Minnesota is a low spending state?!

FEE points out this article in the WaPo about government growth [FEE pairs it with this 1993 article by Steven Moore]:

More interesting is how states fared in per capita federal spending -- the amount of federal money spent per person. The national average was $7,223 per person.

The top five states were Alaska ($12,885), Virginia ($12,150), Maryland ($11,645), New Mexico ($10,437) and Hawaii ($9,651). The bottom five were Nevada ($5,469), Minnesota ($5,644), Wisconsin ($5,728), Utah ($5,728) and Michigan ($5,981).

How about that?