Who Gets Hurt the Most If US Goes Off 'Fiscal Cliff'
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Another way to look at the effects of the fiscal cliff is by Federal jobs. In some places, Federal jobs can represent a huge part of the workforce.
For example, in Grant County, LA, 22 percent of the workforce consists of federal jobs as a result of the high-security Federal prison in Pollock. Under the sequester, $537 million of federal prison salaries and expenses could be cut.
Few places even come close to Martin County, Indiana, where 59 percent of its workforce is federal as a result of the Naval Surface Warfare Center, among the largest naval installations in the world even though it's landlocked. (Read More: Boehner: I Believe We Can Do This' and Avert 'Cliff')
State by state, there are blue states like California and red states like Texas with high federal employment as a percent of the total. But that's how the sequester was designed: to spread out the pain sufficiently among states and counties and the political parties to provide enough incentive to bring all parties to the table to make a deal.
But in some cases, that could require a senator to vote for cuts that would hurt his or her largest employer, the federal government.
-BY CNBC's Steve Liesman; Follow him on Twitter @steveliesman
