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Originally Posted by PaulS
Nashville historically votes liberal. Tenn. conserv. If taxes are your main point, Tenn. wins. Educ. poverty rate, opportunity, etc. Conn wins.
Not a lot of insurance jobs in Tenn.(although I did have a insur. client in Brentwood in a prior job).
States and territories
Rank State Poverty Rate(by Household Income) People in Poverty
by Household Income
(in thousands) 2014 Poverty Rates
(includes unrelated children) Supplemental Poverty Measure (2010-2014 average)
(Geographically Adjusted)
- United States 14.8% 45,950 16.0%[1][2]
4 Connecticut
10.8% 376 10.6% 12.5%
41 Tennessee
18.2% 1,165 16.7% 15.5%
tough to read - sorry
Following from US news and world reports on an overall rating on crime, educ. opportunity, etc.
https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/rankings
US News and World reports - 2014
Conn - #12
Tenn #39
Fattest states:
Conn: 21.4%
Tenn: 31.6%
fattest state Miss. 33.8%
Life expectancy at birth - Conn near top, Tenn near bottom
bachelors degree or higher - Conn near top, Tenn near bottom
The reddest states have long been the poorest. If the gov. didn't transfer lots of $ to those red states life there would be even worse.
another article';
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/31/op...y-is-blue.html |
"Educ. poverty rate, opportunity, etc. Conn wins. "
Nope. The marketplace has spoken , and they say you are wrong.
If you look at states as a whole, sure CT wins, we have Fairfield County and they don't. We win because we have a section of our state that's an easy commute to Manhattan.
There are certain cities in the Carolinas and TN that stink (also there are cities in CT that stink). However, there are cities in the Carolinas and TN that compare very well with nice CT suburbs in terms of quality of live, and far lower taxes. That is where many people are moving.
If those places are as crappy as you said, they would not all be on Amazon's list of finalists. Note that CT was bounced in the first round, but TN and NC are among the finalists.
CT liberal elites like to say the south is nothing but meth heads and trailer parks. Not remotely true. Look at Fort Mill SC. Rock bottom prices, and public schools as good as Avon CT. Those are the places we should be trying to emulate, but liberals won't concede they're doing anything better.