That is pretty ignorant, man. I should show you the giant office towers filled with bio majors in Sorrento Valley and Torrey Pines all making excellent money in the bio tech business. Btw you will find very few red staters in the STEM field I work in nor among the various high paid engineers and computer programmers employed in this very blue state. Your position is just factually wrong.
Yes, they make plenty of money. But they don't actually "make money." Businesses invest in lesser-educated individuals in the hopes of making a return. The truth is all the achievements made in fields such as medicine and biology are made by physicists and mathematicians, not biologists and doctors. It's just the way it is. Ancalagon thinks he knows all about software engineering because his wife and friends work in IT. IT is to computer science as being a burger flipper at McDs is to being Gordon Ramsay. The people who actually constitute the heart of the Silicon Valley seldom subscribe to ideology of the fascist American Democratic party. Just because one lives in a Blue State doesn't mean he is a part of it. Given that I'm in insider... I think not.
I have a friend who makes a pretty good living working as a biologist in the biotech ondustry so I am just going to have to say you are completely wrong and do not know what you are talking about.