http://twitchy.com/grateful-calvin/2024/12/24/jobs-in-red-states-vs-blue-states-stephen-moor-bls-chart-n2405649
One of our favorite personality traits of the left is how they LOVE to constantly remind America how much better they are than all of the rest of us, specifically how superior they are to all conservatives.
The left lives in the most sophisticated cities in America, while conservatives are a bunch of rubes who live in barns in flyover country and chew on stalks of hay, right? They particularly like to point out that the states with the highest education rates are blue states, while people in red states all drop out of school in the seventh grade ... or something.
They, of course, fail to mention that most of those cities have become crime-ridden wastelands under one-party Democrat rule. And they REALLY don't like it when you point out that education does not equal intelligence (especially with the state of many American colleges and universities).
That's because, under the watchful, despotic eye of The Department of Education, "education" has been transformed into "indoctrination." Possessing a diploma doesn't mean squat towards showing smarts.
Yesterday, conservative writer Stephen Moore pointed out another highly inconvenient truth for the left's false air of superiority with a simple chart from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) showing that red states are where people go to work while the economies in blue states seem to be crashing.
Stephen Moore (@StephenMoore) ~ Where are the jobs? Red states.
Where aren't the jobs? Blue states.
Left-wing states are starting to resemble the dormant economies of socialist Europe!
As an aside, I wasn't completely sure how Stephen Moore determined the party control for each state in this chart ... because, for instance, Virginia being "Leans Republican" didn't initially make sense to me. However, I believe he is using party control of the major executive offices and the legislature in each state to make his determination, such as ...
http://ballotpedia.org/Gubernatorial_and_legislative_party_control_of_state_government
As you can see at the bottom of the BLS chart, these numbers cover non-farm payrolls from the period of 2020-2024 -- also known as the Biden Debacle. Outside of Nevada, where the hospitality industry will always create jobs, there isn't a state that even leans blue in the top 10 and only two in the top 20. Nevada is also barely blue; Trump won the state by three points in 2024.
But again, if you're going to be consistent, the determination of party dominance is not which presidential candidate carried each state in the latest election.
Meanwhile, the bottom of the chart is a nearly solid wall of blue.
No wonder D.C. is such a horror. There seems to be nothing else to do there. And you can be certain that the tiny number that D.C. DOES report are all government jobs.
Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) ~ {Replying to @StephenMoore} Wow.
Wow is right, Senator Cruz. So much for those high education rates. Maybe the blue states should focus more on trade schools -- and policies that do not kill job growth and employment opportunities.
Randy Barnett (@randybarnettttt) ~ {Replying to @StephenMoore} Democrats destroy.
It is, after all, what they do best. Just look at the liberal strongholds of Massachusetts, New York, and Illinois.
Yikes.
Great work, Maura Healey, Kathy Hochul, and J.D. Pritzker.
But, don't be too hard on Hochul ... she's been very busy making New York City subways 'safe.'
Dawn Niebuhr (@NiebuhrDawn) ~ {Replying to @StephenMoore} Look at how @SenSanders has helped Vermonters after 40 yrs! Kidding! He hasn’t!
He sure has helped himself though, with his three homes.
Yep ... for the Marxist devotee that he is, ol' Bernie sure has made himself into a wealthy member of the "evil Bourgeoisie."
Michael Buckley (@mediamaven52) ~ {Replying to @StephenMoore} By design as planned. Everyone hop on board the welfare train.
Right? Who needs to work when Big Daddy Government will take care of you from cradle to grave?
But it turns out that most Americans WANT to work and are fleeing blue states for better opportunities, even liberals. They just need to remember to leave their voting record behind and not pack that into their U-Hauls.
DJ~I STAND W/DJT (@KekNative) ~ {Replying to @StephenMoore} The blue state people will move to a red state and vote like they always have. They don't get it!
Democrats don't get it because they are congenitally stupid. However ... so far, anyway ... we have been able to beat incoming libtards into submission, here in Texas. I still think the State of Texas should suspend voting rights for all previously registered Democrats moving into the state for at least 20 years.
That is a worry, but the left's two most hated states, Florida and Texas, have both remained solidly red even after huge numbers of New Yorkers and Californians have fled there.
Maybe they're capable of learning after all. But if they have, we doubt they learned that lesson from a university.
One of the lowest red states on the list, West Virginia, was decimated by the Biden administration. But help is on the way for Mountaineers across the state.
Patrick Morrisey (@MorriseyWV) ~ I will be laser focused on improving West Virginia’s placement on this list. We are going to #Rise and be that shining state in the mountains. #WVWild&Wonderful
Between the Trump administration and incoming governor Patrick Morrissey, we don't think the government will be telling West Virginians to 'learn to code' anymore.
Nah, don't need more people learning to code ... we have all of those "journalists" fired by CNN, MSNBC, and other lamestream DNC propaganda networks who are taking up that slack, don'tcha know.
AnthonyC (@AnthonyCAdkison) ~ {Replying to @StephenMoore} I'll take things Robert Reich just doesn't understand for $800.
HA.
Oh, there are SO many things the Lilliputian Reich does not understand. But this is definitely among them.
Yeah, because not only is Reich a physical midget, he's a mental midget, as well.
We'll remember this chart, however, the next time a leftist tries to tell us how superior blues states are. Maybe they're just lashing out because they are desperate and looking for a job.
And who knows? Maybe a red-state employer would even hire them.
Just as long as they don't identify as 'they/them' on their job application.
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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