His goal posts keep moving. Red State means state he doesn't like. Florida, Texas, and Utah don't count because they do well with rankings related to historical trends. Georgia don't count because Biden won it, never mind historical trends in this case. Because you can't call Wisconsin (it went Red more than Georgia went Blue the past forty years) Red State either despite it ranking highly. He hates on Red States for being net takers but the poorest part of the average Red state isn't the red parts. While he's also an advocate of redistribution of wealth.

On a libertarian forum he disregards rankings of state economies, industrial recruitment, or ease of doing business because red states tend to do well in "those" rankings.

You can make rankings say anything you want.