[marktwain]

2. The states with the highest murder rates are ALL “Blue” states. My neighborhood is “Red” and I don’t think we’ve ever had a murder (70 years).

Be nice if it were true, but it is not.

Here are the top 10 states for murder in the United States:

Louisiana,Missouri,Nevada,Maryland,Arkansas,Alabama,Mississippi,Illinois,South Carolina, Tennessee.

Here is the link to the site. They get the data from the FBI UCR.

The most important factor is what percentage of the population is black, or in Alaska, native.

[marktwain]

Sorry. Alaska should be in there at #6.