Counties that are Republican strongholds have higher death-rates from Covid, Suicide and Opioid Overdoses AND they earn the lowest wages in the state.

Republican votes are too broad to narrow down for some of these. Luulanlau county for example has a reservation on it. Very low income, high crime, and lots of drug abuse. Same goes for high suicides and high covid deaths due to not managing resources, skewing results. It may not be the general population of a place contributing to these scores.

I guess even though I vote blue, these statistics can be painted a number of ways, especially when its narrowed down to something as republican votes. Thats roughly 45%-55% of any U.S. population and a variety of things can influence economic and socioeconomic variabilities. We need to stop relying so much on very broad and hatful definitions which devide us, and instead dive into the deeper problems of why things are happening.

Its childish to post results like this because it doesnt necessarily prove that a red voting county leads to said result. Blue leaning socialist I.E. Venezuela sees much more extrapolated negative numbers on all of these topics per capita, as well as higher violent crime. I know thats a little off topic, but us bluies have been moving more towards expermintation with socialistic ideals.

My point is that instead of blaming eachother for our problems, and instead of just posting some maybe, maybe not real stats, and instead of trying to devide people more, we must work together and through the hate. Were all human and we should act like it.

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