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"Some would say, 'Oh, poor Alabama. It's cut off from the wealth infusion that it gets from New York and California,' " said Lawrence O'Donnell, a veteran Democratic insider and now senior political analyst at MSNBC. "But the more this political condition goes on at the presidential level of the red and blue states, the more you're testing the inclination of the blue states to say, 'So what?' "

Mr. O'Donnell raised the subject of secession on "The McLaughlin Group" during the weekend. "Ninety percent of the red states are welfare-client states of the federal government," said Mr. O'Donnell, who was an aide to Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan.

O'Donnell also said they make more money.

1 -- they make more money because it is 2-5 times more expensive to live in big cities. Trash collectors make $90-$100,000.

2 -- if you make more money, you pay more taxes...period.

3 -- if you subtract those who voted for Bush in these states, then you would find that the Bush voters paid FAR more in taxes than those who voted for him.

4 - these "Blue" areas also "supply" (PER CAPITA) FAR more (violent AND non violent) crime, adult illiteracy, illegitimate children, drug abuse AND PROFITS, poverty, etc. etc.