> Don't be surprised at the non-ironic bootstrap language coming from red state americans - it's the reality for many of them. The ten states where federal aid

> Don't be surprised at the non-ironic bootstrap language coming from red state americans - it's the reality for many of them. The ten states where federal aid makes up the highest percentage of the state budget are: Mississippi, Louisiana, New Mexico, Arizona, Kentucky, Montana, Tennessee, Wyoming, Alaska, Missouri https://taxfoundation.org/federal-aid-reliance-rankings/ https://taxfoundation.org/federal-aid-reliance-rankings/ The ten states the highest percentage of food stamp recipients are: Mississippi, Oregon, Tennessee, New Mexico, Louisiana, West Virginia, Kentucky, Alabama, Florida, and South Carolina https://cdn.theatlantic.com/assets/media/img/posts/2014/05/Slide2/cf89185a3.jpg https://cdn.theatlantic.com/assets/media/img/posts/2014/05/S... I still think Joseph Heller had that kind of ideology pegged best: > He was a long-limbed farmer, a God-fearing, freedom-loving, law-abiding rugged individualist who held that federal aid to anyone but farmers was creeping socialism. [...] Major Major's father was an outspoken champion of economy in government, provided it did not interfere with the sacred duty of government to pay farmers as much as they could get for all the alfalfa they produced that no one else wanted or for not producing any alfalfa at all.