Rich Republicans?

It is a common knowledge that Republicans are rich and always act protecting their money. I decided to check online, and to my surprise it is the opposite, at least on the level of states: "blue" states are richer, "red" are poorer.

Maps: http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2005/05/median_income_d.html

From http://old.nationalreview.com/nrof_buzzcharts/buzzcharts200507110903.asp
July 11, 2005, 9:03 a.m.
Rich Republicans? By Jerry Bowyer
Not yet. The red states are still number two, and working hard for a living.

The notion that the GOP is the party of the rich simply doesn’t match the economic reality.

States with the highest per capita income trend Democrat; the states with the lowest per capita income trend Republican. The top ten “blue states,” for example, had an average per capita personal income of $36,327, which is 20 percent higher than the top ten “red states,” which had an average of $30,275.

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Isn't it interesting? I even found a blog that discussed why Republicans are so stupid that being poor they vote Republican. It was a bit of provocation, not abusive.

So, perception is everything. We have to change it, and there are many ways. Hope we can work on it after elections. If we find ways that correspond with our interests and talents, it will be fun. My dream is to have Youtube channel. This is a beauty of America where anything is possible.

Another interesting economic analisis on stimulus:
http://mercatus.org/publication/stimulusfacts

Congressional maps and charts http://www.fairdata2000.com/Congressional/

And next report is simply outrageous. Stimulus as a pay-off from Democratic government to it supporters? http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columns/Report-Stimulus-funds-not-targeted-to-states-that-need-jobs-79530417.html

Report: Democratic districts received nearly twice the amount of stimulus funds as GOP districts By: Mark Hemingway 12/16/2009

A new analysis of the $157 billion distributed by the American Reinvestment and Recovery act, popularly known as the stimulus bill, shows that the funds were distributed without regard for what states were most in need of jobs.

“You would think that if the stimulus money was actually spent to create jobs, there would be more stimulus money spent in high unemployment states,” said Veronique de Rugy, a scholar at the Mercatus Center who produced the analysis. "But we don't find any correlation."

The Mercatus Center at George Mason University in Virginia is one of the nation's most respected economic and regulatory think tanks and has a Nobel prize-winning economist on staff. The econometric analysis was done using data provided by Recovery.gov -- the government website devoted to tracking the stimulus data -- as well as a host of other government databases.

Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columns/Report-Stimulus-funds-not-targeted-to-states-that-need-jobs-79530417.html#ixzz0zwsuZZsC