American politics: how much does blue subsidize red?

I took a table showing total appropriations by state from Federal Dollars: What Came to and Left Your State in 2005 and color-coded each row by whether the state went for Bush or Kerry in 2004. Sadly, I couldn't find post-2006 numbers yet. I would have been interested to see how things changed after the 2006 election, but those numbers probably won't be available until 2009 or 2010.

State	Rank1	Per dollar expenditures2	Total Expenditures (millions)3	IRS Collection (millions)4	Total Expenditures per Capita
United States	N/A	$1.01	$2,284,760	$2,268,895.12	$7,568
New Mexico	1	$3.10	$20,604	$6,642.05	$10,698
Mississippi	2	$2.96	$26,181	$8,859.59	$9,001
West Virginia	3	$2.94	$16,087	$5,469.75	$8,868
Alaska	4	$2.62	$9,230	$3,519.75	$13,916
North Dakota	5	$2.26	$6,608	$2,928.61	$10,413
Montana	6	$2.17	$7,814	$3,596.11	$8,359
District of Columbia	7	$2.08	$37,859	$18,189.10	$65,045
Alabama	8	$2.06	$42,061	$20,398.81	$9,248
Maine	9	$1.99	$11,356	$5,717.40	$8,615
South Dakota	10	$1.95	$7,481	$3,844.24	$9,655
Hawaii	11	$1.90	$12,699	$6,680.48	$9,974
South Carolina	12	$1.89	$32,044	$16,972.41	$7,545
Kentucky	13	$1.82	$34,653	$19,035.72	$8,305
Virginia	14	$1.75	$95,097	$54,430.45	$12,572
Wyoming	15	$1.55	$4,782	$3,086.24	$9,399
Louisiana	16	$1.55	$39,628	$25,647.32	$8,792
Arizona	17	$1.53	$44,639	$29,177.14	$7,498
Maryland	18	$1.42	$66,720	$46,824.58	$11,936
Vermont	19	$1.40	$4,645	$3,311.37	$7,463
Utah	20	$1.27	$14,823	$11,648.47	$5,952
Idaho	21	$1.23	$9,598	$7,808.79	$6,715
Missouri	22	$1.22	$48,273	$39,555.06	$8,326
Iowa	23	$1.19	$20,345	$17,167.63	$6,860
Florida	24	$1.16	$134,544	$115,562.30	$7,572
Oregon	25	$1.16	$22,792	$19,713.74	$6,263
Tennessee	26	$1.15	$48,288	$42,060.54	$8,108
Indiana	27	$1.12	$42,347	$37,751.79	$6,758
Kansas	28	$1.09	$20,492	$18,798.43	$7,457
Pennsylvania	29	$1.05	$99,503	$95,087.60	$8,021
New Hampshire	30	$1.02	$8,331	$8,205.04	$6,375
Washington	31	$1.01	$46,338	$45,996.76	$7,365
North Carolina	32	$0.98	$59,162	$60,525.67	$6,822
Oklahoma	33	$0.97	$27,637	$28,510.40	$7,799
Michigan	34	$0.95	$64,787	$68,500.02	$6,414
California	35	$0.91	$242,023	$265,783.66	$6,694
Georgia	36	$0.91	$59,846	$66,063.78	$6,553
Wisconsin	37	$0.89	$33,749	$37,973.25	$6,105
Texas	38	$0.88	$148,683	$169,392.72	$6,485
Massachusetts	39	$0.87	$55,830	$64,373.14	$8,678
Rhode Island	40	$0.87	$8,423	$9,712.56	$7,846
Arkansas	41	$0.85	$20,387	$24,012.31	$7,345
Nevada	42	$0.84	$14,089	$16,710.69	$5,840
Colorado	43	$0.83	$31,173	$37,769.49	$6,685
Ohio	44	$0.80	$77,881	$96,836.57	$6,790
Nebraska	45	$0.79	$12,785	$16,121.65	$7,272
New York	46	$0.73	$144,876	$198,562.27	$7,500
Illinois	47	$0.68	$80,778	$119,182.24	$6,328
Connecticut	48	$0.67	$30,774	$46,131.12	$8,791
New Jersey	49	$0.57	$58,617	$101,997.48	$6,735
Minnesota	50	$0.46	$31,067	$67,148.61	$6,060
Delaware	51	$0.42	$5,495	$13,227.40	$6,528
Other	N/A	$2.45	$40,837	$16,672.85	N/A

(1) According to Ratio of Amount Returned per Dollar Paid in Taxes. (2) Expenditures in State per Dollar Paid by State Taxpayers. (3) CFFR in millions. (4) IRS Total Collection (in millions)

Red states received $1,177,262 million (almost $1.2 trillion) back from the federal government, after sending $1,009,904.48 million ($1 trillion) collected by the IRS.

Blue states received $1,066,662 million in federal spending (approximately $1 trillion). The IRS collected 1,242,317.82 million ($1.24 trillion) from blue states. That means a total outflow of $175,655.82 million, or approximately $176 billion dollars. And as you can see from the chart above, many of the harder core blue states are the biggest losers.

Pass that chart around to all your smug neocon friends!