@@BonShulaMostly blue, really? Top 5 states with registered sex offenders per capita. Arkansas-red Alaska-red South Dakota-red Wisconsin-purple Oregon-blue
@@BonShula Per capita is a better metric bro. Otherwise, Texas and California are always going to be highest by sheer population. (btw, look at the top 10 per capita)
@@BonShula Nope, you use per capita because Texas and California and New York will almost always have the highest number of anything due to their sheer size and population. Would you rather have 500 criminals in a population of 100,000 people (0.5%) or 100 criminals in a population of 1000 people(10%)?
I love it when people from red states act like their place is better because the houses are cheap, as if that’s not proof that nobody wants to live there.
I mean, houses sell here 2 days after they’re listed. Precisely because they’re $500k instead of $2.5M. You can live in a blue state, if you want to live in a 1BR apartment.
@@sergeant_salty Because people who can no longer afford to live in states where they want to live are forced to burden the states where people don't want to live. Doctors, engineers, nurses, and the educated are FLEEING Texas and Florida in record numbers.
I would never live in a red state if I could help it. The typically lower cost of living is more than overshadowed by poor outcomes in almost every social metric. They are lower cost for a reason: because they don't fund much of any program, to the extent that they even have them.
@@Deagle5000AEComing from a Red State, not really. Quality of life here is still pretty bad. I know lots of people who are struggling to get by and our state’s public services are horrible to navigate. The problem is that our state government doesn’t want to fund anything, and yet they’re confused about why businesses and young people are leaving to other states.
I live in Ohio. Primarily because the 4 bedroom home I own is $450k here and has the best school district in the state… and the same house is $2 million in the suburbs of Boston where I’d want to live. Can’t afford it. Democrats should be happy some of us blue voters live here, or you wouldn’t have Greg Landsman in OH-1 and Sherrod Brown 💚
@@masterchief1342 We have some family here, but otherwise - NC became very unaffordable. We shopped houses in Apex in 2014 that were $350k. By 2022 when we were were ready to move, those houses were $900k. I firmly believe the 3 C’s (most notably Cbus and Cincy) are where Raleigh was… about 10-15 years ago. Mind you, we moved from Florida - a state that has completely gone to crap. Where OH might have a possibly acceptable political future - FL plainly does not. All it attracts is elderly conservatives, extremely conservative Cubans/Venezuelans, and the tax-averse rich. Not a good combo.
@@johngigante3294 That’s great, but we wanted 4 bedrooms and there was next to nothing meeting the criteria. We’re in one of the nicest Cincy suburbs - the public schools here have 99% college admission rates and top scores across the board… the nicest Boston suburbs (Newton/Needham/Wellesley/Dover/Weston/etc) are *4-5x the cost of these* , for older/smaller houses on way less land.
@MikeLikesChannel The upside of that is the increase in property value if you can afford to get in initially. I bought my home in Lexington for 850k ten years ago, now it's 2.2 million. On top of that, Lexington ranks in the top 10 for safest cities in America with some of the best public schools....and its where America started. Got to love the history, Amarika! 🇺🇸 Still, your right...vote blue no matter where you live.
Yes, in a demonstrable way. The only thing I really hate about living in Massachusetts is the Winter. It's expensive, but average pay is higher and taxes go to better use here. The state also offers better help here.
I live in Rhode island. I feel the same, maybe not necessarily about the tax spending, but I wouldn't trade this state for a red state any day. Hands down.
@@leelandwilliams8669 nd thats what people dont undersrand! Gov will never offer money people out their pockets. All that c0vid money we received from Minnesota were all taxed and from who? Us the citizens!
I live in one of America's bluest towns in one of America's reddest states (New Orleans, Louisiana). We have a Democrat governor though 👍 thanks bobby jindal, your one upside was boning the LA GOP enough to give us a real gov for covid etc
I refuse to visit New Orleans simply because the area around it is too thick with red that I'd feel extremely unsafe, violated, fearful that I couldn't cross from red to blue fast enough if something were to happen. Like the battle of the bulge or something.. Surrounded by hate.
@@celebrityrog tbh you have to go looking in the "white flight" parishes (st Bernard, st Tammany, plaquemines, parts of West and East Jefferson parish) to find the real "MAGA" folk... they mostly avoid the city like the plague, especially during Mardi gras etc They have their own little tribal "family gras" thing. "No nudity, no public drunkenness" etc etc
@@sergeant_salty well yes I think crime rates are higher in areas populated by a certain minority. if you look at chicago white and asian precincts are relatively safe and even the hispanic majority precincts are pretty safe as well. Only the south side is bad and its not just chicago in every major city same trend is followed.
I live in the bluest county in all of the state of Kansas, Douglas County. We were a huge part of the reason the abortion ban failed here. If we can do that we can turn this MF around.
An interesting comparison would be rural areas in red states vs rural areas in blue states and cities in red states vs cities in blue states. Most rural areas are red regardless of the state and most cities are blue. The difference between red and blue states is whether the rural areas or cities control the state.
@@mscoyote50 Yeah, the US is #1 and CA. is 5th in the world. "California's GDP in 2022 was $3.6T, representing 14.3% of the total U.S. economy. If California were a country, it would be the 5th largest economy in the world, and more productive than India and the United Kingdom."
Yes, oh yes, blue states are far better than red states. More intelligent and educated populace, safer and more prosperous towns, more interesting and innovative work opportunities, and far more sane leadership at all levels. I would never live in a red state.
😢 Not here in Seattle. We have the worst fentanyl and homelessness issues in the country. Been here for 30 years. It had suddenly gotten really bad over the past 3 years. Very unsafe for kids. Fentanyl traces are everywhere including public restrooms, buses, light rails, grocery stores, etc. People are leaving and property values are imploding. Public schools are closing and consolidating. This is not the Seattle I grew up in. 2019 seemed like it was the last time Seattle was amazing 😢
Have you seen how liberals took black faces off products in the grocery store? So that all they see is white faces on products while shopping. I'm sure you didn't. Democrats are still mad Republicans free the slaves.
@@Horatio.Mantooth The people leaving blue states are overwhelmingly the poorly-educated and destitute, i.e. red voters. They're turning blue states more blue.
Absolutely. Better culture, people, healthcare, less nazis and boomers. Smarter and not evil. The sooner the flyover country empties out for good and we use robots to handle the farming and stuff the better.
What a comment! Here’s an idea. Instead of using robots the US could always just import a bunch of people from foreign lands and use them to do all the farm work in the meantime. Just like the good old days Mr Never-so-much as stepped-in-a-field-before-never-mind-had-the-occasion-to-be-around-a-farm-animal.
Better people?? What a joke that is. I'll keep that in mind next time I get accosted on the NYC subway by a homeless naked mental patient that is high as a kite covered in his own vomit and feces or mugged by a gangbanger in LA or Chicago at gunpoint.
My blue state allows gay people to marry and adopt . And our libraries are not being targeted by book banning . Also , my blue state provides free school lunch to all children , following Jesus word to feed the hungry .
I'm in California and have you seen our state's homeless problem? Newsom is a laughingstock. Obiden voters sure are quiet in this state. I don't see t-shirts or bumper stickers and not a single flag except if it contains a letter F before Biden. And if I did I wouldn't attack or harass I would ridicule. But y'all scared to represent
@@83delgadoDems don’t wear Biden merchandise because it’s a sign of cultish behavior. Even “harmless cults”: Harley Davison, Nike, Apple, Prada… people wear the brand. Trumpism is that. Those of us voting for Biden don’t put the politician’s brand on a pedestal. I’ve never worn a political shirt in my life or owned their hats or garb. I vote, and then go about my life.
@@MikeLikesChannel As opposed to boiling/freezing to death in Texas. Not to mention that Alaska barely gets any snow at all... outpacing Wisconsin by 18.13 inches annually.
