RICH STATE, POOR STATE: Real Per Capita Income by State (2012).

Not surprisingly, the most prosperous place in the U.S. is the District of Columbia.... In the Age of Obama, lobbyists reign supreme. A few blue states are prosperous ... [b]ut most of the country’s wealthiest states are red or purple: in addition to the Dakotas, Wyoming (#3), Nebraska (#6), Iowa (#7) and Kansas (#11).

Kansans are smart, but you can't tell that to the average liberal.

It is noteworthy, too, that states like New York, California and Illinois have much more income inequality than states like the Dakotas. If we saw the same data using medians instead of averages, the Dakotas, Wyoming, Nebraska, etc. would look even better. The average person is remarkably better off in those states.

You apparently have to plow through the data to get a sense of the rightness of the above statement; it isn't obvious from the chart.

And finally, this conclusion:

While one should rarely draw sweeping conclusions from a single data set, these numbers do cause one to wonder: the blue model has plainly failed at the state level, so why would anyone want to implement it at the federal level?

The 'blue state' model is essentially a feudal plantation model; it has the rich (plantation) owners surrounded by their servants, with a few shopkeepers leavened in to fill the niches.