I think the largest red city in Texas is Lubbock, which is in fact a complete shit hole. You are more than x2 as likely to be a victim of a violent crime in Lubbock than in Austin.

Even if Texas had put all the oil into a sovereign fund, like at least one of the scandanavian states, I don't think they would come close to beating Alaska, at least not per capita. AK just has way more oil and way fewer people than TX

Florida cities are pretty liberal too. Except maybe Jacksonville but that's nearly In Georgia. And Naples but that's all expat northerners, and there is nobody more racist than the northerners that move down here.

Sounds like communism.

That's not accurate - Florida pays in more than we get back by about 11billion, Texas 68 billion. Because we have idiot government that doesn't use matching funds for Medicaid, mostly.

California pays 276B more than it receives because it's an economic engine.

Virginia has the biggest gap in the other direction, receiving 89B more than it pays in.

It's a lot more mixed than just red or blue - some democratic states are better at leveraging the federal money on behalf of their state.