Posted on 07/18/2026 10:12:42 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Republicans disheartened by growing fears of electoral losses at the federal level this fall can take some solace in evidence from a new, soon-to-be-released study that we coauthored for Unleash Prosperity, a group focused on promoting pro-growth policies. The graph below shows the results from that study, revealing that in this century economic growth has been substantially greater in the Republican Red states.
The new study focuses on the more recent years 2020-2024, using modern statistical techniques to show that even after other factors impacting economic change—like climate, the proportion of the population working in manufacturing or producing oil, or the degree of urbanization—are taken into account, Republican-dominated states grew sharply faster than Democratic oriented ones. Controlling for several potential competing explanatory factors, solidly Red states typically had over 25 percent more growth in personal income in the first part of this decade than their Blue counterparts.
Why? Republicans tend to have greater faith in markets to allocate resources and distribute income and wealth and are less inclined to tax the public heavily to fund massive social services, which research shows weaken work effort and business investment—key components in economic growth. For example, the highest income earners in heavily Blue New York City pay over 14 percent in state and local income taxes on some of their income, compared with zero in a more Red city like Miami or Dallas. All eight states with zero state income tax are Red or, in one case, New Hampshire, a swing state that has a history of electing both Democratic and Republican political leaders.
Our statistical analysis confirms that one of the biggest sources of income growth in the Red states has come from the in-migration of generally highly productive people fleeing high-tax Blue States. The world’s richest man,...
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The blue states are trying like heck to get some more communists into the federal government so they can redistribute that red state wealth.
I had to stop there. We will do well this fall.
I agree. The Democrats want to get as much wealth, while they can get it. Prosperity is never an objective for them.
Intelligent "Republicans" have a concern about this, as is reasonable given historical trends that may have to be overcome.
Republicans who are "disheartened" by growing fears of electoral losses are pussies and black-piller's who want to drag everyone down to their level.
Of course, this is Newsweak, so they would try to make their point from this perspective.
It's that the means of production exist at all.
Cargo cult economics.
You’re right. I didn’t stop there, but any confidence in the credibility of the article did.
The war in Iran is very unpopular. It is very expensive which is a problem for low tax conservatives.
The focus on vote fraud is inside baseball stuff that makes politics appear dirty. Many good people will stay home and not vote because they don’t want to get involved in dirty politics.
Re-Districting favors Republicans in the House, but not the Senate or Governor seats.
On the other hand:
Inflation is lower Trump than Biden. Our inflation message should always compare 2026 to Biden years.
Unemployment is low, business is booming, stock market is booming.
People love DOGE. Anti-Fraud victories need to be publicized more.
On the 3d hand:
2A, Pro-life are no longer the issues they used to be.
What issues do we have to motivate turnout of our voters?
Democrats/DSA have an extremely large and effective get-out-the-vote machine. Republicans/MAGA have “Ballot chasers” in a couple states. “Ballot chasers” need to be in every swing US Senate and swing governor state.
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