Then why does it only manifest as a problem in red states? Look at the murder rates. They are outrageous in red states. There are blue cities everywhere. Rural murder rates are high in red states. The distinguishing characteristic isn’t blue cities. They are everywhere. It’s the murderous culture in red states.
A study of 19th century judicial records completed in 1980 by Michael Hindus, a lawyer, found that from 1800 to 1860 the murder rate in South Carolina, an overwhelmingly rural, agrarian area, was four times higher than that of Massachusetts, then the most urban, industrial state. More than a century later, the difference persists in almost the same magnitude. In 1996, the murder rate in South Carolina was 9 per 100,000 people, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation; in Massachusetts it was 2.6 per 100,000 people.Ideas & Trends: Southern Curse; Why America's Murder Rate Is So High (Published 1998)
High Southern murder rate remains key factor behind America's disproportionately high homicide rate compared with other democratic, industrialized nations; former slaveholding states of Confederacy all rank in top 20 states for murder, led by Louisiana, with rate of 17.5 murders per 100,000...www.nytimes.com
High Southern homicide rates challenge a central theory of criminology, which predicts more murder in densely populated urban areas where crowding and poverty break down traditional social ties and values.
It doesn't only manifest as a problem in red states. It only manifests as a problem in red states IN YOUR POSTS. And that would be because you only give a shit about murder and other crimes as a way to promote your agenda. If you can't score points from it, you don't give a rat's ass about people dying.
Oh, also - and I realize this always confuses leftists, since they don't believe in math - but red states tend to have lower overall populations, which means that murder RATES are driven higher by each individual murder than they would be in a larger population.
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