The great plains are plundering.

[rupol2000]

I looked at how the US budget is distributed, found data for only 2017, but I think this is approximately always the case. As you might expect, the black states are pumping money, the British states in the northeast are in second place, and donors in cowboy America.

Montana is an exception for some reason.
Is Montana part of the great plains?

Map of the United States with the classification of states according to the level of per capita balance of payments in the 2017 financial year. States with a negative balance of payments are highlighted in orange (they give more to the budget than they receive from it). The largest recipients of federal subsidies with a positive balance of more than $ 3,500 per resident are shown on the map in blue, in 2017 there were 19 such states.

 

[danielpalos]

I make a motion for an underground conduit that runs from the west coast to the east coast.