What's the matter with Massachusetts?

TaxProf crunches the numbers on Obama's proposed social security tax hike and shows that the biggest losers are voters in blue states and the smallest losers (because, after all, there are no winners with a tax hike) are voters in red states.

Time for a Thomas Frank sequel:

What's the Matter With Massachusetts?: How Liberals Won the Coasts of America

in which Frank would argue that the left has used clever propaganda to trick gullible voters in the Northeast and the West Coast into ignoring their own interests and voting Democrat.