https://old.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/13l6lx9/disney_pulls_plug_on_1_billion_development_in/
And blue states are the "pro-life" ones:
If data disinfects, here’s a bucket of bleach:
Texans are also 34% more likely to be raped and 25% more likely to kill themselves than Californians. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/sosmap/suicide-mortality/suicide.htm
Fort Worth, Texas, has the same population as San Francisco and has 1.5x as many murders. Again, a Republican mayor and Republican governor. Nobody ever writes about those places!
San Francisco has the same population as Jacksonville, Florida. Jacksonville, with a Republican mayor and a Republican governor, has had more than three times as many murders this year as San Francisco
Californians on average live two years, four months and 24 days longer than Texans. https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/08/04/liberal-policies-like-californias-keep-blue-state-residents-living-longer-study-finds/
Compared with families in California, those in Texas earn 13% less and pay 3.8 percentage points more in taxes. https://itep.org/whopays/ (Texas makes up for no wealth income tax with higher taxes and fees on the poor and more than double property tax for the middle class)
Sadly, the uncritical aping of this erroneous economic narrative reflects not only reporters’ gullibility but also their utility for conservative ideologues and corporate lobbyists, who score political points and regulatory concessions by spreading a spurious story line about California’s decline.
Don’t expect facts to change this. Reporters need a plot twist, and conservatives need California to lose.
https://www.sacbee.com/opinion/op-ed/article258940938.html
“In Republican states, states with Republican governors, crime rates tend to be higher”
Murder rates in the 25 states Trump carried in 2020 are 40% higher overall than in the states Biden won.
Criminologists say research shows higher rates of violent crime are found in areas that have low average education levels, high rates of poverty and relatively modest access to government assistance. Those conditions characterize [American South with Republican run states].
California Ranked #1 for Gun Safety, Death Rate 37% Lower than National Average
Californians 25% Less Likely to Die in a Mass Shooting
California laws would have ensnared Texas school gunman
Since Early 1990s, California Cut Its Gun Death Rate in Half
U.S. should follow California’s lead to improve its health outcomes, researchers say
It generated headlines in 2015 when the average life expectancy in the U.S. began to fall after decades of meager or no growth.
But it didn’t have to be that way, a team of researchers suggests in a new, peer-reviewed study Tuesday. And, in fact, states like California, which have implemented a broad slate of liberal policies, have kept pace with their Western European counterparts.
Simply shifting from the most conservative labor laws to the most liberal ones, Montez said, would by itself increase the life expectancy in a state by a whole year.
If every state implemented the most liberal policies in all 16 areas, researchers said, the average American woman would live 2.8 years longer, while the average American man would add 2.1 years to his life.
Whereas, if every state were to move to the most conservative end of the spectrum, it would decrease Americans’ average life expectancies by two years. On the country’s current policy trajectory, researchers estimate the U.S. will add about 0.4 years to its average life expectancy.
Meanwhile, the life expectancy in states like California and Hawaii, which has the highest in the nation at 81.6 years, is on par with countries described by researchers as “world leaders:” Canada, Iceland and Sweden.
The study, co-authored by researchers at six North American universities, found that if all 50 states had all followed the lead of California and other liberal-leaning states on policies ranging from labor, immigration and civil rights to tobacco, gun control and the environment, it could have added between two and three years to the average American life expectancy.
“We can take away from the study that state policies and state politics have damaged U.S. life expectancy since the ’80s,” said Jennifer Karas Montez, a Syracuse University sociologist and the study’s lead author. “Some policies are going in a direction that extend life expectancy. Some are going in a direction that shorten it. But on the whole, that the net result is that it’s damaging U.S. life expectancy.”
Montez and her team saw the alarming numbers in 2015 and wanted to understand the root cause. What they found dated back to the 1980s, when state policies began to splinter down partisan lines. They examined 135 different policies, spanning over a dozen different fields, enacted by states between 1970 and 2014, and assigned states “liberalism” scores from zero — the most conservative — to one, the most liberal. When they compared it against state mortality data from the same timespan, the correlation was undeniable.
“When we’re looking for explanations, we need to be looking back historically, to see what are the roots of these troubles that have just been percolating now for 40 years,” Montez said.
From 1970 to 2014, California transformed into the most liberal state in the country by the 135 policy markers studied by the researchers. It’s followed closely by Connecticut, which moved the furthest leftward from where it was 50 years ago, and a cluster of other states in the northeastern U.S., then Oregon and Washington.
