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• JohnTHaller 11y ago
  Do a Google search for: texas dead last You'll find things like Texas being the worst in terms of: Highest percentage of residents over age 25 without a high school diploma Lowest funding of mental health care Lowest funding of legal services for the poor Lowest average credit score Lowest voter participation Highest percentage of uninsured residents Highest per-capita gasoline consumption Highest level of cancer-causing compounds released into the air/ground/water Searching on other factors reveals other bits, like that Texas is: 40th in obesity 48th in child immunizations 46th in teen pregnancy These are from a ton of different news stories and statistical summaries from 2008-2015, so I'm sure a bunch are out of date. The point being that in many ways the Texas stereotype is backed up by real-world data. It's also interesting to see the things that Texas is good at that you would not expect based on stereotypes of Texas like levels of smoking (5th), drug deaths (7th), etc.
  • toomuchtodo 11y ago
    It's quite humorous you were downvoted considering everything you mentioned is true. http://web.archive.org/web/20150401050939/https://www.texastribune.org/2011/02/14/texas-is-on-the-brink-legislative-study-group-says/ http://web.archive.org/web/20150401050939/https://www.texast...
    • JohnTHaller 11y ago
      It's not unusual to be downvoted for factual posts by people who disagree with said facts.
• toomuchtodo 11y ago
  http://web.archive.org/web/20150401050939/https://www.texastribune.org/2011/02/14/texas-is-on-the-brink-legislative-study-group-says/ http://web.archive.org/web/20150401050939/https://www.texast...