Only three states in the union—all Republican-led—saw unemployment rates drop or remain unchanged between December 2019 and December 2020—South Dakota, Alaska, and Nebraska, according to a recent government report. The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), part of the U.S. Department of Labor, said in a report last week that over-the-year unemployment remained unchanged in Nebraska, fell by 0.3 percentage points in Alaska, and dropped by 0.4 percentage points in South Dakota—the state with the lowest unemployment rate in December 2020. Red states, with Kansas the only notable exception, top the chart in terms of the lowest unemployment rates, while blue states occupy the bottom rungs. Nine out of ten of the states with the lowest rates of unemployment were led by Republican governors: Alabama (3.9 percent), Arkansas (4.2 percent), Iowa (3.1 percent), Nebraska (3.0 percent), New Hampshire (4.0), North Dakota (4.1 percent), South Dakota (3.0), Utah (3.6 percent), and Vermont …