June 28, 2023

The cost of living in a red state

Thom Hartmann - It’s undeniably true (and documented with each hotlink below) that Republican-controlled “Red” states, almost across the board, have higher rates of:

— Spousal abuse
Obesity
— Smoking

— Teen pregnancy
— Sexually transmitted diseases
Abortion (at least before Dobbs; now it would be “forced births”)
— Bankruptcies and poverty
Homicide and suicide
— Infant mortality
— Maternal mortality
— Forcible rape
— Robbery
and aggravated assault
— Dropouts from high school
Divorce
Contaminated air and water
— Opiate addiction and deaths
Unskilled workers
— Parasitic infections
— Income and wealth inequality
— Covid deaths and unvaccinated people
— Federal subsidies to states (“Red State Welfare”)
— People on welfare
— Child poverty
— Homelessness

— Spousal murder
Unemployment
— Deaths from auto accidents
— People living on disability
— Gun death

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