David saying it depends but at the same time letting us now how much better blue states are based on metrics that should be the most valuable to everyone, like education and healthcare 😂
More guns, churches - right Try Chicago, Baltimore, Detroit, Memphis, Newark, Philly, Oakland, Los Angeles, SF with their homelessness, gangsters and crimes, rent cost. U can say West Virginia with the drug addicts, but they have less crime, poorness, drive by, gangsters, property crime than in Memphis for example
When people live in these states and vote blue, and out of state blue voters shit on us… it’s not appreciated. I could leave Ohio and live in Massachusetts or NY too. Enough of us do that and you lose Sherrod brown and Greg landsman. Is that helpful? No.
Yes. "The south shall rise again" says it all. Otherwise living quality, life length etc are better in blue states. And things even improve if we go to Canada which has no Republican politicians or voters
@@sameash3153 Yeah, on that bigger cities tend to always be more expensive. Except for instance Vienna in Europe, where the market is not in control of the prices
This is an answer that no Republican or mainstream Democrat voter will like but I think the actual answer is yes, but only somewhat. Blue states are full of corporate Democrats in power and those corporate Democrats are usually a mixed bag. While better education systems and slightly better poverty rates are good things, blue states also lack important things that are found in social democracies such as universal healthcare, more reasonable housing costs and better labor rights.
Wages, cost of living, and all sorts of metrics are great to show the divide but the easiest one that everyone should remember? You live about 8 years longer on average in blue states. How is losing nearly a decade of life just to live in a red state so popular to so many people?
@@timjodice100 you mean besides better education and better access to Healthcare? Red states generally have more obesity, more diabetes, more cancer, get less vaccines to help prevent serious illnesses which is directly tied to lower intelligence in red states over all, red states have lower regulations leading to more hazards for the people who live there whether or not you want to admit it. You seem to be a Trump troll, trying to troll me doesn't do anything about people in red states dying nearly a decade before people in blue states, and it's an extremely clear message about how gullible Republicans are today.
@timjodice100 probably better access to healthcare and better education translating to more fit ppl pr better health behaviors, mental health excersizing etc
Yes, it's real cheap to live in WV, MS, AL,...etc..you're also in horrible states for every health & well being statistic, life expectancy, poverty rate, etc..
I agree. It's essentially moving to gated communities in loosely regulated states. But it's a deceptive statistic that red states love to throw out @@grobble8954
Possibly, but for many retirees easy access to quality healthcare is just as likely to be a higher priority and red states generally rank at the lowest end of the scale for that. Eighteen of the top twenty states for health care are blue and eighteen of the bottom twenty are red. The bottom ten are all red.
YES, YES, YES, a million times, YES. Is this a trick question? The overwhelming majority of the counties in Red states are horrible, horrible places I never, ever want to go; ever. I am a self-admitted Northeastern/New England elitist who thinks the overwhelming majority of Southerners are barely functional people with a tenuous grip on reality, who possess zero critical thinking skills, and who have a fundamental misunderstanding of how government and society function.
“Gun-freedoms” are “better” in red states, but I’m not willing to trade all the other high standards of living I enjoy in blue states, just so I can freely buy 100 round drums for “self-defense” even though self-defense scenarios are on average over in about 5 rounds 🤦🏾♂️
You're free to own a firearm in blue states too. There's no state that doesn't allow you to have firearms. If you need 100 round drums for self defense you need shooting lessons. Well actually if you need that you shouldn't own a gun. Ya don't know what your doing then.
Blue state here (Marylander) I could never move to Florida first reason is because I have to worry about if my house is gonna get blown down/flooded every year due to hurricanes and second being a black man it’s just against my better interest to move to a state with a governor that hates Black people
Clearly, Black people live in Florida. That’s not what I’m saying but the politics of red states are worse for Black people than they are in blue states no stand your ground law for George Zimmerman to hide behind up here in Maryland
Red states are routinely ranked lower than blue states in healthcare education, lifespan Infrastructure and happiness Plus Most of their conservative policies harm Black people A group that I am a part of
The blue-red map of the United States would convey a more accurate impression if each state, or even county, was resized to reflect is population size rather than its land area. Alternatively the intensity of the blue or red could be adjusted to reflect the population size. A computer could easily do this.
Knot not whose there? Dennis you little wannabee socialist I see you old fool. Not knots....keep practicing....you can cure those negative premises Dennis you can't stop me. I'm smarter than you. Go on...report me again....ill just come back. Your time is done Dennis. You are the past
Blue states. In CA I got two free years of community college, low cost BA degree and teaching credential and a 20,000 grant to help me survive during unpaid student teaching. I have a union teaching job with fully paid health benefits and was able to buy a modest home in 2018. Blue states rule.
That's fantastic! 👏😃 In Toronto Canada, due to my low income, I'm getting school grants that cover nearly all my university costs. But of an apples/oranges comparison here I admit, even though Ontario is currently under Conservative rule, but the grant changes which allowed me the opportunity to attend university were initiated under the previous Liberal govt. As I finally realized how important politics are, I'm majoring in Political Science. I wish you much future success. 🙂👍
@@EVIL-C I was a political science major and loved it. I also love Canada and am visiting BC during late November. Just bw glad you live in Canada and not the US. I am very happy for you.
I was born and raised in Montana, so of course I love it. But cost is living going way up and wages aren’t rising in sync. It’s impossible to make a living wage unless you have higher education than a Bachelors degree and have a more specialized job. Medicaid is expanded there and unfortunately, a high number of people need it. But it is nice not having so many dang people around! Lol
But if your red state gov't is dictating what your county public schools can teach, and what healthcare is allowed in your county, and what kind of books are allowed in your county library, and preventing gun regulation, etc., etc., then your blue county isn't that blue.
as a person of colour, for me, only one category matters. "what colour state has lesser criminals, and more humane, considerate, non racist communities??" and if your answer was blue states? then i would say *HECK YEAH!! BLUE IS BETTER!!* 💙💙
It’s quite simple: blue states (with a few exceptions such as northern New England, New Mexico, etc,) are disproportionately urban. Urban areas have more wealth, more educational and career opportunities. Urban area ax also with their faster pace are culturally better at adapting to a changing world. I BUT that greater wealth and opportunities hide the bigger gap between the haves abs have nots within urban areas. Red states (with a few exceptions notably Florida and Texas) are disproportionately rural and small towns/small cities in its population. And areas like that have less wealth and opportunities, and more importantly are less welcoming to a changing culture and world. Many rural areas in blue states still vote Republican and even cities of 100,000 as well as college towns in red states vote Democrat. Rural areas that vote Democrat are either majority minority areas (African American areas in the Deep South, Native American reservations, and majority Latino areas of the southwest) as well as even small college towns and areas of natural beauty which have attracted artists, retirees, and tourists who come to stay such as Colorado Rockies and much of New England. Also the states that were red but have shifted blue are those were more rural and suburban not long ago but who’s cities have become more urban and diverse, (Virginia and Colorado first, then Georgia and Arizona) whereas states that have gone from blue to red like Ohio are rust belt that look to the past with nostalgia or Florida where the cities are disproportionately elderly who also fear change and look to the past nostalgically).
True, Vermont for example, though a rural state, has many old hippies and their descendants. That's why it's so progressive. Another state that has gone from blue to red is WV which wants to go back to the good old days when coal dominated and their towns were more prosperous. North Carolina is another state that's becoming more urban/suburban and diverse. Texas might be only a few cycles away from being a tossup state. And Florida has the demographics where Democrats can win it back with a strong national candidate and if they build a stronger state party. There's a lot of old people in Florida, but it's still very diverse and many liberals move there every year from around the country - that's why it's always been less conservative than the rest of the South.