Liberal policies on the environment (emissions standards, limits on greenhouse gases, solar tax credit, endangered species laws), labor (high minimum wage, paid leave, no “right to work”), access to health care (expansion of Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, legal abortion), tobacco (indoor smoking bans, cigarette taxes), gun control (assault weapons ban, background check and registration requirements) and civil rights (ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment, equal pay laws, bans on discrimination and the death penalty) all resulted in better health outcomes, according to the study. For example, researchers found positive correlation between California’s car emission standards and its high minimum wage, to name a couple, with its longer lifespan, which at an average of 81.3 years, is among the highest in the country.
In the same time, Oklahoma moved furthest to the right, but Mississippi, Georgia, South Carolina and a host of other southern states still ranked as more conservative, according to the researchers.
West Virginia ranked last in 2017, with an average life expectancy of about 74.6 years, which would put it 93rd in the world, right between Lithuania and Mauritius, and behind Honduras, Morocco, Tunisia and Vietnam. Mississippi, Oklahoma and South Carolina rank only slightly better.
It’s those states that moved in a conservative direction, researchers concluded, that held back the overall life expectancy in the U.S.
California exodus is just a myth, massive UC research project finds
on a per capita basis, california households ranked 50th in the country for likelihood of moving out of the state
California cities have some of the lowest rates of crime and homicides, especially compared to Texas:
California policies increase American life expectancy and prop up America's entire economy:
California is the chief reason America is the only developed economy to achieve record GDP growth since the financial crisis.
Much of the U.S. growth can be traced to California laws promoting clean energy, government accountability and protections for undocumented people
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-05-10/california-leads-u-s-economy-away-from-trump
"Don't California my Texas!"
As the Republican-led state legislature has slashed funding to reproductive healthcare clinics, the maternal mortality rate doubled over just a two-year period
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/aug/20/texas-maternal-mortality-rate-health-clinics-funding
Mothers who live in areas with heavy oil and gas developments have between a 40 percent and 70 percent greater chance of giving birth to babies with congenital heart defects
As the maternal death rate has mounted around the U.S., a small cadre of reformers has mobilized.
Some of the earliest and most important work has come in California
Hospitals that adopted the toolkit saw a 21 percent decrease in near deaths from maternal bleeding in the first year.
By 2013, according to Main, maternal deaths in California fell to around 7 per 100,000 births, similar to the numbers in Canada, France and the Netherlands — a dramatic counter to the trends in other parts of the U.S.
California Maternal Quality Care Collaborative is informed by a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Stanford and the University of California-San Francisco, who for many years ran the ob/gyn department at a San Francisco hospital.
Launched a decade ago, CMQCC aims to reduce not only mortality, but also life-threatening complications and racial disparities in obstetric care
It began by analyzing maternal deaths in the state over several years; in almost every case, it discovered, there was "at least some chance to alter the outcome."
http://www.npr.org/2017/05/12/527806002/focus-on-infants-during-childbirth-leaves-u-s-moms-in-danger
A low-income resident of San Francisco lives so much longer that it's equivalent to San Francisco curing cancer. All these statistics come from a massive new project on life expectancy and inequality that was just published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
California, for instance, has been a national leader on smoking bans. Harvard's David Cutler, a co-author on the study "It's some combination of formal public policies and the effect that comes when you're around fewer people who have behaviors... high numbers of immigrants help explain the beneficial effects of immigrant-heavy areas with high levels of social support.
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When Joe Rogan and Elon Musk push Texas "libertarian" "freedom":
https://www.freedominthe50states.org/personal/texas
Every other study ranks us as last in personal freedom.
Which makes me wonder, who is free, if it isn't the people?
Big businesses? And what are they free to do?
https://www.reddit.com/r/texas/comments/zyiry8/when_did_reddit_start_hating_texas/j2786vc/
You Could Get Prison Time for Protesting a Pipeline in Texas—Even If It’s on Your Land
https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/bst8fl/you_could_get_prison_time_for_protesting_a/
Leaked Audio Shows Oil Lobbyist Bragging About Success in Criminalizing Pipeline Protests
https://www.reddit.com/r/energy/comments/ct71mw/leaked_audio_shows_oil_lobbyist_bragging_about/
Fossil Fuel Exec Brags of 'Hitting the Jackpot' as Natural Gas Prices Surge Amid Deadly Crisis in Texas
https://www.reddit.com/r/texas/comments/lma8jj/texas_spent_more_time_fighting_lgbtq_civil_rights/
could cost Texas more money than any disaster in state history
https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/ls5dt7/winter_storm_could_cost_texas_more_money_than_any/
Former Texas Governor Rick Perry says that Texans find massive power outages preferable to having more federal government interference in the state's energy grid.
