Red States outperforming Blue States

 Breitbart:

States that have Republican governors and legislatures have overwhelmingly succeeded in leading their state’s economic recovery before the majority of those governed by Democrats, according to an analysis of the January state-by-state unemployment data from the Department of Labor.

The Republican National Committee (RNC) research team’s analysis of the Labor Department’s December data revealed that Republican-led states continue, month after month, to outperform Democrat-led states in job recovery (15 of the top 20 states), and lowest unemployment numbers (17 of the top 20 states) as of January.

“More jobs are being recovered, and unemployment is lower in red states,” the RNC research team wrote in their analysis of data from March of the January data.

The six states with the highest job growth in the country are run by Republicans, while the top ten are led by Republican legislatures, as states across the country continue to end the coronavirus restrictions as Americans get back to work.

Looking further into the data, the RNC analysis confirmed that, as of January, 15 of the top 20 states led by Republican governors are doing a better job versus those led by Democrats governors. Plus, 17 of the top 20 recovering states have Republican-controlled legislatures.
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The Republican states were the first to do away with the lockdowns and the heavy-handed response to Covid.  They opened their economies earlier.  This led not only to economic growth by also a migration from the Bule States to the Red States. 

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