# Net Federal dollars, Blue states vs Red

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/net-federal-dollars-blue-states-vs-red/274025>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [November 10, 2004, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/net-federal-dollars-blue-states-vs-red/274025 "2004-11-10T16:05:22Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
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**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\
**Post date:** [November 11, 2004, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/net-federal-dollars-blue-states-vs-red/274025/21 "2004-11-11T00:45:22Z")

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> [@keno](#):
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> Several of my co-workers are asserting that the Red states are home to self-reliant, hard working, God fearing folks, while the Blue states are populated by heathen leeches.

I suspect folks like these are especially invulnerable to any evidence you can produce proving otherwise.

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