This has been quietly suggested for years.
If you drew a circle of 800 miles around Iowa....you’d find statistics very similar to France or Germany, in terms of violence and murder.
If you draw a 800 mile circle around DC...to include Baltimore, Prince Georges County, and Montgomery county....you’ve got over 600 people killed on average a year. The assault and robbery numbers would be a national disgrace. Thankfully....no one gathers statistics like this.
It also works the same way for carbon footprints. If you were curious....most southern state have a carbon footprint similar to Germany or France. Then you come to Cal and Conn, which have tremendous footprints, because of the number of older coal plants and the amount of carbon they produce. Over thirty US states would be considered pro-active and carbon friendly....if they weren’t lumped into the same group with Conn and Cal.
somehow I think the “little circle” approach might be interesting the left beginning today.
FYI, Connecticut had 2 coal-fired generating stations in 2005, with 614 MW of capacity, representing only 7.0% of the state’s total electric generating capacity; Connecticut ranks 40th out of the 50 states in terms of coal-fired electric generating capacity.
The murder rate for non-Hispanic whites is about the same as for the European murder rate. The murder rate for Hispanics is higher, and the rate for blacks is highest. If you separate out the non-European-descent demographics, what you have is the European rate.