People Living in Blue States generally Make More Money, live around Less Poverty and Less Violent Crime, Less Incarceration

I’m sure there’s a study available somewhere that links crime and incarceration to wealth inequality.

Also shoutout to both New Mexico and New Hampshire for being delinquent counter examples.

I’m not making a political statement myself, but this appears to support what my conservative, red-state friends and colleagues always say about why people vote for Republicans/Trump. They view the Democrats as the party of the wealthy and middle/upper-middle class. And based on this data, that appears to be the case.

Obviously, while the Democratic party is pretty much full-center at this point, and pro-corporation itself, the GOP’s corporate support and 1% support are both next-level, and its actual support of poor people is pretty bad. But conservatives I know (or GOP loyalists) love, love, love this sort of data as they can claim it explains why red states are so red, and so supportive of the GOP. (You can debate with them if you want, I’m not going there!)

That aside, what are some other theories for this?

* Are liberal people more likely to become middle- and upper-middle class?
* Are upper-middle class people more likely to be liberal?
* Are liberal people more likely to move to big cities where there are higher-paying jobs?
* Are people who move to big cities, where there are more high-paying jobs, more likely to become liberal by virtue of living in a big city?

Any thoughts?

(I don’t think violent crime should be linked to Democrat or Republican states, that’s linked to poverty, so it’s a step removed, at least. And aside from variable enforcement of drug laws, more incarceration is the result of more violent crime, so at least two steps removed. But I’d be interested in seeing incarceration rates for nonviolent, noneconomic drug crimes in states with modernized drug laws vs. tradiational, strict states.)