A Socio-Economic & Demographic Analysis

Source: http://www.census.gov/statab/ranks/rank29.html

Source: http://nces.ed.gov/programs/stateprofiles/sresult.asp?mode=short&s1=09&s2=36

Source: http://www.massbudget.org/documentsearch/findDocument?doc_id=640&dse_id=677

New York Unemployment

Source: http://www.fiscalpolicy.org/publications2007/SOWNY/SWNY07_WebEditionFinal.pdf

FIGURE III-7 Source: CT Department of Labor, Labor Market Information Data, August 2010.

Source: http://www.massbudget.org/file_storage/documents/StateOfWorkingMass2008-1231.pdf

Individual Political Culture   Dominant   Mixed with Others

Source, Daniel Elazar, Political Cultures of the US

“In such a system, an individual can secede politically, not by dealing with issues in some exceptional way or by accepting some concept of good government and then striving to implement it, but by maintaining his place in the system of mutual obligations.”  

-Daniel Elazar