Should democratic states and counties pay welfare to republican states and counties

Democratic states and counties are in generell signficantly more educated and wealthier than republican ones thus federal and state taxes payed in by democratic states and counties subsidies republican ones is this fair.

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ElwoodBlues · M

Significantly more productive, too!

Yeah, I think we should continue to pay them welfare. But it would be nice if once in a while they would say "thank you."

Kwek00 · 41-45, M

@ElwoodBlues This picture shows the counties though... not states. Like in the blue part you see:

Harris, TX
Tarrant, TX
Finnelas, FL
Duval, FL

And in the red parts the few things you can make out are:

Nassay NY
Suffolk, NY
Kern, CA

Which sould smash the illusion that some people in here create, that a state is either homogenous democratic or homogenous republican. But if the conversation goes on about the county, which is also asked, then you get even more of a divide, and we are talking about another level of power. And if we are going to look even more closely, on the indiviudal leve, we'll probably find red and blue voters in all of the counties too. Because they are ussually also not homogenous. As I said in my message on this post: [i]"[...] there is nothing more destructive for a welfare system organised on a federal level, then citizens and political actors talking about specific groups or territory that get more then others."[/i].

The language that I find in this post [i](not from you, but from others)[/i], is the same language that is used in Catalonia (Spain) and Flanders (Belgium) by groups that use it as an an argument to secede their "state" from their federal governement.