Why do these European charts omit the UK?
We left the EU, not the bloody continent.
The data is provided by Eurostat. An EU organisation, they are not going to fund numbers for a country not in the EU anymore (some other countries might still join for various reasons.)
If they hold that stance, the graph should not use ‘Europe’ when they essentially mean ‘EU member nations’, especially if they omit the UK for the reasons you state as the UK is a part of Europe.
Look at “them there” red states. Life is cheap south of the Mason Dixon Line.
What’s up with New Hampshire that it’s on par with the EU countries?
NH has the lowest poverty rate of all the states. Plus it’s generally cold and rural so people are more isolated and chill.
Authright (PCM) has an answer but I won’t repeat it here
Why not? Are you some sorta coward? I’ll say it: yeah, fascists think a whiter population leads to reduced crime rates. That’s because fascists are rubes and imbeciles with such a stunted worldview that they’re incapable of considering the effects of any other socio-economic factors such as education, distribution of wealth, etc.
Why is Mississipi not first on this list too? Louisiana seems off the charts. Any explanation for that?
Have you been to Louisiana?
I spent a good bit of time growing up there. This does not surprise me.
Also, New Orleans was like, murder capital of the world per capita at one point in time.
But generally, the reasons are the obvious ones: Extreme bigotry, racism, and most importantly, some of the worst poverty in the world for any first world country is there. Poverty creates violence. It’s just how humans/the world work. When you don’t have enough/can’t get a job through legal means to survive, you turn to crime.
Missouri is actually #1 if you count all the copicides.
Ah yes, the mostly aptly named state, misery.
Imagine how bad it would be if Americans didn’t have guns to defend themselves.
Latvia is the Louisiana of Europe
Alternatively, Louisiana is the Latvia of the United States. But with fewer social programs.
UK isn’t included for some reason, but in 2020 it was 1.00.
I eanted to say “Duh brexit” but as switzerland is also included and some other non-eu states…
Whoo!! Better than Latvia!
Louisianians be like “Chicago tho amirite”
“We’ve tried nothing and we’re all out of ideas!”
“Surely not!” And then with a heavy sigh, I remembered Baltimore.
Same thing happened to me 😔
What’s the deal with Louisiana?
Corruption, poor education, overpowered oil/gas lobby, for-profit prison system that encourages recidivism
And that’s just scratching the surface
outside of NO, the region is reletively low on education, poverty ridden and low opportunity. its the trio that makes high homicide rate.
reletively low on education
You don’t say
Oh there’s plenty of people killing each other in the city too.
Hot and humid all the time.
I remember reading something while ago that did link high temperatures with higher rates of things like violence. Essentially, being hot all the damn time makes everyone’s baseline level of irritability higher and so things escalate more often. Seems a bit counter-intuitive though if we all came from Africa so I’m not sure how true it ultimately is.
In Europe the stereotype is definitely that “blood gets warmer” the more south you go. It certainly holds a bit of truth in my experience, the attitudes in Marseille or Rome are much more spicy than in Berlin, Amsterdam etc.
Wasn’t that where true detective season 1 was based in? Says all you need to know.
Get killed… Louisiana fast
Think 15 milly
There’s some bad boujee downindatbayou.
Alabama: “We aren’t Mississippi!”
Guess they can include a few others too.
