Bloomberg has an interesting map showing state job gains and losses since the pre-recession peak:

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You can clearly see how states with job-destroying liberal Democratic governors have fared much worse than those with job-creating conservative Republican governors. Oh, wait:

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Actually, there’s not much correlation either way — both the best and the worst performers are red states. This is the same thing you learn when you look at the biggest states:

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But the right is, of course, claiming that you have to follow their policies to succeed — that you mustn’t tax the rich or help the poor because that would destroy job growth. Unfortunately for them, the only way to get that result is to invent your own facts.