Please note the poorest 15 states in the union and the 15 richest.

The poorest states are also the reddest, while the richest states are the bluest - almost without exception:

Poorest

35 Ohio
36 Missouri
37 Florida
38 Montana
39 North Carolina
40 Idaho
41 Oklahoma
42 South Carolina
43 New Mexico
44 Louisiana
45 Tennessee
46 Alabama
47 Kentucky
48 Arkansas
49 West Virginia
50 Mississippi

Richest

1 Maryland
2 Alaska
3 New Jersey
4 Connecticut
District of Columbia
5 Massachusetts
6 New Hampshire
7 Virginia
8 Hawaii
9 Delaware
10 California
11 Minnesota
12 Washington
13 Wyoming
14 New York
15 Colorado

Wealthy Republicans are masters at getting poor Republicans to vote against their economic interests in favor of their biases.