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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The cost of living is significantly lower in red states. Lower salaries, lower construction costs, lower HVAC bills, etc. That accounts for pretty much all of the discrepancy.[/quote]

This, plus the western states (tend to be red) had big land grant schools, which was not the case in the NE.  
Plus about 20 years ago, a lot of the red states got rid of affirmative action and in doing so gave scholarships to the top x% of each HS class -- because HS in this country tend to be racially unbalanced due to housing realities, that was a moderately effective way of ensuring that they got decent racial diversity.  Texas and Arizona are the two examples I'm thinking of, but I think there were others.  The blue states didn't do that, but should have done it.  (I'm not anti-affirmative action, I just think that public universities should be giving much more merit aid to the top students at all public HS.  If you do great at your public HS, even if it's not a great public HS, you should get into the flagship and get merit aid to go there.)[/quote]

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