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07-23-2012, 10:47 AM | #81 (permalink) | |
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07-23-2012, 12:03 PM | #82 (permalink) | ||
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07-23-2012, 12:13 PM | #83 (permalink) |
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Yeah, it's hard to say really. There are obviously a lot of factors at work. For me that list doesn't so much confirm a correlation between crime and conservatism as it does refute the notion that liberalism or stricter gun laws somehow lead to more crime. If you look back, I was posting the list in response to someone claiming that conservative states had lower crime rates.
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07-23-2012, 12:33 PM | #84 (permalink) | ||
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Now what are the safest states to live in?
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07-23-2012, 01:24 PM | #85 (permalink) | |
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According to the source I used for the other list, the states with the lowest murder rates are:
Kind of a mixed bag. The safest state is a true swing state, New Hampshire, neither liberal nor conservative. Vermont, Iowa, Minnesota and Hawaii are all pretty liberal. Idaho, Wyoming, North Dakota and Utah are all fairly conservative. Maine is a bit like New Hampshire, though it tends to lean liberal. Another interesting thing is that, while the states with the highest murder rates tended to be some of the poorest states in the union, the states with the lowest murder rates aren't the necessarily the richest. |
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07-23-2012, 01:24 PM | #86 (permalink) |
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Singapore (VERY strict gun laws)... Deaths per 100,000 due to gun violence... 0.17.
Chicago (the US city with the closest population and population density)... Deaths per 100,000 due to gun violence... 15.6. Courtesy US crime statistics (just search for the website... It's easy to find). I'll let those numbers speak for themselves.
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The two states at the top of your list are New England states, all I'm trying to do is find some kind of pattern. Its not obvious but I'm sure there is a pattern in all this somewhere. Quote:
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07-23-2012, 02:51 PM | #89 (permalink) | |
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Two New England states at the top and another, Maine, a little further down. Beyond that and the fact that there are no southern states on the list, there isn't much of a pattern. Iowa, North Dakota and Minnesota are all northern midwest states known for having bleak winters and a "let's all work together" kind of culture. Idaho and Wyoming definitely fall in your "frontier-type" category. Hawaii is obviously a pretty unique state so they're hard to group with anyone. And Utah actually has a lot in common with a couple of the states on the "worst" list. |
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Surprised Florida wasn't on the high crime rate list, as that is the state we most get to hear about here for crimes.
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