@@Alex-fx5esidk, a bunch of insane, upper class cancel culture MAGA republicans have been moving there in huge droves in the past few years, and caused the state to shift more to the right. And the coast of living there has also skyrocketed. Even with no income tax and higher insurance premiums, all of that cancels out and then some. Even in high tax states like Illinois, it’s becoming more affordable to live there now, than it is in Florida.
8 out of top 10 states (or 14 out of top 20) for violent crimes rates are red states 5 out of top 10 states (or 13 out of top 20) for property crimes rates are red states there, metrics in which red states are "better"!
Crime is where there is racial diversity. If you are in a white Democrat area, you’re safe. If you’re in a white Republican area, you’re safe. If you’re in a diverse Democrat or Republican area, keep your head down.
In some ways yes, but rural areas in blue states likely have better access to healthcare and better healthcare, access to better public schools and libraries, a better social safety net, etc.
F you and these gas prices. This state should be red. Come down to so cal and praise obiden in the gas stations. We got some jokes for your pedo supporting behind. The dummy falls up stairs! 3 times in a row! This channels comment section is full of gumment kiss asses.
@@jefferyG499 you would run away like a coward if we started addressing you as a Biden supporter at the gas pump. I don't wine and I retaliate with jokes. Start wearing your biting shirt and see what happens. And not in just rich areas
I had more freedom when I lived in New Jersey than I do out here where I retired in Oklahoma! The roads are a thousand percent better in blue states cuz some of the roads that we have here that haven't been paved since the WPA paved them in the '30s!
I'm moving to an all blue state, as the purple prosperous one I live in is seeing a massive infestation of Floridians and is falling apart before our eyes.
Sure, you can broadly say that blue states are "better" but those states have a lot of problems too - so let's not get on our high horse about it. I live in Minnesota. Love the state but we have issues with our police departments, too many evictions occurring, our road maintenance budget sucks up way too much tax money, and many areas of the state are poorly developed. So, things could be better here too.
Wanna bet PDs, evictions and poorly developed areas are much worse in AL, AR, LA, MS, WV, MO, WY, OK, etc., etc., than in MN? Plus MN has severe winters. Higher road maintenance costs are to be expected.
@@tim3172half the people in most states don’t even vote so you can’t say that. Then of those who do, at least here in Ohio, somewhere around 35-48% vote democrat even in the reddest counties. So no, not everyone is horrible. 70% of us are just living our life. Progressive or non politically engaged.
Yeah, and that's got nothing to do with red state governance --they are NATIONAL parks. If red states had a say, they'd allow unfettered mining, drilling, logging and development on those lands. As it stands, they are actively destroying the parks by refusing to act on climate change.
When it comes to basic freedoms, like abortion rights and gay rights, and things like that, yeah. However, blue states have other problems. Right now, the city of Oakland in California is an absolute mess. They’re trying to recall the Alameda County DA over there. San Francisco also has massive problems right now. Things like cost-of-living, crime, homelessness and business closures.
Bay Area born and raised. Don't forget that SF was the tech Mecca before it wasn't. Makes a huge difference and therefore needs to be mentioned. Oakland being across the water was also impacted in big ways by this. Additionally, a large percentage of LE, even in CA, were die hard Trump supporters who very visibly pulled back from their duties in silent protest. I am a former police lieutenant and recognized it for what it was immediately.
Yes definitely for the average person, red states tend to have a much lower minimum wage while not being that much lower cost of living, at the same time having fewer labor protections.
I never understand (especially people who can afford them) those complaining about taxes and wanting to pay the least possible. If you want police and fire services, paved roads and bridges, plus all the other things government provides, then you have to have a high enough tax rate to pay for them. "tax and spend" is the main purpose of a government created to maintain a large society.
TLDR: No, better is a subjective term at such a large scale that requires a prioritization of values which simply causes one to justify pre-existing ideas (positive and negative) surrounding states.
I come from a parasite family (government dependent)and lived in a blue city, in a blue state. It was horrible it was full of addicts , high taxes, high crime rate and so on. Move to a red states in the middle of 2020 and I can tell you my quality of life is way better. The people are friendlier, crime rate is low, homeless are almost none existing. I’m about to get my first gun this month.
I would live in a red state any day of the week. not the crimes and high taxes like the blue states unless you live in the big democrat run big cities in the red states.
You should take, a few days off to read and understand just a few paragraphs clearly explaining that red states have higher per-capita crime rates than blue states and red cities have, by far, the highest per-capita crime rates of all cities. When you sit down and look at how 10 people are murdered in a town of 20,000 "wow, that's not bad." and then look at a city with 4000 murders but 20 million people and think "wow, that's a lot" there is something wrong with you. It's less than half the rate.
Well any big city is going to have crime, just bc the fact there's more ppl. But I notice ppl who don't have education and work low wage jobs complain about gov not helping, which is opposite of what their conservative views stand for. Talk to your greedy corporation you work for, not unlike the one that trump or Elon head and ask them to pay yall more or vote for better social policies to increase your quality of life like free childcare or better rds. I've noticed rural areas have the worst most dangerous rds to navigate on.
Hi, I’m a Japanese listener. We have a same situation over here. There are two things that Japanese red states are superior to the blues. One is agricultural produce, which really doesn’t contribute to our national GDP. And then there is the political power of these states, simply because there are more elected officials per capital in these regions. As per our constitution, this needs to be rectified, but the process is way too slow. Thus we end up with the conservatives to dominate for most part of the 75 years post WW2. A vote should be counted as an equal vote, regardless of where you are from. When things get skewed, democracy doesn’t work. I hope the US doesn’t get into that situation.
I always thought it was a funny stance. "Defend the state that costs the most to live in. I dare you." Why does your tiny brain thing it's so expensive to live there? If it was over-taxed then housing would be cheap. Housing is extremely expensive there. How can you have a society where everything is expensive? High earnings. People fight to their dying breath to stay there. Why would they do that? Because they *want* to live there. Why would they want to live there? Great culture, great job market (to help support expensive housing), great food, great scenery, iconic roads, great weather... I mean, what else do you look for in a state? A local hate group chapter to join?
@@spiderpickle3255the blue states have easier access to the outside world. Red states are essentially landlocked. Look at the map. Each and every blue state is on the coast, meaning they receive two things; benefits of international trade, and international influence. We don’t get that in red states.
@@spiderpickle3255long story short, the red states resent the blue states for their European style thinking. It’s frustrating because we do not understand that train of thought. It’s foreign to us.
They are better statistically on nearly every metric including average lifespans which can vary by up to 20 years vs some red areas! Dems goal should be to make Texas blue (big trends in that direction) and eliminate any possibility of GOP/Fascist rule
Blue states have real and diverse Japanese food like what you'd see in Japan. Red and Purple states mostly have hibachi pigslop and Americanised "sushi" 😷🤢
If you are non-white, non-cismale, non-Christian, non-wealthy, then HANDS DOWN blue states are better than red states. In red states your first-class citizenship and sometimes even your existence is part of the politics of the state. In blue states that would never happen. There are certainly enclaves in red states where people of these identities may have their existence or first class citizenship questioned less, but one could argue that enclave is still embattled. If we want to talk about poor white males, then red states are still going to be worse, but I can see how family and social networks would help it not be as big of an issue.
My conservative friends rail against Portland, Seattle or Austin because homeless, but this is typically after they have just visited and I always ask, "You knew the homeless issues exist when you made plans to go to these cities, but you went anyway?" They respond, "Yeah, because these cities have all great food, great beer, great weed (at least not legally in Austin) and just cool shit in general." They don't even see the hypocrisy and are otherwise at a loss to explain why many of the blue cities and states do way better than their conservative counterparts.
The people in red states may calll themselves lucky that the rich states are blue. In Europe the rich part of countries have strong extreme right movements to cut loose the poor parts. They don’t want to pay for those areas left behind anymore.
