Red States Are Welfare States

"Conservatives are the people who pay the taxes. They're not the people who get the pork."

-Newt Gingrich, quoted in today's Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

"The correlation between donor states and so-called blue states is fairly strong: 13 of the 19 states that Senator Kerry won in 2004 sent more to Washington in taxes than they got back in spending.
Meanwhile, most of the so-called red states profit from federal taxing and spending: 25 of the 31 states President Bush won. “They pay their taxes too,” said Tax Foundation President Scott Hodge, “but those payments are not as high because of the progressive income tax.”

-From a March 16, 2006 report published by the non-partisan Tax Foundation

Incidentally, the reporter who wrote the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review story is named David Brown.

What is it about being named David Brown that makes people write nonsense?