Republican policies facilitate worse economic outcomes and thereby more crime.
The
study found that murder rates in the 25 states Trump carried in 2020 are 40% higher overall than in the states Biden won. (The report used 2020 data because 2021 data is not yet fully available.) The five states with the highest per capita murder rate — Mississippi, Louisiana, Kentucky, Alabama and Missouri — all lean Republican and voted for Trump.
Eight of the 10 states with the highest murder rates in 2020 voted for Donald Trump.
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10 states with the highest homicide rates:
- Louisiana (12.4 per 100,000 people) = Red state
- Missouri (9.8 per 100,000 people) = Red state
- Nevada (9.1 per 100,000 people) = Blue state
- Maryland (9 per 100,000 people) = Blue state
- Arkansas (8.6 per 100,000 people) = Red State
- Alaska (8.4 per 100,000 people) = Red state
- Alabama (8.3 per 100,000 people) = Red State
- Mississippi (8.2 per 100,000 people) = Red state
- Illinois (7.8 per 100,000 people) = Blue state
- South Carolina (7.8 per 100,000 people) = Red state
Poorest states
- Mississippi (19.78%) = Red state
- Louisiana (18.88%) = Red state
- New Mexico (18.59%) = Blue state
- West Virginia (17.66%) = Red state
- Kentucky (16.65%) = Red state
- Arkansas (16.31%) = Red state
- Alabama (16.08%) = Red state
- Oklahoma (14.93%) = Red state
- Tennessee (14.24%) = Red state
- Michigan (13.99%) = Blue state
Welfare recipients
- New Mexico (21,326 per 100k) = Blue state
- West Virginia (17,509 per 100k) = Red state
- Louisiana (17,429 per 100k) = Red state
- Mississippi (14,874 per 100k) = Red state
- Alabama (14,522 per 100k) = Red state
- Oklahoma (14,464 per 100k) = Red state
- Illinois (14,211 per 100k) = Blue state
- Rhode Island (13,890 per 100k) = Blue state
- Pennsylvania (13,622 per 100k) = Blue state
- Oregon (13,504 per 100k) = Blue state
Most educated states by scores
- Massachusetts (80.06) = Blue state
- Maryland (73.21) = Blue state
- Vermont (70.07) = Blue state
- Connecticut (68.22) = Blue state
- Colorado (67.97) = Blue state
- Virginia (66.98) = Blue state
- New Hampshire (66.32) = Blue state
- Minnesota (65.57) = Blue state
- Utah (64.53) = Red state
- Washington (63.77) = Blue state
Most peaceful states in the U.S.
- New Hampshire = Blue state
- Vermont = Blue state
- Minnesota = Blue state
- North Dakota = Red state
- Utah = Red state
- Massachusetts = Blue state
- Rhode Island = Blue state
- Iowa = Red state
- Washington = Blue state
- Virginia = Blue state
Who is better for the economy?
Many analyses look at which party is best for the economy.
A study from the National Bureau of Economic Research found that Democratic presidents since World War II have performed much better than Republicans. On average, Democratic presidents grew the economy by 4.4% each year versus 2.5% for Republicans.
A study by Princeton University economists Alan Blinder and Mark Watson found that
the economy performs better when the president is a Democrat. They report that “by many measures, the performance gap is startlingly large.” Between Truman and Obama, growth was 1.8% higher under Democrats than Republicans.
Source:
Democrat or Republican: Which Political Party Has Grown the Economy More?
