Use the following web sites or other viable, factual sights to PROVE your point of view.
Example #1 - Republicans believe in smaller government so as a result those states that are historically conservative or republican should have lower debt ratio's per capita.
Example #2 - Democrats believe that government is a means to cure or help with many social issues such as health care for one example.
Use these following sites to prove that you are correct. Please state if you are Liberal, Democrat, Republican, Conservative, Libertarian or other.
The first is this forum's home page
www.city-data.com can be sorted in multiple ways to show as an example the unemployment rate by state.
Next up, is
www.usdebtclock.org the site has information regarding US and state debt, revenue, per capita costs etc...
Third up, is
Unemployment Rates for States this particular link goes to the unemployment by state. However you can click on Data Tools to see a lot of information regarding employment and labor statistics
Please feel free to add other viable sites as needed.
My first challenge. Prove that the Historically conservative states are wealthier than historically democrat states.