Abbott Appointees Gutted Enforcement of Texas Power Grid Rules
Texas Lt. Governor Dan Patrick Blames Constituents for Giant Electric Bills: “Read the Fine Print”
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/02/dan-patrick-texas-electricity-bills
Why on earth would right-wing people with connections to the fossil fuel industry lie about ‘frozen wind turbines’ in Texas?
How Much the Oil Industry Paid Texas Republicans Lying About Wind Energy
https://earther.gizmodo.com/how-much-the-oil-and-gas-industry-paid-texas-republican-1846288505
"Texas shows that when you cannot govern, you lie. A lot."
https://www.reddit.com/r/texas/comments/m87bg4/a_texassize_failure_followed_by_a_familiar_texas/
Texas Republicans during the power grid failures focused on:
Texas regulations to require the national anthem at sports games: https://twitter.com/LSTrip44/status/1361396222028881924
Fake news trying to blame renewable energy: ”Viral Image Claiming to Show a Helicopter De-Icing Texas Wind Turbines Is From Winter 2014 in Sweden” https://twitter.com/klimatbevakaren/status/1361748269605519360
The Republicans have lost the popular vote in six of the past seven presidential elections. 1,000 polling places have since closed across the country, with many of them in southern black communities.
The senator also cracked: “There’s a lot of liberal folks in those other schools who maybe we don’t want to vote. Maybe we want to make it just a little more difficult, and I think that’s a great idea.”
https://www.ft.com/content/d613cf8e-ec09-11e8-89c8-d36339d835c0
The Student Vote Is Surging. So Are Efforts to Suppress It. The share of college students casting ballots doubled from 2014 to 2018. But in Texas and elsewhere, Republicans are erecting roadblocks to the polls.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/24/us/voting-college-suppression.html
This is how efficiently Republicans have gerrymandered Texas congressional districts
Crystal Mason Thought She Had The Right to Vote. Texas Sentenced Her to Five Years in Prison for Trying.
Texas’s Voter-Registration Laws Are Straight Out of the Jim Crow Playbook
New Texas history textbooks will teach high schoolers that slavery wasn't all bad
https://splinternews.com/new-texas-history-textbooks-will-teach-high-schoolers-t-1793850439
Texas textbook “The Atlantic slave trade brought millions of workers”
Proposed Texas textbooks are inaccurate, biased and politicized, new report finds
There were other doozies, too, such as one proposal to remove Thomas Jefferson from the Enlightenment curriculum
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2014/09/12/proposed-texas-textbooks-are-inaccurate-biased-and-politicized-new-report-finds/"Don't California my Texas!"
As the Republican-led state legislature has slashed funding to reproductive healthcare clinics, the maternal mortality rate doubled over just a two-year period
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/aug/20/texas-maternal-mortality-rate-health-clinics-funding
Mothers who live in areas with heavy oil and gas developments have between a 40 percent and 70 percent greater chance of giving birth to babies with congenital heart defects
As the maternal death rate has mounted around the U.S., a small cadre of reformers has mobilized.
Some of the earliest and most important work has come in California
Hospitals that adopted the toolkit saw a 21 percent decrease in near deaths from maternal bleeding in the first year.
By 2013, according to Main, maternal deaths in California fell to around 7 per 100,000 births, similar to the numbers in Canada, France and the Netherlands — a dramatic counter to the trends in other parts of the U.S.
California Maternal Quality Care Collaborative is informed by a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Stanford and the University of California-San Francisco, who for many years ran the ob/gyn department at a San Francisco hospital.
