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Originally Posted by JuneyBooney
The real difference between Conservative States and Liberal States in America is this.....In a Liberal State the state is crime laden and there are few nice places. In a Conservative State there are many nice places and a few bad places. 
Do you guys agree? |
Nope. Not at all.
It's hard to do a mathematically rigorous correlation, because it's hard to quantify the degree of "liberalness" of a state, so I'll just grab a few examples.
Alaska, which is pretty much as "conservative" as states get by the definition I think you meant, had a per-capita violent crime rate 40% higher than the national average. New Hampshire's crime rate is 65% lower than the national average, and it's a very liberal state.
But then you look at another pair of states: Wyoming's crime rate is almost 50% lower than the national average, and California's is 8% higher.
Your statement isn't even "oversimplified" it's just wrong.