Those figures differ quite a bit from what this source reports.
Kentucky is said to get 46% of its state funding from federal grants, with New York and Pennsylvania not that far behind at 39%. California, Massachusetts, North Dakota, Hawaii and Virginia are well behind in the percentage of state funding from federal sources, while the three top beneficiaries are Louisiana, Alaska and Arizona.
The site I linked uses (my bold):
Rankings account for political affiliation, the net benefits individuals and organizations in the state receive, state government revenue from federal sources and GDP per capita.
The site you link is strictly Federal Grants to states.
So I’d expect some discrepancy.
Highest crime rate states:
Seems like a fairly even distribution, especially based upon size.
From CT, I can get through Massachusetts and New Hampshire and into Maine before I need to fuel up. I don’t usually because I typically stop for lunch along the way, but I could. I suppose I might be able to take a somewhat longer route and go through Rhode Island as well.
Madmonk said violent crime, your list purports to be crime. This list for violent crime is from https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/rankings/crime-and-corrections/public-safety/violent-crime-rate?sort=rank-desc
New Mexico Blue
Alaska Red
Arkansas Red
Louisiana Red
Tennesee Red
California Blue
Colorado Blue
South Carolina Red
Missouri Red
Michigan Purple
does seem tilted red
What’s your source for this?
Here are a couple about red state violent crime.
I’m not even sure what a Red or Blue state is.
I live in Arizona. The state went for Trump this year.
But, we have two Democratic senators.
The Governor is a Democrat.
The Attorney General is a Democrat.
The state legislature is barely Republican.
Our we a Red state, or a Purple state, like most?
There are not really blue states. I live in Oregon, a reliably blue state when voting in the Electoral College, but it is very red outside of the urban areas. The benefits are very high taxes and little results for those taxes.
I live in Missouri, my son and his family are in Illinois. My son has a special needs daughter and the early childhood programs for her are much better than they’d find even in St. Louis or KC.
That’s pretty much true for any social service/safety net program in Missouri.
I think that’s the general answer to the OP: If, for any reason, you need extra government support, you’ll get more in a blue state.
I can refer to my husband in conversation and expect not to get a shocked reaction in my blue state (California).
I don’t think I can express how much that means to me. I spent a very long time hiding who I am (sometimes not very successfully, sometimes without needing to) and it’s still hard for me to say those words “my husband” to someone for the first time. I don’t think I would be able to live in a place where I have to hide again, which is how I picture most red areas.
Oregon has had a state health care program for a long time. Not perfect, but it’s helped many people. /retired Oregon practitioner
I’m jealous! My employer requires me to use-or-lose my vacation time each year. If I don’t use it all, I think the way it works is I accrue that much LESS the following year. I still get the full x weeks of vacation the following year, just not “x plus last year’s leftover”.
A couple of times, I’ve been given permission to use some of that leftover time, but they really don’t like to do that, as we’re supposed to manage our time to avoid it. Never mind they complain about everyone’s billable hours plummeting in November and December; it’s their own damn fault. The one year I carried over 2 weeks (I get 5 a year) was when I started a major new project and we were slammed, the last half of the year.
Now, I could use my full year’s allowance in the first month of the year, if I wanted - but if I quit in February, they’d dock me for the unearned vacation. If I had some left over from the previous year, I think they might not dock me for that part - but I have not tested this. I do know that if I quit partway through the year and have NOT used my earned vacation, they’d pay me for the unused part - e.g. if I took no time off, then quite June 30, I’d get 2.5 weeks of vacation pay.
Re the question in the OP: my daughter was able to get Medicaid and SNAP (pittance that it is) more easily than she could have in a redder state. Hourly wages are a titch higher for minimum-wage-type jobs, as well.
There’s a wonderfully self-indulgent article in the Boston Globe about people moving away from Massachusetts to (mostly) red states and missing the comforts of home, from snow blanketing the Back Bay to transit options to progressive politics. You can’t access quality medical care if you leave Boston for Florida (apparently there’s a dire shortage of doctors, hospitals and specialty clinics in the Sunshine State - who knew?). And one must be careful not to get stuck in a food desert.
And they get nostalgic for Massholes.
It does seem that there’s a relative shortage of health care professionals in basically all of Florida (Monroe country excluded) compared to Mass. and to Boston in particular.
Charts for dental care are similar and, perhaps unsurprisingly, especially bad for mental health professionals.
There are deficiencies in rural health care in many places, blue states included.
Massachusetts seems to have its own problems when it comes to primary care availability.
Right but the linked chart is nationwide by county, not rural specific.
There are blue states with serious access issues in their counties but Massachusetts isn’t showing that and especially not Boston. Seems reasonable that a Boston transplant to FL would notice the difference.
you can get anything alcoholic delivered in STL
you forgot that with Amtrak you can travel the entire West Coast up to Canada
My father, a Massachusetts doctor, had very unflattering things to say about the quality of doctors in Florida. I gather quacks were attracted to the retires… But maybe that was just his prejudice.
Anyway, blue states tend to have higher taxes, better government services, more public transit, higher minimum wages, higher wages and higher cost of living in general, and are generally easier places to be if you don’t “fit in”. At least, i think it’s easier to be Jewish or Queer in blue states.