Generally speaking, the flow of funds in the US is from high-earning areas to low-earning ones, especially to highly subsidized areas (e.g., farming communities and places that suck heavily on the federal teat for their military bases, retiree living expenses, and disaster relief). So, the "free shit" is more of a conservative-area thing.
https://wallethub.com/edu/states-mos...vernment/2700/
Of the ten states with the highest dependency on that list, nine were Trump states, while the highly urbanized and liberal states, like New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and California, tend to have below-median dependency.
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