Schatz: Why are crime rates and abortions lower in democratic states?
Research show that both crime rates and the percentage of abortions are lower in democratic / blue states. This is counterintuitive. Republican rhetoric is much more vocal about adherence to traditional values, such as opposing abortions, being though on crime, etc. Still there is a higher percentage of these abominations in these states. Why?
Answers and Views:
Answer by Grand Theft Pants™ (the 4th)
I’m not going to take your word for it. Please provide some sort of research that would cause you to believe that.
Lots of poverty in the deep south, trailer parks, republican states and you are very right.Answer by Liberals R Idiots
Do more research before posting such BS.Answer by wolfette
I to would like those links considering California is a dem state.however the smart ass in me wants say cause they were all to stoned to come out..Answer by Bill G IV
Who needs abortions when such a large percentage of “democratic” state citizens is homosexual?Answer by Trolling Rock
Come visit here by Detroit for a few days
Hahahahahaaha
Answer by Edward BPlease provide proof of your assertions.Answer by Bob S
Research does not show this.
You are lying (must be democrat).
Besides, most terrorists do not operate on their own home soil, so that would explain any disparity there.
Answer by MikhailDo you have proof of this?
why is the crime rate amongst blacks 6 times higher than average? I hope you aren’t offended by my “racist” fact.Answer by Shae
I’d be very interested in knowing where your statistics come from. Because, I searched and was only able to come up with this :
Now, forgive me if I’m wrong, but that doesn’t appear to me to be a republican-centric set of figures.Answer by cantcu
I am not sure that is entirely correct however.
Take Texas and Alaska for instance. They are #1 and #2 in teen pregnancy. Both states teach abstinence and Texas had about the worst voter turnout #5 from the bottom, in the elections.
Democratic states you will find generally have higher IQ’s and make more money than Republican states.
“Eight of the top ten Obama states plus D.C. have above-average abortion rates; the only exceptions are tiny Vermont and Illinois, where the abortion rate is only slightly below the national average. The only other states with above-average abortion rates are New Jersey, Nevada, and Florida. The state with by far the lowest abortion rate, Wyoming, also had the lowest Obama percentage. The highest abortion rate states are clustered at the geographic edges, the northeast, southeast, and southwest of America; in the vast geographic heartland the abortion rates are relatively low.
Roe v. Wade imposed the same legal abortion regime on the entire nation and made abortion a national political issue. Yet Americans in different regions and states have in effect established very different behavioral abortion regimes. Abortion is very common in New York (abortion rate of 38.2) and New Jersey (34.3), only about half as common in Illinois (18.9) and Texas (17.3), and lower in South Carolina (7.9) and Utah (6.4). Cultural liberals have noted that divorce rates are relatively low in some politically liberal states like Massachusetts and relatively high in some politically conservative states like Oklahoma. But abortion rates seem highly correlated with cultural attitudes and with, at least during the time that abortion has been a major political issue, voting behavior.”https://blog.american.com/?p=7192
Of course this is written by the conservative right, among them Newt Gingrich.
Notice they left out the teen pregnancy rates in all of these states. Ever wonder why?
Answer by JeffGWell, I’m not sure this is completely true. With regards to crime rate, yes, the red states have higher crime rate by almost any measure.
Crime rates *) (see ref.)
The University of Minnesota Center for the Study of Politics and Governance (University of Minnesota’s Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs) did some number crunching based on the Uniform Crime Reports 2008 from FBI.
The average violent crime rate (murder, forcible rape, robbery, aggravated assault) in 2008 for the 28 states that voted for Barack Obama in the 2008 Presidential election was 389 incidents per 100,000 residents. The average violent crime rate for the 22 states that voted for John McCain was 412 incidents per 100,000 residents – or a 5.8 percent higher incidence of violent crime.
For example, 2 of the top 3 states with the highest violent crime rates in the nation in 2008 voted for McCain: South Carolina (#1) and Tennessee (#3). (Nevada was #2).
The difference was even more pronounced for property crimes (burglary, larceny-theft, and motor vehicle theft). Obama states had an average property crime rate of 2,989 incidents per 100,000 residents, with McCain states averaging a rate of 3,228 – or an 8.0 percent higher incidence of property crime.
