Red State Economies Hire More But Don't Create More Jobs

Red states don't have more job growth than Blue states, but they do have more hiring because they also have more firing and layoffs. 

Some of this is due to a mix of jobs in the Red state economies that has more unstable, often blue-collar work, which in turn is an important factor driving why Red states are Red states. 

Some of this is due to attitudes about when to fire or layoff workers that probably are driven to some extent by more job churn. 

The charts below are from this Washington Post story: