I've cited the Rockefeller Institute's data elsewhere in this discussion, so am glad that someone else is aware of it. >A typical summation in the news media l

I've cited the Rockefeller Institute's data elsewhere in this discussion, so am glad that someone else is aware of it. >A typical summation in the news media looks like this article, https://www.tampabay.com/opinion/2022/01/22/blue-states-pay- https://www.tampabay.com/opinion/2022/01/22/blue-states-pay-... Ugh, what an awful article. The author, putatively a Floridian, conveniently twists the data to support his thesis: * He calls Florida a "Republican state". It's about as swingiest a swing state can be right now, and has been such for decades. * He calls Virginia another "Republican state", I presume because it has a Republican governor. It also has voted for Democratic presidential candidates going back some years. It's also a swing state, but certainly less so than Florida is. * Worst of all, he cuts off the data to obscure the important point of the Rockefeller data, which is that (as I wrote elsewhere) it's not so much "blue states", but NY/NJ/CT/MA that subsidize the rest of the country. They played the same role a century ago when MA was about as safe a Republican state as any in the country while NY was with OH the most important swing state.