I took a chart from Beldin's article and added colored dots derived from the chart on the right to give us a feel for how the red/blue/purple/etc status of states correlates with their fiscal health.
And... the only surprises I see are that a red state, Kentucky, is in terrible shape and that several conservative states I thought were fiscally healthy - including my favorite state - are in fact only average. (But, then, New Hampshire is now deemed to be a solid blue state, so I shouldn't be too surprised.)
zz? Are the results an eye-opener to you or were you already aware that blue states and fiscal failure almost always walk hand-in-hand? If you can't bring yourself to see it, try to focus only on the leftmost column of dots (the healthiest states) and the rightmost column (the most diseased states). Try hard...
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