ABlueView🧵1/2 Red States Have A Murder Crisis:
* The red state murder rate was 33% higher than the blue state rate in both 2021 & 2022.
* 8 of the 10 states with the highest murder rates in 2022 voted for Trump in both 2016 & 2020. https://tinyurl.com/5n83uhey
The 21st Century Red State Murder Crisis – Third Way
We found that murder rates were down 5% nationwide in 2022, but a red state murder gap still persists. Murder rates in red states were 33% higher than in blue states in both 2021 and 2022. As in 2019 and 2020, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Alabama hold the first, second, and third highest murder rates in the country, respectively. The rest of the 10 states with the highest murder rates include the usual suspects—South Carolina, Missouri, Tennessee, New Mexico, and Georgia. States with the highest murder rates continue to be dominated by red states, not perennial blue states like New York and California.
