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Originally Posted by PaulS
Some good reading here:
The red states all have significantly lower life expectancy than blue states, owing to much higher incidences of diabetes, obesity, stroke and heart disease.
Red states have much higher rates of uninsured citizens, death, food stamp recipients and Medicaid recipients
The 10 poorest states in the nation are all red states and 97 of the 100 poorest counties are in red states.
The median income is much lower in red states than in blue states.
State funding per student is much lower in in red states.
The top 10 states that practice corporal punishment are red states.
The percent of the population with college degrees is lower in red states than in blue states.
Red states have a higher percentage of population abusing drugs.
The rate of traffic related fatalities is higher in red states.
The incidence of alcohol-related driving fatalities is higher in red states.
Of the 12 states with the highest murder rates, 10 are red states.
Of the top 10 states with the highest teenage pregnancy rates, nine are red states.
Of the top 15 states with the highest per capita execution rate, 13 are red states.
The incarceration rate is much higher in red states.
Property crimes rates are higher in red states than in blue states.
Divorce rates are significantly higher in red states.
Abstinence-only sex education is more prevalent in red states, which accounts for the fact that of the states with the highest teenage pregnancy rates, nine of the top ten are red states.
There are significantly more white supremacists hate groups in red states than in blue states.
Violence
http://editions.lib.umn.edu/smartpol...igher-crime-r/
Divorce
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25032268
Teen Pregnancies
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_a...een_moms_.html
Pornography
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/b...re-pornography
Best states for woman.
https://wallethub.com/edu/best-and-w...r-women/10728/ |
amazing that despite all that, they can't build $450,000 houses fast enough, in the Carolinas or the suburbs of Nashville.
Paul, instead of pointing to studies, try answering this...please point to some principles that you and I would both agree are conservative principles, that would cause people to be fat, unhealthy, poor, etc.
As to income, our median income in CT is very high. Some of that, probably much of that, has absolutely nothing to do with politics, and everything to do with how lucky we are to have beautiful waterfront real estate that is close to Manhattan.
"Of the 12 states with the highest murder rates, 10 are red states"
Break it down by city, please.
I pity all those upper middle class people moving south in droves They must really be stupid.