Why do MAGA assume all blue cities are violent crime ridden hell scapes?

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Anonymous wrote:Cuz it's tiresome to see shampoo and candy and bars of soap locked behind plastic cages at CVS, or to see drug needles on the ground, or have fear of walking in the city at night.

I’m more comfortable walking in midtown Manhattan than I am some desolate country road where I’m in big trouble if a pick up truck stops next to me and tells me to get in.

Also - Based on the latest data, Tennessee has a significantly higher rate of gun deaths per capita than New York. For 2023, the total age-adjusted gun death rate in Tennessee was 22.0 per 100,000 residents, while New York's was 4.7 per 100,000. That’s a huge difference.

Compare two cities - As of 2024, the gun death rate in Jackson, Mississippi, was drastically higher than in Boston, Massachusetts. Data shows that Jackson had the highest per-capita homicide rate in the U.S. in 2024, while Boston's homicide rate was at a near-historic low.

Compare a red state and a blue state on the safety of women regarding the most serious assault - Massachusetts rape rate: For 2023, the rape rate was 27.3 per 100,000 people. This rate of violence against women in Massachusetts is lower than the U.S. national average.

Texas rape rate: For 2023, the rate was 49.5 per 100,000 people, placing Texas among the highest rates of violence against women in the country.


I am so sick of the stupidest people in our country buying this bull that Trump sells. Blue states are safer including their cities. How much taxpayer money was spent on the dog and pony show that Trump put on in Portland, DC, Chicago?

And which party controls Jackson, Mississippi?

It brings me no pleasure to point out that all the crime stuff is correlated to the size of the African-American population, not to the party in charge. Furthermore, pro-crime democrat district attorneys and judges obstruct the proper administration of justice in these high crime areas.

If Republicans had a way to reduce crime in cities like Jackson they would present that solution to voters, run for office and win. Why hasn't that happened?

+1 Why isn’t Trump sending troops into the violent hellholes of Jackson, Birmingham, and St. Louis?

During the last decade, rural counties had a per-capita murder rate 37% higher than urban counties. It isn’t the cities themselves that cause red state crime. It’s poverty, lax gun laws, chronic underinvestment in schools and mental health care, and decades of Republican punitive justice/mass incarceration policies that don’t work and don’t address the root cause.

Why are all these “woke” Dems always drawing attention to how dangerous cities are with predominantly AA populations? Isn’t that called a dog whistle?

Looks like you answered the dog whistle. PP didn’t say a word about race or cite it as a reason for crime. You, however, immediately leaped to race. Says a lot about you.

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Anonymous wrote:Cuz it's tiresome to see shampoo and candy and bars of soap locked behind plastic cages at CVS, or to see drug needles on the ground, or have fear of walking in the city at night.

I’m more comfortable walking in midtown Manhattan than I am some desolate country road where I’m in big trouble if a pick up truck stops next to me and tells me to get in.

Also - Based on the latest data, Tennessee has a significantly higher rate of gun deaths per capita than New York. For 2023, the total age-adjusted gun death rate in Tennessee was 22.0 per 100,000 residents, while New York's was 4.7 per 100,000. That’s a huge difference.

Compare two cities - As of 2024, the gun death rate in Jackson, Mississippi, was drastically higher than in Boston, Massachusetts. Data shows that Jackson had the highest per-capita homicide rate in the U.S. in 2024, while Boston's homicide rate was at a near-historic low.

Compare a red state and a blue state on the safety of women regarding the most serious assault - Massachusetts rape rate: For 2023, the rape rate was 27.3 per 100,000 people. This rate of violence against women in Massachusetts is lower than the U.S. national average.

Texas rape rate: For 2023, the rate was 49.5 per 100,000 people, placing Texas among the highest rates of violence against women in the country.


I am so sick of the stupidest people in our country buying this bull that Trump sells. Blue states are safer including their cities. How much taxpayer money was spent on the dog and pony show that Trump put on in Portland, DC, Chicago?

