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Von sillychillly
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What patterns stand out to you when analyzing states with differing political leadership?
How do you think these factors influence broader discussions about socio-economic policies and governance effectiveness?
I’m sure there’s a study available somewhere that links crime and incarceration to wealth inequality.
Also shoutout to both New Mexico and New Hampshire for being delinquent counter examples.
You really need to be shielded from challenges to end up so far to the left.
I’m not making a political statement myself, but this appears to support what my conservative, red-state friends and colleagues always say about why people vote for Republicans/Trump. They view the Democrats as the party of the wealthy and middle/upper-middle class. And based on this data, that appears to be the case.
Obviously, while the Democratic party is pretty much full-center at this point, and pro-corporation itself, the GOP’s corporate support and 1% support are both next-level, and its actual support of poor people is pretty bad. But conservatives I know (or GOP loyalists) love, love, love this sort of data as they can claim it explains why red states are so red, and so supportive of the GOP. (You can debate with them if you want, I’m not going there!)
That aside, what are some other theories for this?
* Are liberal people more likely to become middle- and upper-middle class?
* Are upper-middle class people more likely to be liberal?
* Are liberal people more likely to move to big cities where there are higher-paying jobs?
* Are people who move to big cities, where there are more high-paying jobs, more likely to become liberal by virtue of living in a big city?
Any thoughts?
(I don’t think violent crime should be linked to Democrat or Republican states, that’s linked to poverty, so it’s a step removed, at least. And aside from variable enforcement of drug laws, more incarceration is the result of more violent crime, so at least two steps removed. But I’d be interested in seeing incarceration rates for nonviolent, noneconomic drug crimes in states with modernized drug laws vs. tradiational, strict states.)
data presentation is pretty bad IMO.
A good dataset for inspiring political circle jerking though
Me, living in California and seeing homeless people push carts and shout profanity: ARE YOU SURE ABOUT THAT!?!
The #1 blue state in your graph, Maryland, had a moderate Republican governor for the last 8 years. Blue states sometimes have GOP governors and red states sometimes have Democrat governors. Most states are not extreme in party line voting where they only elect one party.
Your poverty rate lost outright ignores differences in the cost of living which can be drastically different in different states. Important for a measure that exists to solely guage poverty rate
NH is an anomaly partially because it is just the “rich boomer anti-social suburbs” of boston, but as a state. Most large metros in the US have an area like this, it just so happens that boston’s version is in NH and comprises a lot of their population.
Excellent! Now if y’all could stop moving to these terrible red states, I’d appreciate it.
IE Urban people (blue) have a higher quality of life than rural people (red)
The problem you have here is that youre taking states from the south,which have historically always had these issues, and comparing them to northern states which really have always been much better overall.
To take these issues that have begun at the end of slavery and continued til today and try to blame them on republicans, who have only gotten consistently elected in the south as of about 25 years ago, is just insanely dumb.
Keep in mind that as late as the 1980’s you could point to a republican run california and a democrat run texas. And they were run by geniune republicans and democrats too. The south was just as poor when they were electing LBJ and Bill Clinton as they are now.
So how about we bring in republican states from out of the south, like Idaho and Utah, and see if this logic still holds up.