Want to compare to California and what the democrats have done here? LOL fag
Want to compare the amount of $$$ California has to pay in to keep red states and Republican policies afloat? LOL bitch.
But here you go with something to start with that reflect "policies" :
In U.S. state rankings, Republican-leaning ("red") states frequently rank highest in several specific public health, economic, and demographic metrics according to data from agencies like the U.S. Census Bureau and the CDC:
• Poverty Rates: According to the U.S. Census Bureau, red states make up the majority of the states with the highest poverty rates in the country, led by states such as Mississippi, Louisiana, West Virginia, and Arkansas.
• Obesity Rates: Public health data consistently shows that the states with the highest adult obesity rates are predominantly Republican-leaning, with states like West Virginia frequently ranking at the top.
• Per Capita Murder/Violence Rates: Multiple congressional and statistical analyses indicate that red states, on average, have experienced higher per capita homicide and violent crime rates than blue states over recent decades, though researchers and commentators debate the extent to which this correlates with urban versus rural breakdowns or state-level policy factors
• Violent Crime and Drug Deaths: Several Southern and red-leaning states record high per capita violent crime rates and elevated drug/opioid mortality rates (such as Tennessee ranking high in drug-related deaths and violent crime indexes)
• Teen pregnancy : Red states overwhelmingly have the highest teen birth rates. According to the KFF State Health Facts tracking of CDC data, the states with the highest birth rates among women ages 15–19 are heavily concentrated in the South and Midwest
Red states have the highest rates of adult diabetes in the country.
• Diabetes : According to data from the CDC’s Diabetes Surveillance System, the geographic cluster known as the "Diabetes Belt" is situated almost entirely in the conservative American South and Appalachia. West Virginia, Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama, and Arkansas lead the nation, with adult diabetes prevalence reaching 13% to 15% or higher. Because Type 2 diabetes is heavily linked to metabolic health, these rankings directly mirror the state-level poverty and obesity metrics where red states also rank the highest
• Healthcare Access and Outcomes: Red states frequently feature higher rates of uninsured residents, higher infant and maternal mortality rates, and lower counts of primary care physicians per capita (with states like Texas and several Southern states ranking near or at the bottom).
• Poverty and Socioeconomic Indicators: Multiple analyses of state economies indicate that a large proportion of states with the highest poverty rates, lower median household incomes, and lower educational attainment or college graduation rates are Republican-led, particularly across the Deep South and Appalachia (including Mississippi, Arkansas, Alabama, and Louisiana)
• Worker Protections and Civil Rights / Inclusiveness: Quality-of-life indexes that factor in state-level labor protections, reproductive access, and legal protections or restrictions regarding LGBTQ+ individuals consistently rank red states lower due to conservative legislative actions on bathroom access, anti-discrimination ordinances, and curriculum restrictions
