2017 Update: State's Rights

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There are only 750K people in N Dakota & it's not exactly where wealthy people want to live so they don't put a helluva lot into the federal kitty with their middling median incomes. Ag subsidies are large, I suspect.

http://www.usgovernmentrevenue.com/federal_revenue_by_state.php?chart=Z0&year=2014&units=b&rank=T

Yeah that Fox article I linked above said ND was second only to TX in Ag handouts.