Dustbury points out that there is somethin' interestin' in the Taste Section of the WSJ Opinion Journal:
Friday, November 7, 2003 12:01 a.m. EST
RED STATES CARE: In news sure to depress those for whom Republican stinginess and antipathy for the less fortunate is an article of faith, the Massachusetts Catalogue for Philanthropy has just released its Generosity Index 2003, which ranks states not just by how much their residents give per capita but also by how much they give relative to what they earn. As OpinionJournal.com reader Gabriel Openshaw pointed out to us, the resulting index shows that the top 20 states all went for George W. Bush in the 2000 election--while 15 of the 20 least generous went for Al Gore. Maybe, he suggests, the difference is that those in red states are more generous with their own money while those in blue states are more likely to be generous with other people's money. - link
Dustbury provided links to the Generosity Index if you're interested in seeing the complete state-by-state breakdown.
Posted by notGeorge at November 8, 2003 11:15 AM | TrackBackIn fact, there are huge and obvious flaws in the
way that the "Generosity Index" is calculated.
It's amazing that nobody on the editorial staff
at the Wall Street Journal caught this. In any
case, you can read an explanation of the flaws in
at the URL attached to this messsage
( http://home.netcom.com/~rdavis2/genindex.html )