Red States Add More Jobs Than Blue States- Part 2: By The Numbers

Part two to my previous piece showing The Business Journals' data obtained by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics which found that Texas over the last decade has seen private sector job growth of 732,800 while California shows a private sector job decrease of 623,700.

The whole thing got me to thinking about the totals of all the blue states,red states and purple (swing) states, and I added up the numbers.

The final totals show 22 states considered "red", adding the private-sector jobs increased, subtracting the private-sector jobs decreased, left the red states with a plus 451,600 private-sector job increase over the last decade.

The 21 states considered "blue", and DC (making 22)adding the private-sector jobs increased, subtracting the private-sector jobs decreased, left the blue states with a minus 2,041,300 decrease in private-sector jobs.

Only 7 states are listed as purple, considered swing states which on any given year could swing blue or could swing red and those states total up to a 589,900 private-sector job decrease.

BY THE NUMBERS

Red States
Utah +90,000
Idaho +28,600
Wyoming +28,200
Nebraska +27,000
Alaska +34,400
Oklahoma +13,000
Kansas -42,500
North Dakota +49,600
Alabama -72,900
Texas +732,800
Mississippi -42,700
South Dakota +17,600
South Carolina -21,500
Montana +35,300
Kentucky -36,600
Indiana -165,500
Georgia -174,600
North Carolina -95,800
Tennessee -99,000
Arizona +90,200
Louisiana -5,700
Virginia +61,700

Total: +451,600 private-sector job increase from April 2001 to April 2011


Blue States
Massachusetts -140,700
Rhode Island -14,700
New York -17,000
Hawaii +26,500
Vermont -5,700
Maryland +9,900
Illinois -363,100
Connecticut -54,400
California -623,700
Delaware -13,300
Maine -16,300
New Jersey -175,600
Washington +63,000
Michigan -619,200
Minnesota -56,800
Oregon -5,500
Pennsylvania -20,400
New Mexico +34,300
Wisconsin -80,500
Iowa +1,300
New Hampshire -12,200
DC +42,800

Total w/DC added: -2,041,300 private-sector job decrease from April 2001 to April 2011

Purple (Swing) States
Arkansas -4,000
Nevada +39,600
West Virginia +7,200
Colorado -64,800
Florida -16,500
Missouri -98,500
Ohio -460,900

Total: -597,900 private-sector job decrease from April 2001 to April 2011

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