"The Red State Murder Problem"

"Takeaways

The rate of murders in the US has gone up at an alarming rate. But,
despite a media narrative to the contrary, this is a problem that
afflicts Republican-run cities and states as much or more than the
Democratic bastions.

In 2020, per capita murder rates were 40% higher in states won by Donald
Trump than those won by Joe Biden.

8 of the 10 states with the highest murder rates in 2020 voted for the Republican presidential nominee in every election this century."

"If you’re tuned in to the media, you’d think murder is rocketing
skyward in New York, California, Illinois. But those states don’t even
crack the top ten.

In fact, the top per capita murder rate states in 2020 were mostly those
far from massive urban centers and Democratic mayors and governors.
Eight of the top ten worst murder rate states voted for Trump in 2020.
None of those eight has supported a Democrat for president since 1996.

The chart below shows the top 10 murder rate states in 2020. Mississippi
had the highest homicide rate at 20.50 murders per 100,000 residents,
followed by Louisiana at 15.79, Kentucky at 14.32, Alabama at 14.2, and Missouri at 14. The national average was 6.5 per 100,000 residents, but
the top five states had rates more than twice that high.

These red states are not generating “murder is out of control” national headlines. They seem to generate no headlines at all. The rest of the
top ten were filled out by South Carolina, New Mexico, Georgia,
Arkansas, and Tennessee—all states rarely talked about in breathless
media reports about rampant crime in Democratic strongholds. Notably,
New Mexico and Georgia were the only Biden-voting states in the top ten,
and they ranked seventh and eighth, respectively."

https://www.thirdway.org/report/the-red-state-murder-problem

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