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It is easy to confuse what's happening here.
There are two kinds of deadly "red states". The traditional South, which is violent - cities and country have more murder per capita than almost anywhere else except for selected neighborhoods of certain big cities.
And there there is the lonely west, where men shoot themselves a lot.
Iowa is largely a red state and has much lower rates of either murder or suicide than Mississippi or Montana.
I don't think there is anything controversial about pointing out that the South is violent. Red northern places don't have that culture. The very reddest parts of WA or OR is nothing like the South.
The other violence and suicide hot spots are Reservations, which also make up a large portion of states like Wyoming.
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There are two kinds of deadly "red states". The traditional South, which is violent - cities and country have more murder per capita than almost anywhere else except for selected neighborhoods of certain big cities.
And there there is the lonely west, where men shoot themselves a lot.
Iowa is largely a red state and has much lower rates of either murder or suicide than Mississippi or Montana.
I don't think there is anything controversial about pointing out that the South is violent. Red northern places don't have that culture. The very reddest parts of WA or OR is nothing like the South.
The other violence and suicide hot spots are Reservations, which also make up a large portion of states like Wyoming.
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