https://www.neighborhoodscout.com/tx/dallas/crime
8.64 violent crimes / 1000 residents
https://www.neighborhoodscout.com/ca/san-francisco/crime
5.39 violent crimes / 1000 residents
Ok what does that have to do with anything? I’m not using fbi statistics
At publishing time, state officials in Texas were willing to discuss accepting San Francisco as a new city with the condition that it stop being super gay.
Lol. I’d put them on drug probation instead.
On a more serious note, it is maddening that the most naturally beautiful places (California, Oregon and Washington) are going down the sink thanks to liberal politics.
Leftists tend to be more artsy than conservatives, and care more about aesthetics. They’re more likely to move somewhere just for its natural beauty, and once the population reaches a threshold, there’s a snowball effect. You can see the same effect inland too, in Denver, Jackson, Flagstaff, and Moab.
Do you have a source for that? I know people who are liberal rate as “happier”, but idk about more artsy. Also, Idaho and Utah are just two states that are red and known for their sights. You could argue conservatives are more inclined towards natural beauty since they lean towards living away from cities and in rural areas while the largest, population dense concrete jungles are liberal.
I don’t have a source — it’s just an observation based on my personal experience. The fine art world, musicians, and the entertainment industry lean left. You can find conservative painters, bands, and movies, but the default disposition for creatives is leftism. It’s a personality thing. Creatives think outside the box, and push boundaries. Given the choice between something traditional and something radically new, creatives are apt to choose something radically new. So there’s a correlation between the kind of aesthetic backdrop that might inspire a painting and the kind of people who tend to enjoy breaking tradition.
I’ve never heard that leftists rate as happier, and tbh that surprises me. My experience is that religious folks tend to be happier, and there are more religious folks on the Right.
With regards to urban versus rural, you have a good point. But cities along the West Coast and the inland places I mentioned became urban due to a confluence of people moving to a beautiful place.
If you have a rural town with a shockingly beautiful backdrop, before long there’ll be oil painters, then art galleries, then hipster coffee shops, then yoga studios, and then the local socialist party headquarters. That’s a bit hyperbolic, but there’s some truth to it.