Politics and base closures
Fri May 13, 2005 at 09:23:17 AM PDT
Go to this handy link (
http://www.defenselink.mil/brac/pdf/Appendix_C_FinalUpdated.pdf), and you can see the state by state impacts on job gain/loss based on the new BRAC list released this morning.
Would it surprise you to know that the Blue states get screwed, while the Red states made out quite well? I didn't think so.
Total results:
Blue States lose (-24,289) jobs
Red States gain 12,538 jobs.
[snark] I'm sure politics had nothing to do with it. [/snark]
State by state results below:
Cross posted on my blog: www.ilpundit.blogspot.com
A state by state list follows -- sorted by election result:
State Net Gain/Loss Election Result
CA -2018 BLUE
CT -8586 BLUE
DE +91 BLUE
DC -6496 BLUE
HI -298 BLUE
IL -2698 BLUE
ME -6938 BLUE
MD +9293 BLUE
MA +491 BLUE
MI +125 BLUE
MN -262 BLUE
NH +4 BLUE
NJ -3760 BLUE
NY -1071 BLUE
OR -1083 BLUE
PA -1878 BLUE
RI +531 BLUE
VT + 56 BLUE
MN +760 BLUE
WI -552 BLUE
GUAM -95 NONE
Pt RICO -161 NONE
AL +2664 RED
ALASKA -4619 RED
AZ -550 RED
AK +3585 RED
CO +4917 RED
FL +2757 RED
GA +7423 RED
ID -659 RED
IN +2197 RED
IA -6 RED
KS +3582 RED
KY -3658 RED
LA -1297 RED
MS -1678 RED
MO -3679 RED
MT -124 RED
NE +213 RED
NV +1059 RED
NM -2849 RED
NC -422 RED
ND -2645 RED
OH +241 RED
OK +3919 RED
SC +709 RED
SD -3797 RED
TN +1088 RED
TX +6150 RED
UT -446 RED
VA -1574 RED
WY +37 RED
