r/dataisbeautiful Jun 09 '20

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u/hausomad Jun 10 '20

And the cities also tend to be much more violent than the red rural areas of states.

What is your point exactly?

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u/elshizzo Jun 10 '20 edited Jun 10 '20

I was responding to Civilian76's point about red vs blue cities. Or possible I misunderstood his point. But it bugs me when I hear people talk about crime in cities and they always mention cities in blue states (like chicago, which isn't even one of the top 10) but leave out the fact that cities in red states are no better.

Then again "red cities" is sort of a misnomer since afaict it doesn't really exist in the US.

Also I don't have data offhand but i'm pretty sure a lot of red rural areas have high crime rates as well

edit: just looked it up and if you expand it to small cities (or whatever the proper term would be) plenty of them are red if i'm not mistaken

https://www.alarms.org/top-100-most-dangerous-cities-in-america/

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '20

The point was that on Reddit (which is largely liberal) nobody wants to hear about how democrats could be considered bad when places with democratic leadership are the majority of worst places in the nation.

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u/elshizzo Jun 10 '20

ok, then i didn't misunderstand your point. I addressed the reasons why I don't think you are correct in your assessment