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You know, you can cut and paste this into excel and sort it by violent crime. What you have is only 4 states with a "B" rating and above in the Lowest 20 states for violent crime. I'll try to cut and paste it back in my next post, hopefully, the formats won't get too screwed up.

[correctthought]

Here's the resorted table, lowest rate of violent crime to highest: 2002 "Grade" VC Rate M-Rate DeathRate

NDakota D 78.20 0.80 1.20

Vermont D- 106.70 2.10 1.90

Maine F 107.80 1.10 1.60

N Hamp D+ 161.20 0.90 2.30

S Dak D 177.40 1.40 3.60

Wiscsin C+ 224.90 2.80 4.00

W Virg D 234.30 3.20 2.90

Utah D- 236.90 2.00 3.50

Idaho F+ 254.90 2.70 6.30

Hawaii A- 262.00 1.90 1.50

Minn C+ 267.50 2.20 2.60

Wyoming F 273.50 3.00 6.40

Kentcky F 279.00 4.50 3.20

Rhode I B- 285.20 3.80 2.20

Iowa C+ 285.60 1.50 3.40

Virg C- 291.40 5.30 4.00

Oregon C- 292.40 2.00 1.80

Conn A- 311.10 2.30 1.70

Neb B- 313.90 2.80 3.80

Missi F 343.30 9.20 4.10

Wash D+ 345.40 3.00 2.30

Ohio D+ 351.30 4.60 2.70

Montana F 351.50 1.80 5.20

Colo C- 352.40 4.00 4.20

Indiana D- 357.20 5.90 3.30

N Jery A- 374.50 3.90 1.10

Kansas C+ 376.60 2.90 4.70

Penn D+ 401.90 5.10 3.20

Ark D 424.40 5.20 4.20

Alabama F 444.20 6.80 5.20

Georgia D 458.80 7.10 4.50

N Carol C 470.20 6.60 3.80

Mass A- 484.40 2.70 1.50

N York B+ 496.00 4.70 2.60

Okla D- 503.40 4.70 4.30

Missou C 538.70 5.80 5.90

Mich D+ 540.30 6.70 3.70

Arizona D 552.90 7.10 5.10

Alaska D- 563.40 5.10 9.00

Texas D- 578.60 6.00 3.60

Calif A- 593.40 6.80 3.70

Del C 599.00 3.20 1.90

Ill B+ 620.70 7.50 4.90

Nevada D 637.50 8.30 5.00

Louis F 662.30 13.20 7.10

Tenn D+ 716.90 7.20 4.20

N Mex D+ 739.50 8.20 4.80

Mland A 769.80 9.40 5.40

Florida D+ 770.20 5.50 2.70

S Car C- 822.00 7.30 3.90

Sorry, best I can do.