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> obscures the fact that red states are poorer, less educated, and score lower on most quality of life measures than blue states. Does it obscure that fact? Ma
by long_time_gone 5y ago
> obscures the fact that red states are poorer, less educated, and score lower on most quality of life measures than blue states.
Does it obscure that fact? Maybe those facts are the underlying reason for some of the other ills.
> Given that murders occur where there are more people (cities), I don't find these findings that surprising.
This makes little sense as the places with more density are more likely to vote Democratic. Yet, this data shows us that (some) more rural states have higher murder rates.
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- anfilt 5y agoThis shouldn’t be a political issue. All these states also have democrats in their state legislature. If we wanted to play this political game most the murders would be come from democrat areas which are the larger population centers aka cities. I could flip this and point to more burglary per capita in rural areas which tend to be republican areas. Yet for this example its not because they are republicans, but in rural areas you tend have more unattended buildings. Crime varies a lot based off location. Lets not try to politize these things.