>More of a business reality from my PO. To me the middle of the USA is an empty space which needs a lot of economic subsidies to keep afloat but likes to hold a voting whip hand. That can only end in tears.
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>ROFL and LOL!!!! I think that you better get your facts straight.. For starters, take a look at this map:
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>https://www.mercatus.org/statefiscalrankings
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>You will see that California and New York rank among the worst economies in the US and are probably the ones that are going to need a lot of economic subsidies to stay afloat. Even Ohio is ranked at #11 while California comes in at 44 and New York comes in at 42. South Dakota and North Dakota are in the very healthy economic shape - coming in at #5 and #4 respectively. Where do you get your information from?

That map you're looking at is misleading and doesn't grasp the whole picture..

California is 2nd fastest growing economy
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/states-fastest-growing-economies_us_576449abe4b0853f8bf0ce6e

California has 3rd best state economy in 2016
https://wallethub.com/edu/states-with-the-best-economies/21697/

California has the 9th fastest growing economy
http://247wallst.com/special-report/2015/06/24/states-with-the-fastest-and-slowest-growing-economies/3/

..and don't forget that California's economy is the WORLDS's sixth largest.

California's recovery is because the voters there got rid of all the republicans and their failed trickle-down economic polices and decided to vote democrat top-to-bottom and taxed the rich. Just take a look at the before-and-after. But I guess I'm feeding the trolls with facts so I will give up and stop.