@UncleBuck sure, foodstamps are a drop in the bucket of all fed spending, but so is all of social welfare and entitlements spending in the grand scheme. What's your point?
Your data is 13 years old, not that a whole lot has changed during that time.... here's a good article that demonstrates why these stats are easily manipulated to a given argument's advantage:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/08/us/california-today-federal-taxes.html
And here's ones that discusses the bipartisanship of entitlement recipients:
http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2012/12/18/a-bipartisan-nation-of-beneficiaries/
Also, I'd believe the Pew Trust's stat analysis and sources more than CNN and some guy named jesse erlbaum... this figure proves erlbaum is full of it overall, cherry-picking to bend the numbers... there are cointless ways to normalize, omit and include as seen fit by the argument being posed:
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Regardless, I'd say my correlation of dems versus foodstamps is a pretty telling comparison, especially since my post is broken down by county, and not lumping entire states together.... So yeah, nice try? Keep it up SoCal! How's it going Massachusetts? Miami? Chicago? Detroit? Seattle!? Portlandia? NYC?? San Francisco!!?? Gasp!