Launched a decade ago, CMQCC aims to reduce not only mortality, but also life-threatening complications and racial disparities in obstetric care
It began by analyzing maternal deaths in the state over several years; in almost every case, it discovered, there was "at least some chance to alter the outcome."
http://www.npr.org/2017/05/12/527806002/focus-on-infants-during-childbirth-leaves-u-s-moms-in-danger
A low-income resident of San Francisco lives so much longer that it's equivalent to San Francisco curing cancer. All these statistics come from a massive new project on life expectancy and inequality that was just published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
California, for instance, has been a national leader on smoking bans. Harvard's David Cutler, a co-author on the study "It's some combination of formal public policies and the effect that comes when you're around fewer people who have behaviors... high numbers of immigrants help explain the beneficial effects of immigrant-heavy areas with high levels of social support.
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"Welfare queens!"
No to help for blue states for hurricanes but demanding help for Texas for hurricanes:
Here's the vote for Hurricane Sandy aid.
179 of the 180 no votes were Republicans...
at least 20 Texas Republicans voted no
while "U.S. House approves billions more for Harvey relief" for Texas
Meanwhile, the California-hating South receives subsidies from California dwarfing complaints in the EU (the subsidy and economic difference between California and Mississippi is larger than between Germany and Greece!), a transfer of wealth from blue states/cities/urban to red states/rural/suburban with federal dollars for their freeways, hospitals, universities, airports, even environmental protection:
Least Federally Dependent States:
41 California
42 Washington
43 Minnesota
44 Massachusetts
45 Illinois
46 Utah
47 Iowa
48 Delaware
49 New Jersey
https://www.apnews.com/amp/2f83c72de1bd440d92cdbc0d3b6bc08c
https://wallethub.com/edu/states-most-least-dependent-on-the-federal-government/2700
The Germans call this sort of thing "a permanent bailout." We just call it "Missouri."
OK violent crime rate: 458 per 100K
NY violent crime rate: 364 per 100K
OK murder rate: 7.25
NY murder rate: 4.11
% of Oklahomans who say crime is most urgent issue: 5
% of New Yorkers: 28
https://www.reddit.com/r/texas/comments/m7zk8w/texasbased_hate_group_source_of_80_of_all_us/
Russians were "emboldened" by the easy success of the Texas governor's misinformation about Obama and our own military:
https://www.snopes.com/news/2018/05/03/jade-helm-russia-abbott-hayden/
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/07/magazine/the-agency.html https://www.yahoo.com/news/russian-trolls-schooled-house-cards-185648522.html
Visualization of Texans moving to other states:
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Conservatives on Reddit brag about pushing every local crime story to the top of targeted local subreddits but not their local ones (even though statistically they have more homicides and crime in their cities but those aren't their top posts every single day in their local subreddits) by brigading to "control the narrative" about "liberal cities" and "blue states"
[–]inconvenientnews [score hidden] 2 hours ago
Conservatives on Reddit brag about pushing every local crime story to the top of targeted local subreddits but not their local ones (even though statistically they have more homicides and crime in their cities but those aren't their top posts every single day in their local subreddits) by brigading to "control the narrative" about "liberal cities" and "blue states"
The real value is getting into a thread early and establishing top voted posts and comments or downvoting them out of existence. They hope intertia continues the trend for them.
SeattleWA has one mentally ill man who makes literally dozens and dozens of alt accounts to post conservative talking points from and how he finds black women disgusting. I become aware of his accounts when he posts in TV subs I ban him from, and he always has user history in similar sets of subreddits across his accounts, SeattleWA being the most telling. He will use these accounts to talk with himself or dogpile a comment or thread.
They are right wing political activists actively working to discredit the progressive movement and democrats in general by ensuring San Francisco is painted as a failure in all contexts they can find. Basic political astroturfing. San Francisco is targeted because it is in California and Pelosi is from here. This work has been going on for decades.
One Texas conservative in r/sanfrancisco was 10 different accounts, all having a history of identical comments (some comments about living in Texas), sometimes pretending to be annoying woke strawman "S J W" saying there is no crime by blacks so that his own alts can reply with black crime talking points
One "Californian" who posted about every local crime story, even every whale death, also posted about how he lives in Vegas, grew up in Texas, and has proudly never been to California https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/2147236-starter-packs
Anti-mask posts suddenly dropped in r/bayarea when mods removed outside conservative accounts brigading r/bayarea:
Every local subreddit explaining the abuse and tactics on a thread 5 years ago:
https://www.reddit.com/r/minnesota/comments/7jkybf/t_d_user_suggests_infiltrating_minnesota/dr7m56j/