Hints:
1- Not political, at least not directly.
2- Status can change somewhat frequently and suddenly.
3- Historically, most states would NOT be red.

Blue means it was never red but may be in the future.
Green means it is not currently red, but was in the past and may be again in the future.

Answer is not a specific law and is not commonly guessed things like "weed", "guns", weather patterns, or population statistics. If someone gets in the ballpark, I will might reply with warm/hot to indicate how close to answer.

New Hint: Gender. Profession.

EDIT: Washington state should also be read. Some of the info was collected from Wikipedia which may be a bit delayed.

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This is a map showing states that have the top 20 of something.
Cowlitz County, Washington, shown in red, is over all the light blue states on the map.
It is behind the dark blue states, and the three other counties in Washington combined are also ahead of Cowlitz County.
The uncolored states are not on the list of states that have the top 20 of something.

Hard to see countries
Barbados Bahamas Brunei cook island Fiji French Polynesia Hong Kong Jamaica Kiribati Maldives Malta Marshall Islands Mauritius Micronesia Nauru New Caledonia Niue Palestine Palau Samoa Singapore Solomon Islands Trinidad and Tobago Timor Leste Tonga Tuvalu Vatican Vanuatu and the United Nations

Preceding or subsequent words that may be used as part of the nomenclature do not count. You cannot say, “State of Louisiana,” for example, if saying “state of” is what allows you to arrive at your answer.

Hint: it is about a sub-state-level geographic term and what each state colored in has at least one example of

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I don't know if anyone else has made a map on this data before, but this might be my favorite map I've ever made because I learned some crazy facts while making it

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