Republican States Are More Dependent On Government

How so? Dependent is not a hard word to understand and it seems perfect applicable.

de·pend·ent adjective
Contingent on or determined by.
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You can't be serious. Averages are completely valid statistical measurements and quite useful for measuring a central tendency.

That is quite a stretch. You posted an infographic, which is just a snapshot of the data. But they also posted scatter plots and data tables that give all the "actionable" information used to make the analysis.

To me, that is cherrypicking data. New York was #49 in one category, but was #9, #9 and #15 in the others.

Again ignoring that North Dakota is #49, #46, and #42 in the other categories. You are studiously disregarding the averages across the variables.

It is federal income that comes into the state. States with bases are dependent on that base income.

 

In fact there really are no true red or blue counties in the country they are all shades of purple.

 

They actually go on both sides of the story, in my experience. Arianna Huffington, the founder and a columnist, was a long-time conservative who shifted into a moderate and ran for office as an independent. It's not a liberal shill by any means.

 

Only if you lump moderates with the liberals like so many right wingers do.