And which party controls Jackson, Mississippi?

It brings me no pleasure to point out that all the crime stuff is correlated to the size of the African-American population, not to the party in charge. Furthermore, pro-crime democrat district attorneys and judges obstruct the proper administration of justice in these high crime areas.

If Republicans had a way to reduce crime in cities like Jackson they would present that solution to voters, run for office and win. Why hasn't that happened?

+1 Why isn’t Trump sending troops into the violent hellholes of Jackson, Birmingham, and St. Louis?

During the last decade, rural counties had a per-capita murder rate 37% higher than urban counties. It isn’t the cities themselves that cause red state crime. It’s poverty, lax gun laws, chronic underinvestment in schools and mental health care, and decades of Republican punitive justice/mass incarceration policies that don’t work and don’t address the root cause.

There are people being carjacked in DC neighborhoods where townhomes cost $1M+. Please show me a comparable rural area that’s that affluent where you have the same murder rate and crime problem in general.

Can you say the same for sex offender stats? Recently moved to a rural area with $1M+ homes only to have a sex offender who had served 20 years for multiple home invasions and rapes in Virginia move in. Less than a year later he was found stalking/following a teenager from the store. So much for rural safety.

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Anonymous wrote:Extended family member posts about this a lot ‘oh the crime in LA!!’ Or SF, NYC etc.

Meanwhile the crime rate in some of these cities is the lowest in years.

Is it just that they’re watching news max or Fox all day long?

The answer to your question is answered by your question - they vote blue.

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Anonymous wrote:Back on topic, but yes blue cities have way more violence than the small towns MAGA may be more accustomed to. Part of it is that when you live in a city, you know where and when not to be. A tourist may stumble into something, as the line between good and not-good can be a block thin in DC. The smug DC residents here probably don't ride the X2, or whatever its called now, after midnight for instance.

You don't have to be aware of hyper-local distinctions when you're in some MAGA town, so that's why they judge the whole city by its worst parts.

No, you have to be aware of KKKletus and his tribe looking out for strangers to "take care of"

Your head is filled with brainrot propaganda fantasies churned out by Hollywood. Rural Karens may hector outsiders from time to time but they don't rob/murder/rape like what happens in the inner cities.

We moved from a city to a rural area and feel less safe in some ways. While we don’t worry about crime walking down the streets and don’t feel like we are in imminent danger, some dicey things have occurred. I’ve had a neighbor enter our yard and make threats with an chainsaw and our kid’s principal was just threatened with violence by parents and called the n word simply over a holiday party. The racial threats are real here and we are only in southern MD. It’s a notch above Karen heckling

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Anonymous wrote:Cuz it's tiresome to see shampoo and candy and bars of soap locked behind plastic cages at CVS, or to see drug needles on the ground, or have fear of walking in the city at night.

I’m more comfortable walking in midtown Manhattan than I am some desolate country road where I’m in big trouble if a pick up truck stops next to me and tells me to get in.

Also - Based on the latest data, Tennessee has a significantly higher rate of gun deaths per capita than New York. For 2023, the total age-adjusted gun death rate in Tennessee was 22.0 per 100,000 residents, while New York's was 4.7 per 100,000. That’s a huge difference.

Compare two cities - As of 2024, the gun death rate in Jackson, Mississippi, was drastically higher than in Boston, Massachusetts. Data shows that Jackson had the highest per-capita homicide rate in the U.S. in 2024, while Boston's homicide rate was at a near-historic low.

Compare a red state and a blue state on the safety of women regarding the most serious assault - Massachusetts rape rate: For 2023, the rape rate was 27.3 per 100,000 people. This rate of violence against women in Massachusetts is lower than the U.S. national average.

Texas rape rate: For 2023, the rate was 49.5 per 100,000 people, placing Texas among the highest rates of violence against women in the country.


