The Bureau of Economic Analysis has released two reports showing that states going for President Bush in the last election are considerably poorer than the ones that went for Kerry. The higher the per capita income of a state, the more it trends Democrat. The top ten blue states had a per capita income 20 percent higher than the top ten red states. So much for Howard Dean-esque stereotypes of Republicans who've never worked a day in their lives....

From the Federalist Patriot