Nowhere in Europe is that even close to happening. There was a big drive by the Lombardy League in Northern Italy back in the 70s 80s to uncouple itself from the much poorer south, but it got nowhere. Many Catalonians want to secede from Spain and, their province is generally more affluent but only marginally so (nothing even approaching the difference between Massachusetts and Alabama for example) but again any attempt at independence has quickly fallen flat
I live just outside of ATL and it’s honestly weird going outside of metro Atlanta because of how different the state becomes. ATL is the best part of Georgia imo.
As someone who lives in Wyoming there's extremely low opportunity for just about everything. I'm in a unique situation that makes it economically advantageous. However, if i were to lose my job im running to a blue state.
David, do you have a website with the research for this video? Or, do you have a list of sorces? This is something the DNC needs as talking points. Also, is their an email list that goes to all the state and federal congressional Democratic officials, and if so how do i get access to this.
*My proposal for a new USA: Instead of 50 States, we should have only about 25:* 1. Combine the Dakotas 2. Combine the Carolinas 3. Combine the Virginias 4. Combine Kentucky & Tennessee as ONE = Kentessee? 5. Combine Oklahoma & Texas as ONE = Texahoma? 6. Combine Arkansas, Louisiana & Mississippi as ONE? 7. Combine Arizona & New Mexico as ONE = Arizico? 8. Combine Alabama & Georgia as ONE = Georama? 9. Combine Indiana & Ohio as ONE = Indihio? 10. Combine Iowa & Missouri as ONE = Missiowa? 11. Combine Oregon & Washington as ONE = Washegon? 12. Combine Kansas & Nebraska as ONE = Nebrasas?
Thank you DP for the simple truth. I was waiting for the the fact of "paid in, paid out", thinking about Woeful Wyoming, where the dying town I inhabit is rural hard scrabble ranching welfare recipient republican crony baloney. And even the republicats are fleeing for urban, not rural locations. Then you said "like Wyoming, the Dakotas, and Montana". I am laughing.
In Idaho the houses are more expensive than California and the wages are a lot lower. So California is actually now MORE affordable to live in than one of the closest red states
these comments are so amusing, ima be STRAIGHT up, downright, deviously honest, cities smell like shit. Not only that but the amount of crime in blue states is almost as bad as Jamacia
If you're going to trash-talk the farmer, don't talk with your mouth full. Manipulating the wealth that others have produced (e.g.: banking and the stock market) can be lucrative, and not dishonorable in itself, but it is not wealth production. At best, it serves the producers.
Look at the USA on Google Earth with roads highlighted. It's a massive grid with a mind boggling amount of wild converted to farms. A pocket of protected forest here and there. Growing up Canadian, we've always had the vast North. Makes the states feel weirdly claustrophobic when viewed from space.
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if you're planning on having a child? id suggest finding out which states have the worst infant mortality rates, hint : the 5 worst aint blue
When I choose state I want to live in I usually look up the amount of sex offenders, hint : the top worst is mostly blue
@@BonShulaMostly blue, really? Top 5 states with registered sex offenders per capita.
Arkansas-red
Alaska-red
South Dakota-red
Wisconsin-purple
Oregon-blue
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Texas
Cali
NY
Michigan
Illinois
Has the most.Nice try, I am not joining you in your endeavours
@@BonShula Per capita is a better metric bro. Otherwise, Texas and California are always going to be highest by sheer population. (btw, look at the top 10 per capita)
@@BonShula Nope, you use per capita because Texas and California and New York will almost always have the highest number of anything due to their sheer size and population.
Would you rather have 500 criminals in a population of 100,000 people (0.5%) or 100 criminals in a population of 1000 people(10%)?
I love it when people from red states act like their place is better because the houses are cheap, as if that’s not proof that nobody wants to live there.
I mean, houses sell here 2 days after they’re listed. Precisely because they’re $500k instead of $2.5M. You can live in a blue state, if you want to live in a 1BR apartment.
Houses aren't cheap anywhere, Joe. Get a grip.
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@@joefission7179 So, you have no convictions. Duly noted.
@@sergeant_salty Because people who can no longer afford to live in states where they want to live are forced to burden the states where people don't want to live.
Doctors, engineers, nurses, and the educated are FLEEING Texas and Florida in record numbers.
I would never live in a red state if I could help it. The typically lower cost of living is more than overshadowed by poor outcomes in almost every social metric. They are lower cost for a reason: because they don't fund much of any program, to the extent that they even have them.
time to get off the programs freeloader
@@dailyclipmafia5041 Programs include things like education, public safety, infrastructure, health services - things that make life better.
@@vitrifyFree syringes, needles and crack pipes for all!
@@vitrify welfare...
@@Deagle5000AEComing from a Red State, not really. Quality of life here is still pretty bad. I know lots of people who are struggling to get by and our state’s public services are horrible to navigate. The problem is that our state government doesn’t want to fund anything, and yet they’re confused about why businesses and young people are leaving to other states.
I live in Ohio. Primarily because the 4 bedroom home I own is $450k here and has the best school district in the state… and the same house is $2 million in the suburbs of Boston where I’d want to live. Can’t afford it.
Democrats should be happy some of us blue voters live here, or you wouldn’t have Greg Landsman in OH-1 and Sherrod Brown 💚
1 bedroom 35 minutes outside one of the big cities $840
did you choose ohio on a whim or was it familiar to you
@@masterchief1342 We have some family here, but otherwise - NC became very unaffordable. We shopped houses in Apex in 2014 that were $350k. By 2022 when we were were ready to move, those houses were $900k. I firmly believe the 3 C’s (most notably Cbus and Cincy) are where Raleigh was… about 10-15 years ago.
Mind you, we moved from Florida - a state that has completely gone to crap. Where OH might have a possibly acceptable political future - FL plainly does not. All it attracts is elderly conservatives, extremely conservative Cubans/Venezuelans, and the tax-averse rich. Not a good combo.
@@johngigante3294 That’s great, but we wanted 4 bedrooms and there was next to nothing meeting the criteria. We’re in one of the nicest Cincy suburbs - the public schools here have 99% college admission rates and top scores across the board… the nicest Boston suburbs (Newton/Needham/Wellesley/Dover/Weston/etc) are *4-5x the cost of these* , for older/smaller houses on way less land.
@MikeLikesChannel The upside of that is the increase in property value if you can afford to get in initially. I bought my home in Lexington for 850k ten years ago, now it's 2.2 million. On top of that, Lexington ranks in the top 10 for safest cities in America with some of the best public schools....and its where America started. Got to love the history, Amarika! 🇺🇸 Still, your right...vote blue no matter where you live.
Yes, in a demonstrable way.
The only thing I really hate about living in Massachusetts is the Winter. It's expensive, but average pay is higher and taxes go to better use here. The state also offers better help here.
Not to mention in some rankings, it has roughly 25% of the top 100 safest cities and the best public schools.
I live in Rhode island. I feel the same, maybe not necessarily about the tax spending, but I wouldn't trade this state for a red state any day. Hands down.
@@jeffreymarra231 how is living in Rhode Island? I’m looking to move to New England soon.
Winter is great for about a month and a half then it gets old quick. 😂
@@Theonetruegod-hw2ei Do it!! New England is wonderful, RI is a very pretty state to boot!
Blue MN had so much money left over this year everybody got tax refund checks starting at $260.
Mine was $520!
Yeah because they tax the shit out of people
Overtaxing people and giving you a little bit of money back is not good government.
@@leelandwilliams8669 nd thats what people dont undersrand! Gov will never offer money people out their pockets. All that c0vid money we received from Minnesota were all taxed and from who? Us the citizens!
