Conservative vs Liberal

Red vs Blue

How America's Great Divide Measures Out

USA Flag Conservative-Lower Taxes Liberal-Higher Taxes
QUALITY OF LIFE CRITERIA & RANKS Alabama Oklahoma Connecticut Minnesota
Most Livable States 2007 42 40 10 2
Per Capita Income 2006 40 37 1 12
Poverty Level 2006 10 7 49 44
Incarceration Rate 2006 5 4 29 49
Best Educated Index 43 39 2 6
Best States For Raising Healthy Kids 35 44 1 18
Best States for Babies 50 33 8 6
Status of Women 49 46 1 5
Public Health Quality 45 47 5 2
% Who Exercised in Past Month 48(70%) 46(72%) 9(81%) 1(84%)
Death Rate
 5 8 46 49
Teen Pregnancy Rate
higher=worse		 41 43 7 6
Infant Mortality 3 7 39 37
Physicians per capita 44 46 5 15
Toothless Residents 4 6 48 50
Employee Heath Coverage 29 43 5 2
% of Mobile Homes in Housing 5 20 38 42
Murder Rate 4 20 32 39
Traffic Fatalities 16 25 47 46
Public Corruption 15 22 31 44
Suicide Death Rate
 24 14 45 38
Fire Death Rate 5 6 35 26
Divorce Rate
% per 1000		 6.2 6.7 2.8 3.6
Total Tax Burden
state, federal & local		 28.0% 27.8% 38.3% 33.9%
Rank 49 50 1 11
Right to Work? yes yes no no
In addition, CT and MN placed on the Top 10 list for states best protecting personal privacy, ranking 2 and 7, respectively.----------------------------------------------------------------

Liberal=Good, Conservative=Bad

So if anyone questions whether life is better in a conservative state with lower taxes or in a liberal one with higher taxes, it can be easily answered using the chart above.

Republican political propaganda talk of smaller, more conservative government and lower taxes as the better way to go will not work. Actually, Oklahoma and other conservative states have already been going down that path for a long time with sadly disappointing results as evidenced above.

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