The blue states wouldn’t let us go. Who do you think is paying their bills?
I would second that, if not for the fact that New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut have been subsidizing the rest of the country (including the South) for almost a century. We give considerably more than we get back from the Feds.
LOL. The federal revenue from blue states in nearly 3 times that of the federal revenue from red states.
Blue $1,975,116,492,000.00
Red $695,342,860,000.00
Federal revenue came from IRS by way of wikipedia (won't apologize for its use in reporting hard data)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_tax_revenue_by_state
Breakdown of red and blue states from 2008 presidential election.
http://www.npr.org/news/specials/election2008/2008-election-map.html#/president?view=race08