Some Red State/Blue State Indicia

Not saying that urbanization doesn't matter. It does, but other variables are at play at well.

New York and Massachusetts have among the lowest gun ownership rates in the country, which helps to offset the effects of urbanization.

Alabama has one of the highest gun ownership rates. That pushes up the homicide rate in spite of its not being heavily urbanized.
 
goldfly said:
this is america

it's literally our culture

it's stupid as ****

but if you worship the dumbest amendment of the document people think is still a bible and think it's the only one that can never be touched

this is what ya get


but i was curious numbers for NYC and then went and found the largest city that is run by a republican

numbers on a quick search were hard to compare to the greatest city in the world but will give it a try

looked up shootings and mostly could only find gun deaths and just not shootings for the republican city

NYC had 462 murders for the 8,419,000 people that live there

Jacksonville, Florida had 175 murders for the 890,467 people that live there


if the republican controlled city of Jacksonville had the same rate of murders that NYC does to their population

Jacksonville would have 1,654 murders in a year at the rate they have now

NYC is greatly safer in than the largest republican hell hole

upside, guess republican cities are better at shooting and killing their people than NYC.
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I agree. Jacksonville stinks. So does the Atl proper area. VERY blue.
 
https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article251337138.html

Hoping to provide alternatives to expensive for-profit career-training programs, California has invested more than $100 million into an online-only community college known as Calbright. But at the end of its first year of operation, only 12 students had graduated. Nearly 400 dropped out, according to a report released by the California State Auditor on Tuesday.

The audit comes just days after the California Assembly voted 71-0 to abolish the school by 2023.

Former Gov. Jerry Brown, a longtime proponent for online education, signed a law in 2018 to establish Calbright. The school was meant to help working Californians get access to better, higher-paying jobs by securing certificates in industries in demand.

By October 2020, a year after its launch, Calbright had enrolled more than 900 students. But the school fell far short of its goal of placing 300 to 400 graduates into paid apprenticeships or jobs in its first year, according to the report. Only 12 graduated — and Calbright doesn’t know whether they are employed, the report said.

Calbright has also failed to build relationships with employers to ensure its graduates can get good jobs, the report said. The school started offering career services such as one-on-one coaching in November, but the report said they are insufficient substitutes for strong relationships with employers.

The report also pointed out students at some Calbright’s programs, such as cybersecurity, may not be able to access good jobs because those often require bachelor’s degrees or significant industry experience. “Calbright’s decisions regarding the programs it offers have not adequately reflected an awareness of the needs of its target population.”

Finally, the report said Calbright’s former executive team, while earning substantially higher salaries than other community college leaders, did not have a detailed strategy for how it planned to spend more than $175 million in state funding.

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Wasn't sure which thread to post in, but its a staggering (and predictable and hilarious) government failure. You know you bombed when even the California Assembly unanimously votes to shutter a government program rather than throw more money at it.
 
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California is a well known cesspool of government waste. All that money is going somewhere and it’s not to the citizens.

Bring the election audits to every single county. I find it hard to believe the people of the great state of California actually continue to vote for this trash.
 
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It's weird that Southern rural areas have homicide rates so much higher than Western, Midwestern, and Northern rural areas. It doesn't align with southern border immigration either, because that wouldn't have a big impact on SE GA and Palmetto SC.
 
Jaw said:
It's weird that Southern rural areas have homicide rates so much higher than Western, Midwestern, and Northern rural areas. It doesn't align with southern border immigration either, because that wouldn't have a big impact on SE GA and Palmetto SC.
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There are a few things about guns and gun deaths that cut across the easy talking points. Hawaii has a high rate of gun ownership but low gun deaths. I would guess that this reflects the military population there being gun owners but gun owners who are responsible and well trained about using a gun. Rural Vermont has a very strong hunting culture. Bernie actually has a mixed record on gun issues because of that part of his constituency. But again there seems to be a cultural component to the gun ownership in Vermont that promotes safe and responsible use of guns. I'm less familiar with the Upper Midwest, but my guess is that they have a similar hunting and gun ownership culture.

You know the South and Appalachia better than me, but I think it's the old Hatfields and McCoys way of settling scores.
 
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This stuff makes me glad that GA took a stand against CRT today.

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nsacpi said:
You know the South and Appalachia better than me, but I think it's the old Hatfields and McCoys way of settling scores.
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I had that thought too, but rural Appalachia is mostly in the clear there from what I can tell. It looks like Chattanooga, Knoxville, Asheville, and Charleston are responsible for the red there. Not major metropolises, but they are the closest thing Appalachia has.
 
Jaw said:
I had that thought too, but rural Appalachia is mostly in the clear there from what I can tell. It looks like Chattanooga, Knoxville, Asheville, and Charleston are responsible for the red there. Not major metropolises, but they are the closest thing Appalachia has.
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so the city cousins of the Hatfields and McCoys
 
nsacpi said:
so the city cousins of the Hatfields and McCoys
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Nah, they were the soft ones, so they died first.

It really is a surprising map. Humid heat looks like as good of a correlation as anything to me. You get a break from that in the hills, and it's just thick sweltering still air in those reddest places.
 
The hatfields and McCoy’s were maybe the original gang beef, but these gangs are a little different these days bro

I suggest serving on your local grand jury. No better way to see what’s actually happening in your areas
 
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The hatfields and McCoy’s were maybe the original gang beef, but these gangs are a little different these days bro

I suggest serving on your local grand jury. No better way to see what’s actually happening in your areas
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I lived in Oakland not so long ago. I know the modern gang scene.
 
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