Register to vote: https://vote.gov

Contact your reps:

Senate: https://www.senate.gov/senators/senators-contact.htm?Class=1

House of Representatives: https://contactrepresentatives.org/

Data File: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vREIDxphExg4OBkaVy5nbS_WNvRXaVgcRZAii4Rx0WRuztG_AG0nUujDmiISySOFmozNibVHeXeUu4K/pub?output=csv

Bibliography: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vQb_jZOaE4JIYfeqWFL0gg_h2n_IvygROZhKxzxQ8lrc18sdOW40UC4A1fG_C7sKVRn3Ve_E5Do3NLk/pub?output=csv

This is a starting point, a snapshot in time. As the year progresses, I will be adding more longitudinal data and creating an online Governance Dashboard. If anyone has any studies like this, please share. It seems like I’m the only one doing a study like this.

I have more variables than this already pulled, but I feel as though, these variables give the best picture of performance. All of the variables shown are, at minimum, highly moderately correlated with each another.

How do i define political control?:

I look at the Governor and State Senate & State House majority to determine which party is in control. To be fully Democratic or Republican controlled, the Governor, State Senate, and State House all must be one party otherwise, I categorize the state as Mixed control.

Graphs made by ChatGPT

by sillychillly

7 comments

  1. This is really interesting, thanks. I’m pretty sure the same trend exists for things like school test scores, pollution levels, cancer rates, access to preventative medicine, etc.

    Really heartbreaking stuff.

  3. If you don’t arrest or prosecute, that leads to a low crime rate. Correct?

  4. The level of poverty depends on which measure is used. When factors other than income (such as housing and cost of living) are included the picture changes.

    >More than a decade ago, those who study poverty persuaded the Census Bureau to adopt a more realistic method of gauging poverty, one that takes into account differentials of living costs and other factors.
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    >Nationally, the new supplemental rate is 9.8% but once again California tops the states at 13.2 percent, more than a third higher than the national rate.

    [https://calmatters.org/commentary/2023/09/california-poverty-rate/](https://calmatters.org/commentary/2023/09/california-poverty-rate/)

  5. Bahahahahahaha!!! I can’t think of a blue state that isn’t a screwed up disaster.

    Keep in mind ‘correlation’ and ‘causation’ are not the same thing.

  6. Lower violent crime and incarceration rate because most criminals are not being prosecuted and those that are will receive reduced charges (non-violent) and lighter sentences. Just so these numbers will look good. But are communities safer? Judging by the exodus from these states, the answer is an overwhelming, no.

  7. This is more of a causation vs correlation situation.

    There are plenty of holes in making a direct causality.

    Cities with highest per capita homelessness are also dem run. (LA, NY, San Fran, etc)

    Often the same with homicide, violent crime, etc.

    And yeah, higher populations have more opportunities and higher costs of living which all equate to higher incomes. $80k/year in San Francisco isn’t the same as $80k in Hebron Nebraska

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