem to have become the new welfare party — their constituents live off tax dollars paid by people who vote Democratic. Of course, not all federal spending is wasteful. But Republicans are having their pork and eating it too. Voters in red states like Idaho, Montana and Wyoming are some of the country's fiercest critics of government, yet they're also among the biggest recipients of federal largess. Meanwhile, Democratic voters in the coastal blue states — the ones who are often portrayed as shiftless moochers — are left to carry the load..................
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