I live in one of America's bluest towns in one of America's reddest states (New Orleans, Louisiana). We have a Democrat governor though 👍 thanks bobby jindal, your one upside was boning the LA GOP enough to give us a real gov for covid etc
I refuse to visit New Orleans simply because the area around it is too thick with red that I'd feel extremely unsafe, violated, fearful that I couldn't cross from red to blue fast enough if something were to happen. Like the battle of the bulge or something.. Surrounded by hate.
@@celebrityrog tbh you have to go looking in the "white flight" parishes (st Bernard, st Tammany, plaquemines, parts of West and East Jefferson parish) to find the real "MAGA" folk... they mostly avoid the city like the plague, especially during Mardi gras etc
They have their own little tribal "family gras" thing. "No nudity, no public drunkenness" etc etc
@@sergeant_salty well yes I think crime rates are higher in areas populated by a certain minority. if you look at chicago white and asian precincts are relatively safe and even the hispanic majority precincts are pretty safe as well. Only the south side is bad and its not just chicago in every major city same trend is followed.
@@sergeant_salty we don't have counties in this state, homeskillet.
@@arpandas2296 lol, that dude is totally a 13/50 type. They're desperate to point at things to support their white ethnostate
I live in the bluest county in all of the state of Kansas, Douglas County. We were a huge part of the reason the abortion ban failed here. If we can do that we can turn this MF around.
Abortion isn’t banned anywhere.
@@omegatafkalyes it is? Texas, Mississippi, Arkansas, and on and on
An interesting comparison would be rural areas in red states vs rural areas in blue states and cities in red states vs cities in blue states. Most rural areas are red regardless of the state and most cities are blue. The difference between red and blue states is whether the rural areas or cities control the state.
How do the blue states compare to European countries?
@@joshuataylor3550I think California itself is the fifth largest economy
@@arpandas2243 - in the world! The fifth largest in the fricking world!
@@mscoyote50 Yeah, the US is #1 and CA. is 5th in the world.
"California's GDP in 2022 was $3.6T, representing 14.3% of the total U.S. economy. If California were a country, it would be the 5th largest economy in the world, and more productive than India and the United Kingdom."
The less urban, the better
Yes, oh yes, blue states are far better than red states. More intelligent and educated populace, safer and more prosperous towns, more interesting and innovative work opportunities, and far more sane leadership at all levels. I would never live in a red state.
Safer ? Smarter ? Maybe over developed guys thinking they can be woman and have baby's is how smart blue states are !!!
The dummies(reps) here in Cali are letting illegals pous in by the thousands. The illegals have no respect for our country or its laws.
Exactly
😢 Not here in Seattle. We have the worst fentanyl and homelessness issues in the country. Been here for 30 years. It had suddenly gotten really bad over the past 3 years. Very unsafe for kids. Fentanyl traces are everywhere including public restrooms, buses, light rails, grocery stores, etc. People are leaving and property values are imploding. Public schools are closing and consolidating. This is not the Seattle I grew up in. 2019 seemed like it was the last time Seattle was amazing 😢
@@teeminator30Fox fan fiction.
Only if you care about education and equal rights.
Have you seen how liberals took black faces off products in the grocery store? So that all they see is white faces on products while shopping. I'm sure you didn't. Democrats are still mad Republicans free the slaves.
Then why do cherries like yourself keep leaving blue states for red states?
@@Horatio.Mantooth to dodge taxes that they voted for. FN fools.
@@Horatio.Mantooththey do but here is the thing you dont realize. They tend to move back relatively quickly because red states are that bad.
@@Horatio.Mantooth The people leaving blue states are overwhelmingly the poorly-educated and destitute, i.e. red voters.
They're turning blue states more blue.
Absolutely. Better culture, people, healthcare, less nazis and boomers. Smarter and not evil. The sooner the flyover country empties out for good and we use robots to handle the farming and stuff the better.
What a comment! Here’s an idea. Instead of using robots the US could always just import a bunch of people from foreign lands and use them to do all the farm work in the meantime. Just like the good old days Mr Never-so-much as stepped-in-a-field-before-never-mind-had-the-occasion-to-be-around-a-farm-animal.
Better people?? What a joke that is. I'll keep that in mind next time I get accosted on the NYC subway by a homeless naked mental patient that is high as a kite covered in his own vomit and feces or mugged by a gangbanger in LA or Chicago at gunpoint.
My blue state allows gay people to marry and adopt . And our libraries are not being targeted by book banning .
Also , my blue state provides free school lunch to all children , following Jesus word to feed the hungry .
No books are being banned. Only age restricted, liar.
BASED
I'm surprised anyone needs to ask the question.
Meaning?
@@speaktruth9631Meaning it's obvious that blue states are better by every metric people care about.
@@theprousteffect9717 Ask that to the Minnesota Democrat who was just assaulted in her driveway.
@@theprousteffect9717 Metrics people care about? Crime and money. Your blue states are obscene in both categories.
@@theprousteffect9717 Give me a metric where a blue state is better. I'll wait.
Ive lived in both. Red states tend to have lower cost of living. Blue states tend to have lower levels of nazis with guns. 🤷
Yeah you just have more nazis with masks and cross dressers
Maybe there are more nazis, but there are less gangbangers, gun violence than in Memphis, Chicago
I live in a blue state but in Boebert's district. It is crazy here.
Vote her out please
I'm sorry for your extra stress
I'm in California and have you seen our state's homeless problem? Newsom is a laughingstock. Obiden voters sure are quiet in this state. I don't see t-shirts or bumper stickers and not a single flag except if it contains a letter F before Biden. And if I did I wouldn't attack or harass I would ridicule. But y'all scared to represent
She only won by 500 votes. She will not win again in Colorado District 3.@@Jasoos_Jasonda
@@83delgadoDems don’t wear Biden merchandise because it’s a sign of cultish behavior. Even “harmless cults”: Harley Davison, Nike, Apple, Prada… people wear the brand.
Trumpism is that.
Those of us voting for Biden don’t put the politician’s brand on a pedestal. I’ve never worn a political shirt in my life or owned their hats or garb. I vote, and then go about my life.
In terms of quality of life yes imo. Minnesota here
I don’t know if 60” of snow is a great argument for QOL. The politics are decent up there, but your winter doesn’t fuck around.
@@MikeLikesChannel As opposed to boiling/freezing to death in Texas. Not to mention that Alaska barely gets any snow at all... outpacing Wisconsin by 18.13 inches annually.
David saying it depends but at the same time letting us now how much better blue states are based on metrics that should be the most valuable to everyone, like education and healthcare 😂
More churches, more murders, more guns. Go Big Red.
More guns, churches - right
Try Chicago, Baltimore, Detroit, Memphis, Newark, Philly, Oakland, Los Angeles, SF with their homelessness, gangsters and crimes, rent cost. U can say West Virginia with the drug addicts, but they have less crime, poorness, drive by, gangsters, property crime than in Memphis for example
Leave your pride at home and look at the metrics. Attacking a red state isn't an attack on regular Joes and Janes living there.
When people live in these states and vote blue, and out of state blue voters shit on us… it’s not appreciated.
I could leave Ohio and live in Massachusetts or NY too. Enough of us do that and you lose Sherrod brown and Greg landsman. Is that helpful? No.
Yes. "The south shall rise again" says it all.
Otherwise living quality, life length etc are better in blue states.
And things even improve if we go to Canada which has no Republican politicians or voters
You Dixiecrats crack me up. Y'all still mad the Republicans freed your slaves!
Our rent is like $600 cheaper though
@@sameash3153 Yeah, on that bigger cities tend to always be more expensive. Except for instance Vienna in Europe, where the market is not in control of the prices
Canada is not in great shape right now
@@YankeeDoodle2 Well, wasn't during the days of Harper either, but it for instance does feel safer than USA (and is)
This is an answer that no Republican or mainstream Democrat voter will like but I think the actual answer is yes, but only somewhat. Blue states are full of corporate Democrats in power and those corporate Democrats are usually a mixed bag. While better education systems and slightly better poverty rates are good things, blue states also lack important things that are found in social democracies such as universal healthcare, more reasonable housing costs and better labor rights.
