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s far as "liberal" gov's of CA, IL and NY
NY has a tie in the state legislature between Rs and Ds, and has plenty of RandD govs.
CA has a R gov
IL goes back and forth as well.
NY,CA,IL have larger social programs yes that's true, but, they also have larger population density and more difficult issues to deal with than the smaller often largely rural subsidized states they are often compared to.
The Economist actually took a far more serious look at the differences between states in the U.S. and came to more interesting broader conclusions about comparing growth, taxes, education, quality of life, employment rates, salaries of the jobs, etc...
I'd advise anyone tempted to take the WSJ _opinion_ at face value to give that series in The Economist (~July 12 or so) a read.
sorry I got cut off trying to ammend my comment.
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