I’m too lazy and do not care enough but highly doubt the life expectancy in blue states is 2yrs longer comparing apples to apples.
Generally speaking in the modern era, inner city pollution offsets proximity to state of the art of medical care in life expectancy, resulting in a wash.
I suspect that is a completely fraudulent statistic.
fwiw I’ve asked leftists for decades about why folks are fleeing instead of stampeding to the wonderfulness of big govt liberal socialism to no avail.
The answers were always anything but economic. The moving companies have since surveyed folks and the top two answers were jobs, economic opportunities. I think Krugman still goes with AC and retirees.
I don’t doubt the life expectancy stat. I would attribute it to three things:
1) Violence and malaise in the Democrat-run cities which reside in red states (e.g. Memphis)
2) Obesity being generally more common in red states, probably related to lower incomes
3) Obesity being particularly prevalent in minorities, of whom there are more in the red states
“I’m too lazy and do not care enough but highly doubt the life expectancy in blue states is 2yrs longer comparing apples to apples.”
I don’t know about that.
There’s a lot of people who are obesely overweight and smokers in my red state of Tennessee.
I’m talking about young people who should be in the prime of life who are waddling through malls with their equally morbese children with double chins.
When I was young we worked or played
outdoors, burning off those calories and building muscles!
But these are lifestyle choices, not government.