This, on the other hand, is real data.

While, as noted below, the chart going around the Internet about the relative IQs of blue states and red states is a HOAX, this chart, showing the relative generosity of blue states and red states, isn't. The top twenty-five states in terms of generosity (a relationship between a state's affluence ranking and its rank in terms of giving) are all red states. Massachusetts, the home of various smart guys like John Kerry, ranks 49th.

Oh, by the way, remember the stories all over the news media about how John Kerry, when he was between heiresses in the early 1990s, couldn't find a way to give a dime to charity, even though he was making $130,000 or so as a U.S. Senator? Oh, right. The media never picked up on those stories. Hmmmm.... wonder why?

One more item in the file of "What If A Republican Did That?"