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The states that are stable are ones that never really had much of an economy to begin with - Alaska, Utah, West Virginia...
Even in Michigan, the most struggling of the states, the mostly rural Upper Peninsula remains stable while the Detroit area reels simply because there was never much of an economy to collapse.
Has nothing to do with liberal or conservative, as some seem to be suggesting.