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Often, Democratic-voting blue states are \ "donor states\" - they put more dollars into the federal kitty than they get back in benefits.

Patt Morrison: Is Arnold Governor of a Girly-Man $tate? 2010

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OpEdNews - Quicklink: 'Arabs revising peace plan to win Israel backing for 2 states' 2009

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OpEdNews - Quicklink: Eliot Spitzer: How to Ground The Street 2008

Administration officials said the 2003 Medicare law required them to charge the states, in exchange for taking over the states\ 'Medicaid drug costs.

OpEdNews - Quicklink: States Protest Mandatory Contributions to Drug Plan 2005

The Webb-Kenyon Act was passed in 1913 to enable the states to close this remaining loophole that essentially discriminated in favor of out-of-state sellers of alcohol and undermined the states¡¦ ability to enforce their laws in dry states.

The Volokh Conspiracy » WINE WARS, PART 7–WEBB-KENYON ACT: 2004

You say, _that the people of the North would not think it "neighborly and friendly" if "the people of the slave states were to form societies, subsidize presses, make large pecuniary contributions, &c. to burn the beautiful capitals, destroy the productive manufactories, and sink the gallant ships of the northern states_."

The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus American Anti-Slavery Society

And let it be here particularly noted, that this union was a union of states, _as states_.

The Government Class Book Designed for the Instruction of Youth in the Principles of Constitutional Government and the Rights and Duties of Citizens. Andrew W. Young

On the other hand, the union under the constitution is a union, not of the states, as such, but of the _people of the states_.

The Government Class Book Designed for the Instruction of Youth in the Principles of Constitutional Government and the Rights and Duties of Citizens. Andrew W. Young

Saxony, and America; and the Protestant will see the Catholic states of Belgium, Bavaria, and France, all granting full liberty of conscience -- leaving every creed to settle its tenets with its conscience, and dealing, _as states_, only with citizens, not sects.

Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry Thomas Osborne Davis 1829

The ten least healthy states are all among the "red" states*.

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