Wages, cost of living, and all sorts of metrics are great to show the divide but the easiest one that everyone should remember? You live about 8 years longer on average in blue states. How is losing nearly a decade of life just to live in a red state so popular to so many people?
Why do people live longer?
@@timjodice100 you mean besides better education and better access to Healthcare? Red states generally have more obesity, more diabetes, more cancer, get less vaccines to help prevent serious illnesses which is directly tied to lower intelligence in red states over all, red states have lower regulations leading to more hazards for the people who live there whether or not you want to admit it.
You seem to be a Trump troll, trying to troll me doesn't do anything about people in red states dying nearly a decade before people in blue states, and it's an extremely clear message about how gullible Republicans are today.
@timjodice100 probably better access to healthcare and better education translating to more fit ppl pr better health behaviors, mental health excersizing etc
So much logic! Red State don’t understand that good 😢
I think the "cost of living in retirement" is a metric the red states like to throw around
Yes, it's real cheap to live in WV, MS, AL,...etc..you're also in horrible states for every health & well being statistic, life expectancy, poverty rate, etc..
I agree. It's essentially moving to gated communities in loosely regulated states. But it's a deceptive statistic that red states love to throw out @@grobble8954
Possibly, but for many retirees easy access to quality healthcare is just as likely to be a higher priority and red states generally rank at the lowest end of the scale for that. Eighteen of the top twenty states for health care are blue and eighteen of the bottom twenty are red. The bottom ten are all red.
So your argument is you like a high cost of living?
@@stevens7300these limousine liberals don't mind seeing others struggle because of their vote. They want to be the White Knight rescuer in most cases
They pay you to be homeless,
I don't know if that's "better"!
Your mother’s vagina manufactures defective goods.
Huh?
If a high ratio of pigs to people is important to you, then you might love living in a red state.
YES, YES, YES, a million times, YES. Is this a trick question? The overwhelming majority of the counties in Red states are horrible, horrible places I never, ever want to go; ever. I am a self-admitted Northeastern/New England elitist who thinks the overwhelming majority of Southerners are barely functional people with a tenuous grip on reality, who possess zero critical thinking skills, and who have a fundamental misunderstanding of how government and society function.
“Gun-freedoms” are “better” in red states, but I’m not willing to trade all the other high standards of living I enjoy in blue states, just so I can freely buy 100 round drums for “self-defense” even though self-defense scenarios are on average over in about 5 rounds 🤦🏾♂️
You're free to own a firearm in blue states too. There's no state that doesn't allow you to have firearms. If you need 100 round drums for self defense you need shooting lessons. Well actually if you need that you shouldn't own a gun. Ya don't know what your doing then.
@@BsTheLadynred
California and NYC
@@YankeeDoodle2 LOL, you can own a gun in both CA. and NYC. WTH are you even talking about?
Blue state here (Marylander) I could never move to Florida first reason is because I have to worry about if my house is gonna get blown down/flooded every year due to hurricanes and second being a black man it’s just against my better interest to move to a state with a governor that hates Black people
Who told you DeSantis hates black people?
What dawg I dad side is black and they live in Florida you tripping
Clearly, Black people live in Florida. That’s not what I’m saying but the politics of red states are worse for Black people than they are in blue states no stand your ground law for George Zimmerman to hide behind up here in Maryland
Red states are routinely ranked lower than blue states in healthcare education, lifespan Infrastructure and happiness Plus Most of their conservative policies harm Black people A group that I am a part of
The blue-red map of the United States would convey a more accurate impression if each state, or even county, was resized to reflect is population size rather than its land area. Alternatively the intensity of the blue or red could be adjusted to reflect the population size. A computer could easily do this.
Knot not whose there? Dennis you little wannabee socialist I see you old fool. Not knots....keep practicing....you can cure those negative premises
Dennis you can't stop me. I'm smarter than you.
Go on...report me again....ill just come back. Your time is done Dennis. You are the past
Yep. Land doesn't vote.
Blue states. In CA I got two free years of community college, low cost BA degree and teaching credential and a 20,000 grant to help me survive during unpaid student teaching. I have a union teaching job with fully paid health benefits and was able to buy a modest home in 2018. Blue states rule.
That's fantastic! 👏😃 In Toronto Canada, due to my low income, I'm getting school grants that cover nearly all my university costs. But of an apples/oranges comparison here I admit, even though Ontario is currently under Conservative rule, but the grant changes which allowed me the opportunity to attend university were initiated under the previous Liberal govt. As I finally realized how important politics are, I'm majoring in Political Science.
I wish you much future success. 🙂👍
@@EVIL-C I was a political science major and loved it. I also love Canada and am visiting BC during late November. Just bw glad you live in Canada and not the US. I am very happy for you.
That was before newsome. Now it's horrible
@@michaelhernandez5384 No- Newsom helped make community college free again. I am grateful to live in CA.
Conservatives don't like facts. It's hurts their fee-fees! 😂
Biden falls up stairs. Dispute that fact.
I was born and raised in Montana, so of course I love it. But cost is living going way up and wages aren’t rising in sync. It’s impossible to make a living wage unless you have higher education than a Bachelors degree and have a more specialized job. Medicaid is expanded there and unfortunately, a high number of people need it. But it is nice not having so many dang people around! Lol
I'm in WA and you're so right. You live in the most beautiful place I've ever laid eyes on and I still can't afford to move there
I'd rather visit a blue state be easier
It's not "blue states" vs "red states". It's blue counties vs. red counties really.
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But if your red state gov't is dictating what your county public schools can teach, and what healthcare is allowed in your county, and what kind of books are allowed in your county library, and preventing gun regulation, etc., etc., then your blue county isn't that blue.
@@kenbob1071
All those things sound great to me
@RUclipsuserlolz then you're uneducated on politics
as a person of colour, for me, only one category matters. "what colour state has lesser criminals, and more humane, considerate, non racist communities??" and if your answer was blue states? then i would say *HECK YEAH!! BLUE IS BETTER!!* 💙💙
What’s a “lesser criminal”?
You're describing red states m8
@@YankeeDoodle2 i said *lesser* criminals and *lesser* racism.
@@Savitar435
Red states are run by the party that ended slavery
An insightful answer to a shapeless question, thank you, David. Personally, I think the blue states would have more Golden Retrievers. 😂
Golden retrievers per capita could probably be used as a metric for best places to live😆
Well...duh.
Of course blue states are better.
Nah
@@michaelhernandez5384 Yes.
It’s quite simple: blue states (with a few exceptions such as northern New England, New Mexico, etc,) are disproportionately urban. Urban areas have more wealth, more educational and career opportunities. Urban area ax also with their faster pace are culturally better at adapting to a changing world. I BUT that greater wealth and opportunities hide the bigger gap between the haves abs have nots within urban areas.
Red states (with a few exceptions notably Florida and Texas) are disproportionately rural and small towns/small cities in its population. And areas like that have less wealth and opportunities, and more importantly are less welcoming to a changing culture and world.
Many rural areas in blue states still vote Republican and even cities of 100,000 as well as college towns in red states vote Democrat.
Rural areas that vote Democrat are either majority minority areas (African American areas in the Deep South, Native American reservations, and majority Latino areas of the southwest) as well as even small college towns and areas of natural beauty which have attracted artists, retirees, and tourists who come to stay such as Colorado Rockies and much of New England.
Also the states that were red but have shifted blue are those were more rural and suburban not long ago but who’s cities have become more urban and diverse, (Virginia and Colorado first, then Georgia and Arizona)
whereas states that have gone from blue to red like Ohio are rust belt that look to the past with nostalgia or Florida where the cities are disproportionately elderly who also fear change and look to the past nostalgically).
