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Where in the United States would you consider yourself the safest? Someplace where there were no hurricanes, no floods, no eathquakes, no tornados, no major blizzards, no black or Hispanic gangs, no black flash mobs, low chance of becoming a murder statistic, no muslim terrorists, insignificant traffic accidents, hidden from government murderers, relatively low chance of coming in contact with deadly bacterial or viral diseases,.......etc. What would be your choice? Is there such a place still left in the US? I'll give you mine later.

The Safest State 2007 rankings are simply the reverse order of the Most Dangerous State rankings. The rankings are determined by the same four step process. First, rates for six crime categories ? murder, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary and motor vehicle theft ? are plugged into a formula that measures how a state compares to the national average for a given crime category. Second, the outcome of this equation is then multiplied by a weight assigned to each crime category. For this year?s award, we again gave each crime category equal weight. Thus state comparisons are based purely on...