[2banana]

Also - right to work vs forced unionization...

[thulldud]

And as long as the Red states let Americans keep more of what they earn, jobs will unevenly flow their way.

And lib-voting blue-staters will move there and vote up the taxes until equilibrium is reached.

Equal misery for all.

[Carry_Okie]

While the trend cited is indeed positive, blue states in general (such as New Jersey, Connecticut, and California) contribute far more in net Federal revenues than do the red states listed above (such as Wyoming and South Dakota), many of which are net Federal recipients.

[KC_Conspirator]

Yes, but like locusts, liberals destroy their own blue feeding grounds and then move to ripe red feeding grounds and repeat.

[Clemenza]

Maryland = Government employees.

Delaware= DuPont.

[hermgem]

Blue States are unwilling to change but directly resist and play stubborn towards adapting and changing.
Their problem is not losing jobs, but rejection by companies to put up stakes and invest for absolute lack of returns on invested capital.
Eploitative unions, politicians, government officials, sit in the wings supported by a partisan media to go right at any newcomer (capitalist) to continue their entrenched routine of "social justice".
These States highlight their skilled labor force, when in fact this force has a preset notion of how companies need to run the place.
Just recall how nortern Governors went on publicized trips to Japan to sway businesses but found these businesses to select and prefer the U.S. south where non-union plants produce efficiently and productively both for employer and labor.
No newcomers equals stagnation at shrinking employment.

[Kuksool]

Many Red State FReepers huss and moan about Blue State transplants moving into their communities and turning them Blue. The question is - Why don’t conservatives remind their new neighhbors of the failed liberal policies that they escaped from and show how the conservatism made the Red States great?

[Carry_Okie]

Here is the net balance of payments by state.

[philled]

Aren’t more red states right-to-work states? I’ve seen announcements about manufacturers moving operations from union areas to non. Wasn’t there just a auto factory that shifted 4,000 jobs from MI to GA?

[Alberta's Child]

Very interesting statistics, but I suspect they are a bit misleading. The states with the highest “red-state” job growth seem to be skewed towards major producers in what has been the most robust sectors of the economy in the last five years (energy). Only Florida and Nevada don’t fit that description in the list.

[napscoordinator]

To be fair, the blue states are pretty established especially in the urban areas. Many Red states are still growing which brings in new jobs and population.

[samm1148]

Just a friendly warning from blue PA. What socialists do is use federal money to beef up hiring in the urban areas. They use affirmative action to bring in uneducated, mostly minority (democrat voters) thus increasing the population in those areas.

Depending on the structure of a state government the socialists usually take over the state houses. Money is soon funneled off of rural areas creating a master serf relationship between the workers and parasites in the cities.

I seen this growing up in Maryland where tribute was taken from the western counties for the trash in Baltimore. PA is largely run by Philly and Pittsburgh now.

You red staters need to think about defeating affirmative action laws and putting your cities on a pay as you go basis so this doesn't happen there.

[cappy26]

Thats a no brainer—the blue states are loaded with labor unions which add costs of up to two times for any good or service consumed.

Red states mostly labor union free produce cheaper goods and services,thats why many moving to red states

[Springman]

Ping.