True, Vermont for example, though a rural state, has many old hippies and their descendants. That's why it's so progressive. Another state that has gone from blue to red is WV which wants to go back to the good old days when coal dominated and their towns were more prosperous.
North Carolina is another state that's becoming more urban/suburban and diverse. Texas might be only a few cycles away from being a tossup state. And Florida has the demographics where Democrats can win it back with a strong national candidate and if they build a stronger state party. There's a lot of old people in Florida, but it's still very diverse and many liberals move there every year from around the country - that's why it's always been less conservative than the rest of the South.
@@Alex-fx5esidk, a bunch of insane, upper class cancel culture MAGA republicans have been moving there in huge droves in the past few years, and caused the state to shift more to the right. And the coast of living there has also skyrocketed. Even with no income tax and higher insurance premiums, all of that cancels out and then some. Even in high tax states like Illinois, it’s becoming more affordable to live there now, than it is in Florida.
8 out of top 10 states (or 14 out of top 20) for violent crimes rates are red states
5 out of top 10 states (or 13 out of top 20) for property crimes rates are red states
there, metrics in which red states are "better"!
Crime is where there is racial diversity. If you are in a white Democrat area, you’re safe. If you’re in a white Republican area, you’re safe. If you’re in a diverse Democrat or Republican area, keep your head down.
You're looking at urban vs rural. Look at rural areas in blue states and they are just like rural areas in red states.
In some ways yes, but rural areas in blue states likely have better access to healthcare and better healthcare, access to better public schools and libraries, a better social safety net, etc.
Your map is wrong,the GOP has worked hard to make Ohio a red state...it this state is so screwed up because of it.
California and Michigan for this Liberal
What do you like about those states?
F you and these gas prices. This state should be red. Come down to so cal and praise obiden in the gas stations. We got some jokes for your pedo supporting behind. The dummy falls up stairs! 3 times in a row! This channels comment section is full of gumment kiss asses.
@@83delgado Would you like some cheese for your whine?
@@jefferyG499 you would run away like a coward if we started addressing you as a Biden supporter at the gas pump. I don't wine and I retaliate with jokes. Start wearing your biting shirt and see what happens. And not in just rich areas
I had more freedom when I lived in New Jersey than I do out here where I retired in Oklahoma! The roads are a thousand percent better in blue states cuz some of the roads that we have here that haven't been paved since the WPA paved them in the '30s!
And every road in New Jersey is a toll road.......
Yet you chose to move and you don’t move back.
New Jersey is one of the least free states in the union
On answering the thumbnail, yes.
I'm moving to an all blue state, as the purple prosperous one I live in is seeing a massive infestation of Floridians and is falling apart before our eyes.
Says no one ever 😂
Your channel name says everything we need to know. I don't want you on my side because you lie like a republikkklan.
@@speaktruth9631 No, says everyone who lives in a state currently being invaded by America-hating Floridians!
Sure, you can broadly say that blue states are "better" but those states have a lot of problems too - so let's not get on our high horse about it. I live in Minnesota. Love the state but we have issues with our police departments, too many evictions occurring, our road maintenance budget sucks up way too much tax money, and many areas of the state are poorly developed. So, things could be better here too.
Wanna bet PDs, evictions and poorly developed areas are much worse in AL, AR, LA, MS, WV, MO, WY, OK, etc., etc., than in MN? Plus MN has severe winters. Higher road maintenance costs are to be expected.
@@kenbob1071 well said.
New York and California have too many homeless people though 😢
Yes
New Mexico's governor decided to throw out the Constitution.
Is western Europe and America more modern than the Taliban? Same question, same answer.
Yes Blue States is better
Why?
@@DizzleDogblue states bring in more money than red states and they care more about their voters.
Pissed myself laughing at "miles of undeveloped land per capita".
I will say the red states have beautiful national parks.
Great scenery. horrible people.
@@tim3172half the people in most states don’t even vote so you can’t say that. Then of those who do, at least here in Ohio, somewhere around 35-48% vote democrat even in the reddest counties. So no, not everyone is horrible. 70% of us are just living our life. Progressive or non politically engaged.
Yeah, and that's got nothing to do with red state governance --they are NATIONAL parks. If red states had a say, they'd allow unfettered mining, drilling, logging and development on those lands. As it stands, they are actively destroying the parks by refusing to act on climate change.
Oh, that's an easy yes 100x better.
Better or not, I'm just glad I live in blue state where I can ACTUALLY be free
Look at how people vote with their feet, and you'll see which states provide more favorable conditions.
When it comes to basic freedoms, like abortion rights and gay rights, and things like that, yeah. However, blue states have other problems. Right now, the city of Oakland in California is an absolute mess. They’re trying to recall the Alameda County DA over there. San Francisco also has massive problems right now. Things like cost-of-living, crime, homelessness and business closures.
Bay Area born and raised. Don't forget that SF was the tech Mecca before it wasn't. Makes a huge difference and therefore needs to be mentioned. Oakland being across the water was also impacted in big ways by this. Additionally, a large percentage of LE, even in CA, were die hard Trump supporters who very visibly pulled back from their duties in silent protest. I am a former police lieutenant and recognized it for what it was immediately.
You go to any State and you will find Cities with problems it doesn't matter if it's California or Alaska or Texas or Colorado or Florida or New York.
Yes definitely for the average person, red states tend to have a much lower minimum wage while not being that much lower cost of living, at the same time having fewer labor protections.
From my experience, Montana's worse than Florida! It's white, and cold, and irritating…like who'd wanna live in a state where it snowed all April?!
Haha, gun ownership rights???
Neither, all states are purple.
I never understand (especially people who can afford them) those complaining about taxes and wanting to pay the least possible. If you want police and fire services, paved roads and bridges, plus all the other things government provides, then you have to have a high enough tax rate to pay for them. "tax and spend" is the main purpose of a government created to maintain a large society.
From a public health perspective, the comparison is pretty stark for the GOP
Thank you for sharing this.💪💙
TLDR: No, better is a subjective term at such a large scale that requires a prioritization of values which simply causes one to justify pre-existing ideas (positive and negative) surrounding states.
If welfare corrupts the morals of the recipient, then does that apply to the red states?
I come from a parasite family (government dependent)and lived in a blue city, in a blue state. It was horrible it was full of addicts , high taxes, high crime rate and so on. Move to a red states in the middle of 2020 and I can tell you my quality of life is way better. The people are friendlier, crime rate is low, homeless are almost none existing. I’m about to get my first gun this month.
Pretty sure blue states score better on most of those metrics because they are more urban, thus have more developed economies on average.
I’m not sure what you mean by “more developed economies,” but homelessness is far worse in blue areas so it isn’t working for everyone.
@@superscaryrussianbot846
Red states ship their homeless to blue states.
I would live in a red state any day of the week. not the crimes and high taxes like the blue states unless you live in the big democrat run big cities in the red states.
You should take, a few days off to read and understand just a few paragraphs clearly explaining that red states have higher per-capita crime rates than blue states and red cities have, by far, the highest per-capita crime rates of all cities.
When you sit down and look at how 10 people are murdered in a town of 20,000 "wow, that's not bad."
and then look at a city with 4000 murders but 20 million people and think "wow, that's a lot" there is something wrong with you. It's less than half the rate.
These boot lockers don't hear you. I agree though
Well any big city is going to have crime, just bc the fact there's more ppl. But I notice ppl who don't have education and work low wage jobs complain about gov not helping, which is opposite of what their conservative views stand for. Talk to your greedy corporation you work for, not unlike the one that trump or Elon head and ask them to pay yall more or vote for better social policies to increase your quality of life like free childcare or better rds. I've noticed rural areas have the worst most dangerous rds to navigate on.
