He says that 47% of Americans pay no federal taxes and are wholly dependent on government, so he’ll never get their votes.

But in The Atlantic, David Graham shows that eight of the top 10 states with the highest number of non-federal taxpayers are red states.

Which makes sense-it’s the same phenomenon as the red states whose residents cry out against big government, yet those states take far more from that government than they pay in taxes….

And it also tends to be those same states which rank lowest on state-by-state education surveys. (Hello, Alabama!)

Basically, it’s the entire South, plus Idaho….