Eight of the top 11 states with the highest property crime rates voted for McCain: Arizona (#1), South Carolina (#2), Alabama (#4), Tennessee (#6), Georgia (#7), Texas (#8), Arkansas (#10), and Louisiana (#11).
These crime rate findings hold despite the fact that blue states have a higher population of residents in urban areas, which tend to have higher crime rates than rural areas. According to the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2000 Census of Population and Housing, Population and Housing Unit Counts, the average statewide percentage of residents living in urban areas in the Obama states was 78.0 percent, compared to a statewide average of just 64.6 percent in the McCain states.
The red state/blue state crime data split also holds true across other measures of statewide partisan groupings.
For example, a Smart Politics analysis of partisan control of state legislatures finds the 27 states with Democratic-controlled legislatures with an average violent crime rate of 390 incidents per 100,000 residents. The average violent crime rate for the 14 states with Republican-controlled legislatures was 11.1 percent higher, at 433 incidents per 100,000 residents. (The rate was lowest among eight states with split partisan control – at 382).
There was also a double-digit percentage difference for property crime rates among the states with Democratic and Republican controlled legislatures. For Democratic-controlled states, the property crime rate was 3,044 incidents per 100,000 residents compared to 3,351 incidents per 100,000 residents for Republican-controlled states – or a 10.1 percent higher rate under GOP legislative control.
The differences in the rate of violent and property crimes between states along partisan lines by control of the governor’s office were less stark, but still pointed in the same direction. The 22 states with Republican governors had a 0.4 percent higher violent crime rate in 2008 (400 incidents per 100,000 residents) than the 28 states with Democratic governors (398) as well as a 6.0 percent higher property crime rate (3,196 for GOP states and 3,014 for Democratic states).
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With regards to abortion rates, that is not really true, although some red states are high. It is true with many “family values” that the red states fail on these: the number of teen pregnancies is much higher in red states, the divorce rates are higher, etc.
Abortion rates **)
These red or reddish states have high numbers for frequency of abortion, just under the national “233/1000” average: Alabama, Alaska, Georgia, Maine, Montana, New Mexico, Tennessee, Texas.
Right at or above the norm: Georgia, Kansas, Nevada, North Carolina, Virginia.
The smaller, redder states also tend to have the highest percentage of mothers under the age of 19 electing to have abortions. Among the leaders: Montana, Alaska, North Dakota. Vermont.
States with the highest rates of legal abortions, at 400 per 1000 lives births or greater: New York, then Florida and Rhode Island. The rate for New York City is over 700/1000.
**) New study done by the Guardian, see link.
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Teenage pregnancies ***)
The states with the highest birth rates per 1,000 estimated female population aged 15-19 years:
44,8 District_Columbia, 38,2 Texas, 37,8 New Mexico, 37,6 Mississippi, 35,0 Arizona, 31,7 Louisiana, 31,6 Arkansas, 31,5 Alabama, 31,4 Georgia, 30,1 Oklahoma
9 out of 10 are red states.
And the states with the lowest birth rates of 15-17 year olds.
8,1 New Hampshire, 10,4 Vermont, 11,7 North Dakota, 11,9 Maine, 12,5 Massachusetts, 14,1 Connecticut, 14,2 Minnesota, 14,7 New Jersey, 15,7 New York, 15,9 Wisconsin
9 out of 10 are blue states.
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Divorce rates ****)
The states with the lowest divorce rates:
2,2 Massachusetts, 2,5 Pennsylvania, 2,6 Illinois, 2,8 Minnesota, 2,8 Iowa, 2,8 North Dakota, 2,9 Connecticut, 3,0 New York, 3,0 Rhode Island, 3,0 New Jersey
8 out of 10 are “blue states”.
The states with the highest divorce rates:
6,4 Nevada, 6,3 Arkansas, 5,3 Wyoming, 5,1 Idaho, 5,0 Tennessee, 4,9 Kentucky, 4,8 Florida, 4,8 Alaska, 4,7 Alabama
4,7 West Virginia
10 out of 10 are “red states”.
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