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Arkansas is 48th. Yeah, that tracks.
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Mississippi and Alabama are even worse. Which also tracks.
Mississippi and Louisiana*
Alabama is 45
Yep, gotta make room for all those personal liberties
We are going to build a new prison though, and that will fix it you'll see.....
A very expensive prison in the middle of bum fuck Egypt. It will bring lots of kickbacks to the Sarah Sander's cronies ...err... I mean jobs
Utah ranks higher than Colorado. That’s a bit surprising. I guess crazy politics doesn’t weigh down the rankings.
Hi. I was born in Utah.
The statistics presented here likely primarily include Mormons. Mormons, granted, tend to experience higher rates of senses of well-being due to thorough, lifelong conditioning into a religion that (to put it very very lightly) trains and encourages wishful thinking and group conformity to levels that would make a tankie blush.
Those who leave this religion (cult that has the all-time gold medal championship title in doublethink and mental gymnastics in archeology) tend to experience significantly higher rates of suicide, mortality, and depression. The youth suicide rate alone shot up 192% from 2009 to 2014. https://www.rationalfaiths.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/LGBTQStats-2.pdf
Speaking from personal experience, Utah is a theocracy, straight up. The church controls everything from the state congress to the real estate. They have loopholes in the department of education that allow ecclesiastical education at public schools. I'd know, I graduated from one.
Fuck Utah.
If they have loopholes in the DoE for this, I'm sure the Satanic Temple can do so as well
I assume that's because they drink almost no alcohol. That's probably good for their health.
https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/alcohol-consumption-by-state
Utah is also a massive outlier when it comes to other Republican states.
Utah has a high percentage of its population with college education. It also has a relatively robust state welfare program compared to other Republican states. And, from what I've seen regarding comparative state politics, Utah's political leaders appear to be relatively uncorrupt and able to plan long term growth.
The politicians are controlled by the LDS church and you think they are not corrupt?
I said relative, not absolute.
Crazy in your (or my) estimation.
I may not agree with people, but understanding their paradigm can be insightful.
I'm not sure why you are being picked on, but I agree that understanding what works is key to building a healthy society.
Well compare the rest and you should see at least some correlation.
2012:
2016:
2020:
2024:
It's so nice for Republicans that 100,000 acres of dirt matters more than a dense populace.
Huh.. Who'd have thought New Hampshire would take the top spot? God knows I wouldn't..(and I'm a native born resident)
Considering the amount of highly educated and higher paid residents work down in MA it kinda tracks.
The answer is Massachusetts, the hillbillies from New Hampshire just cross the border for medical care and some of their kids go to schools in Boston.
True. Only reason they have NH as #1 is the number of educated and well paid people that work in MA and relocated for the tax breaks.
I moved from #40 to #5 over the summer. The difference is staggering. You can just tell how much happier everyone here is and it really makes a positive impact on the community as a whole.
Uh.
Uhoh. If Minnesota is number 4... Then this truly a map of the race to the bottom.
Overall not that surprising. Some interesting differences between states, but regionally it's what I expected.
It's no secret, we ALL knew the conservative South is suffering.
I knew things were bad but holy hell.
Yall zone? More like no zone