For years Americans have been relocating from blue states to red states in search of jobs and affordable housing.
The heavy-handed lockdown policies of governors in some blue states will no doubt accelerate this trend.
In all fairness, many blue states are more urbanized and population density plays a major role in spreading the virus, but this fails to explain why people already infected with coronavirus are dying at a higher rate in many of these states.
When states are sorted in order of deaths per 1,000 cases, an important pattern becomes evident: Nursing homes in five of the seven worst affected states were ordered or paid to take in recovering COVID-19 patients.
Another pattern evident in Table 2 is that nearly all states with more than 60 deaths per 1,000 cases scored low on fiscal health in 2018.
The procrustean lockdown policies of governors in most blue states puts on full display their dismissive attitude towards blue-collar jobs.
The 12 most progressive states are highlighted in blue.
The heavy-handed lockdown policies of governors in some blue states will no doubt accelerate this trend.
In all fairness, many blue states are more urbanized and population density plays a major role in spreading the virus, but this fails to explain why people already infected with coronavirus are dying at a higher rate in many of these states.
When states are sorted in order of deaths per 1,000 cases, an important pattern becomes evident: Nursing homes in five of the seven worst affected states were ordered or paid to take in recovering COVID-19 patients.
Another pattern evident in Table 2 is that nearly all states with more than 60 deaths per 1,000 cases scored low on fiscal health in 2018.
The procrustean lockdown policies of governors in most blue states puts on full display their dismissive attitude towards blue-collar jobs.
The 12 most progressive states are highlighted in blue.
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