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Originally Posted by Ooloo
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I haven't looked into it, but my guess would be that red states have more lower and lower-middle class people living in them. IE people who have a paper trail and can be easily counted.
"Poverty" needs to be specifically defined. People making less than 13k a year are considered impoverished. Homeless people, ironically, are often not counted as impoverished because they make *zero* money, which is treated as a separate category.
If you have no ID and often no social security number and you live on the street, you're certainly impoverished, but how is any formal census supposed to count you?
So the data is probably a lot harder to ascertain on the poverty question. Whereas on the crime question, it's literally just "how many murders happen here?" and those records are extremely simple to obtain.
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Do the murder stats include police killings? What about deaths caused by eviction? How about someone who dies because they can't afford insulin? I think your definition of "violence" is too narrow.
As for poverty, a lot of definitions and statistics include children, the elderly, and the disabled. It gets more complicated. High population states might bear that out but Florida, specifically, makes it weirder.
Anyways, I'll take this as the long-winded way of saying "I don't know." and I appreciate the honesty.
08-23-2023, 07:24 PM
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