State by state Cost of the War in Iraq. So Far. Click here for an interactive map ( from the "Center for American Progress") showing how much the Iraq war has cost each state vs. how much each state has received from the Federal government in Homeland Security and "No Child Left Behind" money.

Incidentally, this reminded me, and i went and hunted up this little piece on the "Red State/Blue State" dichotomy (from "Dispatches from the Culture Wars"). After pointing out that even though the red states are the bastions of God-fearing, moral, homeloving Christian Conservatives, in general they have higher rates than the blue states of homicide, divorce, teenage pregnancy and the like, he comes to this interesting statistic:

Surely those Real Americans in the red states are more self-reliant and hardy than us effete blue staters. With all the talk from red staters about smaller government and keeping those liberal pork project spenders in the Democratic party out of their pocketbook, it's those effete blue staters who feed at the public trough and take our well-earned tax dollars from the big spenders in Washington, right? Er...well, no. According to a study by the Tax Foundation, of all the states that receive more federal money than they pay in Federal taxes, 76% of them (25 of 32) are those self-reliant, small government red states. And of the 10 states that pay the most in Federal taxes and get the least in return, 7 are blue states.

(I note here that i'm pretty sure that i have read that the state that has the highest taxes-paid-to-Federal-money-received deficit is what talk show hosts like to refer to as "The People's Republic of Massachusetts".)  ¶ 1:39 PM