Impressive to say the least. Note: The average drop was 1.35%, which is 50% better than the national decline of .9%.
Via Examiner:
Voters in 17 states elected new Republican governors in November 2010. This new breed of fiscally-conservative, tea party-supported Republican governors took office in January 2011. Here is how those states have fared since then, in terms of their unemployment rates:
Kansas — 6.9% to 6.1% = a decline of 0.8%
Maine — 8.0% to 7.4% = a decline of 0.6%
Michigan — 10.9% to 8.5% = a decline of 2.4%
New Mexico — 7.7% to 6.7% = a decline of 1.0%
Oklahoma — 6.2% to 4.8% = a decline of 1.4%
Pennsylvania — 8.0% to 7.4% = a decline of 0.6%
Tennessee — 9.5% to 7.9% = a decline of 1.6%
Wisconsin — 7.7% to 6.8% = a decline of 0.9%
Wyoming — 6.3% to 5.2% = a decline of 1.1%
Alabama — 9.3% to 7.4% = a decline of 1.9%
Georgia — 10.1% to 8.9% = a decline of 1.2%
South Carolina — 10.6% to 9.1% = a decline of 1.5%
South Dakota — 5.0% to 4.3% = a decline of 0.7%
Florida — 10.9% to 8.6% = a decline of 2.3%
Nevada — 13.8% to 11.6% = a decline of 2.2%
Iowa — 6.1% to 5.1% = a decline of 1.0%
Ohio – 9.0% to 7.3% = a decline of 1.7%