Some of it is false. The founders whose names you've never heard were mostly from the Northeast. The founders whose names everybody knows (Washington, Jefferson, Madison etc.) were mostly from Virginia.

The tax statistics are probably accurate, but the writer is ignoring a few factors. We have a progressive tax system, so the more you make, the more you pay. In the "blue" areas, the cost of living is a lot higher than most of the "red" areas. The people who live there are paid more, because they have to be, or they couldn't afford to live there.

I live in central Ohio. I'm guessing you know about where that is because of the election hype. In the suburbs surrounding Columbus Ohio, you can buy a good 3 or 4 bedroom house, on a 1/4 acre lot, in a decent neighborhood, for around $150,000. The same house, in a comparable neighborhood, in New England or California will cost at least twice as much, in some cases 3 or 4 times as much. In California, you can make 100K a year, but you still won't be able to afford even a crappy house.

That's what's driving the tax statistics that the writer is using. In Ohio, I have the same standard of living that a person making twice as much as me has in Massachusettes, but he's paying more taxes because the federal gov't doesn't adjust the percentages for different regions. Local taxes are part of what drives up the cost of living. I lived in Connecticutt for a year. It was unfuckingbelievable. You can't do anything without paying a high tax, or fee. Then they wonder why people are moving out of those states.

The divorce stats, I don't know about.