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LOL . . . upvoted because true.

Nah, they pick them up and recycle them for money

Before Alaska and New Mexico started taking turns taking the crown, for quite a few decades Texas and Florida competed for the top prize and two categories:
1. Capital punishment
2. Capital crimes

Both executed more people than other states, yet their homicide rates continued to top all other states as well.
Florida is a real good one if anybody wants to know future crime & drug trends in America.

But Memphis has a higher violent crime rate than Chicago... Why don't you talk about that?

And having unlimited guns is the world you voted for. Why do you care?

You mean the blue city of Memphis, Tennessee with a black Democrat Mayor?

What else would they be?
Republicans can't run cities. That's why those cities, despite being in Republican-run states, elect Democrats. The few 'cities' that Republicans do run are so small that we call them neighborhoods around here. Literally.

Regardless, Memphis has a higher violent crime rate than Chicago. Still. Same with the rest of the top crime rate cities. Curiously located in Red States.

It gets better. Can you guess how it gets better?

😂 blue cities are free handout zones. Democrats love nothing more than free handouts and surprisingly always vote for them despite the ability to ever make quality of life better. This attracts more free loaders to their environs and the cycle completes itself.

Who’s committing the crimes? Red voters or blue? We all know it’s Democrat voters.

The amount of lives lost in Chicago far surpasses that in Memphis despite a higher crime rate. So where are the most lives being lost Memphis or Chicago? Ya it’s Chicago.

Correct, Blue Cities are the economic engines of America. They provide the funding that funds the rest of the United States, the Red/Welfare States.

The rest of your improvised material is likewise contorted fanfic.

So what I said then?

Perhaps getting someone to help you understand what your meme says?

Nope, per capita blue states receive more money per person than red states. They also receive more federal bail outs which aren’t calculated in the simple math. So not really paying for red states. Any disproportionate amount is going to blue voters in red states. So red voters bail out blue voters.

No, they don't recieve more per person then Red States.

You're taking what states receive from federal funding and dividing that by population numbers and ignoring what that funding is for. It isn't money that's doled out to individual citizens, it's just averaged out per capita. Blue Cities & States have more defense contracts, scientific and medical research, hospitals, VA care... They have more people, they have more economy, and they have more activity courtesy of and benefiting government that goes with it.

But you already knew this from when you got those figures.

They also 'donate' more per capita than they receive back from the government. With Red States, it's the converse.

Basic math. Red States simply have smaller, less diversified. economies. This goes back to the Colonial Era. That was the point of Electoral College and two senators per state - poorer (agricultural) states would have smaller populations and thus less votes, so the EC & 2 senators per were meant to counter their weaker influence.

States don’t pay taxes, so blue states can’t bail out anybody. Businesses and individuals pay taxes based on the tax code, it is not “donated” to the government. The tax code says those who make more are taxed at a higher rate. So you have a state that is expensive to live in requiring higher wages and thus more taxes.

Red voters bail out blue welfare recipients wherever they reside.

Love it when yous talk about some regular aspect of basic life in America like it's a grand secret that you've uncovered.

Then you proceed to contradict yourself.

Red States are welfare states, economically tethered to Blue States/North/Union by nature and also by design since after the Civil War. There's only so much an economy dependent on agriculture (itself heavily subsidized) and Walmart can do to pump a perpetually moribund economy.

I've seen the Tweeter you copied your information off of some weeks ago, perhaps you should look into those little factoids for yourself instead of simply repeating them without understanding what they signify.

Red voters bail out blue voters