Hi, I’m a Japanese listener. We have a same situation over here. There are two things that Japanese red states are superior to the blues. One is agricultural produce, which really doesn’t contribute to our national GDP. And then there is the political power of these states, simply because there are more elected officials per capital in these regions. As per our constitution, this needs to be rectified, but the process is way too slow. Thus we end up with the conservatives to dominate for most part of the 75 years post WW2. A vote should be counted as an equal vote, regardless of where you are from. When things get skewed, democracy doesn’t work. I hope the US doesn’t get into that situation.
Come on. Let me hear someone defending California 😂
Homicide rate per capita:
1. Mississippi 23.7
2. Louisiana 21.3
3. Alabama 15.9
3. New Mexico 15.3
4. South Carolina 13.4
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28. California 6.4
@@y0uCantHandleHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA amazing.
I always thought it was a funny stance.
"Defend the state that costs the most to live in. I dare you."
Why does your tiny brain thing it's so expensive to live there?
If it was over-taxed then housing would be cheap.
Housing is extremely expensive there.
How can you have a society where everything is expensive? High earnings.
People fight to their dying breath to stay there.
Why would they do that?
Because they *want* to live there.
Why would they want to live there? Great culture, great job market (to help support expensive housing), great food, great scenery, iconic roads, great weather... I mean, what else do you look for in a state? A local hate group chapter to join?
Red states better at church attendance.😂😂😂
Blue states got the better geography
The geography existed before the politics.
I don't think it's a coincidence that the places with the "better geography" ended up blue 🤷♀
@@spiderpickle3255the blue states have easier access to the outside world. Red states are essentially landlocked. Look at the map. Each and every blue state is on the coast, meaning they receive two things; benefits of international trade, and international influence. We don’t get that in red states.
@@spiderpickle3255long story short, the red states resent the blue states for their European style thinking. It’s frustrating because we do not understand that train of thought. It’s foreign to us.
They are better statistically on nearly every metric including average lifespans which can vary by up to 20 years vs some red areas!
Dems goal should be to make Texas blue (big trends in that direction) and eliminate any possibility of GOP/Fascist rule
Even as a democrat you can’t deny the blue states and cities are damn near dystopian.
Blue states certainly are more expensive.
Blue states have real and diverse Japanese food like what you'd see in Japan. Red and Purple states mostly have hibachi pigslop and Americanised "sushi" 😷🤢
Just look at land values. 🤷🏼♂️
If you are non-white, non-cismale, non-Christian, non-wealthy, then HANDS DOWN blue states are better than red states. In red states your first-class citizenship and sometimes even your existence is part of the politics of the state. In blue states that would never happen. There are certainly enclaves in red states where people of these identities may have their existence or first class citizenship questioned less, but one could argue that enclave is still embattled. If we want to talk about poor white males, then red states are still going to be worse, but I can see how family and social networks would help it not be as big of an issue.
Yes, they are.
Next question.
My conservative friends rail against Portland, Seattle or Austin because homeless, but this is typically after they have just visited and I always ask, "You knew the homeless issues exist when you made plans to go to these cities, but you went anyway?" They respond, "Yeah, because these cities have all great food, great beer, great weed (at least not legally in Austin) and just cool shit in general." They don't even see the hypocrisy and are otherwise at a loss to explain why many of the blue cities and states do way better than their conservative counterparts.
Better for whom?
The people in red states may calll themselves lucky that the rich states are blue. In Europe the rich part of countries have strong extreme right movements to cut loose the poor parts. They don’t want to pay for those areas left behind anymore.
Nowhere in Europe is that even close to happening. There was a big drive by the Lombardy League in Northern Italy back in the 70s 80s to uncouple itself from the much poorer south, but it got nowhere. Many Catalonians want to secede from Spain and, their province is generally more affluent but only marginally so (nothing even approaching the difference between Massachusetts and Alabama for example) but again any attempt at independence has quickly fallen flat
Red states support themselves blue states always need help
I live just outside of ATL and it’s honestly weird going outside of metro Atlanta because of how different the state becomes. ATL is the best part of Georgia imo.
As someone who lives in Wyoming there's extremely low opportunity for just about everything. I'm in a unique situation that makes it economically advantageous. However, if i were to lose my job im running to a blue state.
Blue States all have 2 things in common. High taxes and high cost of living.
And high quality of life and high education.
@@harryjohnson9136 ...and don't forget higher incomes.
@@harryjohnson9136and high crime, and high poverty...
Oh yeah, also no respect for the constitution so that's great as well.
David, do you have a website with the research for this video? Or, do you have a list of sorces? This is something the DNC needs as talking points. Also, is their an email list that goes to all the state and federal congressional Democratic officials, and if so how do i get access to this.
*There
I live in Colorado, and I'd say we are more purple than blue. Most of us here are independent voters.
Colorado hasn't been purple since the 2010s, if Colorado Springs wasn't in Colorado the GOP wouldn't have won a state office here since the 80s.
*My proposal for a new USA: Instead of 50 States, we should have only about 25:*
1. Combine the Dakotas
2. Combine the Carolinas
3. Combine the Virginias
4. Combine Kentucky & Tennessee as ONE = Kentessee?
5. Combine Oklahoma & Texas as ONE = Texahoma?
6. Combine Arkansas, Louisiana & Mississippi as ONE?
7. Combine Arizona & New Mexico as ONE = Arizico?
8. Combine Alabama & Georgia as ONE = Georama?
9. Combine Indiana & Ohio as ONE = Indihio?
10. Combine Iowa & Missouri as ONE = Missiowa?
11. Combine Oregon & Washington as ONE = Washegon?
12. Combine Kansas & Nebraska as ONE = Nebrasas?
Wtf you should get your citizenship revoked what kind of geological thinking of joe biden is thst😂😂😂 whats this gonna solve
Thank you DP for the simple truth. I was waiting for the the fact of "paid in, paid out", thinking about Woeful Wyoming, where the dying town I inhabit is rural hard scrabble ranching welfare recipient republican crony baloney. And even the republicats are fleeing for urban, not rural locations. Then you said "like Wyoming, the Dakotas, and Montana". I am laughing.
Learn how to write dude I know you're a Democrat but jeez
Yes. They are. In a direct comparison. They absolutely are.
In Idaho the houses are more expensive than California and the wages are a lot lower. So California is actually now MORE affordable to live in than one of the closest red states
these comments are so amusing, ima be STRAIGHT up, downright, deviously honest, cities smell like shit. Not only that but the amount of crime in blue states is almost as bad as Jamacia
If you're going to trash-talk the farmer, don't talk with your mouth full. Manipulating the wealth that others have produced (e.g.: banking and the stock market) can be lucrative, and not dishonorable in itself, but it is not wealth production. At best, it serves the producers.
I live in a blue town
And its great here for the most part
Only real issue is that abbott sucks as governor
Why?Because he buses all your landscapers to New York. You Democrats really love your slaves don't you
Look at the USA on Google Earth with roads highlighted. It's a massive grid with a mind boggling amount of wild converted to farms. A pocket of protected forest here and there. Growing up Canadian, we've always had the vast North. Makes the states feel weirdly claustrophobic when viewed from space.
"I've never experienced it but I have an extremely strong opinion about it because of a picture on Google."
K.
@@sergeant_salty Soon enough it'll be too hot to live in the Middle East and too dry in Africa. Migration today will look like a trickle.
@@jefferyG499 I've been south plenty, and flown over it plenty. Your country's just a tad overdeveloped.
@@sergeant_salty Dude, 5% of the Canadian forest burned this summer. Wise up.
@@sergeant_salty Here's an idea: why don't you go there, see if what you claimed is true.
Yes. Blue are more grown up, civilised, wealthier.
As someone living in a red state? Yes. Blue states are better.