Anyone notice Blue states tend to me more fiscally responsible?

[popeyespappy]

This is one of those facts that send the conservative cockroaches scurrying to the insult bag. When presented with the fact that Commie-fornia utterly kicks the shit out of every red state in the union in terms of wealth, suddenly we're communists. When the flood happened last week and the week before, red state rubes were expressing glee over it.

God, I wish secession was a realistic possibility. It isn't, but it's nice to fantasize about California, Oregon, and Washington just bailing the fuck out and leaving that giant swath of red dirt and rocks to its own ignorant devices.

Whether or not California kicks the shit out of every red state depends on how you calculate shit kicking. In 2014 Cali had a GDP of $2.31 trillion. The GDP that year for Texas which is the next largest state by population was $1.65 trillion. So yes Cali's GDP for the year was 40% larger than that of Texas. BUT, at 38.8 million the population of California was almost 44% larger than that of Texas at 26.96 million. Giving us a per capita GDP in Texas of $61,201 vs $59,536 for California. On average the people of Texas are 2.8% more productive than the people of California.