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this post authored by YiLi Chien, Research Officer and Economist, and Julie Bennett, Research Associate In recent decades, political divisions have intensified in the U.S.[ 1] Republicans and Democrats appear to disagree on a multitude of issues, including the size and allocation of government expenditures.[ 2] Considering these disagreements, we might expect to see strong correlations between state political leanings and state and local government expenditure patterns. In this post, we investigate whether we actually observe such correlations in the data. Data on Political Leanings and Government Spending To produce these correlations, we used the following data: State Political Leanings

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