I am so sick of the stupidest people in our country buying this bull that Trump sells. Blue states are safer including their cities. How much taxpayer money was spent on the dog and pony show that Trump put on in Portland, DC, Chicago?

And which party controls Jackson, Mississippi?

It brings me no pleasure to point out that all the crime stuff is correlated to the size of the African-American population, not to the party in charge. Furthermore, pro-crime democrat district attorneys and judges obstruct the proper administration of justice in these high crime areas.

If Republicans had a way to reduce crime in cities like Jackson they would present that solution to voters, run for office and win. Why hasn't that happened?

+1 Why isn’t Trump sending troops into the violent hellholes of Jackson, Birmingham, and St. Louis?

During the last decade, rural counties had a per-capita murder rate 37% higher than urban counties. It isn’t the cities themselves that cause red state crime. It’s poverty, lax gun laws, chronic underinvestment in schools and mental health care, and decades of Republican punitive justice/mass incarceration policies that don’t work and don’t address the root cause.

There are people being carjacked in DC neighborhoods where townhomes cost $1M+. Please show me a comparable rural area that’s that affluent where you have the same murder rate and crime problem in general.

Can you say the same for sex offender stats? Recently moved to a rural area with $1M+ homes only to have a sex offender who had served 20 years for multiple home invasions and rapes in Virginia move in. Less than a year later he was found stalking/following a teenager from the store. So much for rural safety.

Personal anecdotes? Give me police stats for the carjacking numbers in your tony rural area.

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Magas thinks all blue cities are hell scapes because the majority of Maga red states are high crime states.

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Is this really a question? It's because they're blue. There is constant talk about how bad they are and people believe it. I was just in Chicago and it seemed prosperous, busy and peaceful to me.

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Anonymous wrote:No, we assume nothing.

Our “lived experiences” have informed our decision to live and travel elsewhere.

You do you boo. I choose to live far away from density, subsidized housing, weed odors from neighbors, and mentally unstable hobos outside of my door.

To each their own.

Wow that’s quite an inaccurate picture.

You do know that drug use and OD rates are higher in rural populations, right?

Rural areas are much safer. Most American cities have large neighborhoods that are "sundown towns" where no one is willing to step into after dark, no matter how liberal and anti-Maga they are on the internet.

I don’t think you’ve been in a major city in a long time, if ever.

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Anonymous wrote:So we can conclude from this thread that people who live in blue urban areas think they're better, and people who live in red suburban and rural areas think they're better.

Put a different way, people choose to live in areas they think are better.

Stop the presses!

No, what we can conclude is that MAGAs don't know how to read or understand data for themselves and rely on propaganda for their information.

This is exactly it. They don’t understand data or facts.

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Anonymous wrote:Is this really a question? It's because they're blue. There is constant talk about how bad they are and people believe it. I was just in Chicago and it seemed prosperous, busy and peaceful to me.

I live in NYC and same. It’s got such energy and life, jobs, opportunity, etc. But someone thinks because they read about a homeless person on the subway, or CVS locking up items, that it’s a crime filled sewer.

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Anonymous wrote:No, we assume nothing.

Our “lived experiences” have informed our decision to live and travel elsewhere.

You do you boo. I choose to live far away from density, subsidized housing, weed odors from neighbors, and mentally unstable hobos outside of my door.

To each their own.

Wow that’s quite an inaccurate picture.

You do know that drug use and OD rates are higher in rural populations, right?

Rural areas are much safer. Most American cities have large neighborhoods that are "sundown towns" where no one is willing to step into after dark, no matter how liberal and anti-Maga they are on the internet.

I don’t think you’ve been in a major city in a long time, if ever.

They are a troll who doesn't even know what a "sundown town" is.

Red states tend to have the highest crime rates.

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Rural areas are much safer. Most American cities have large neighborhoods that are "sundown towns" where no one is willing to step into after dark, no matter how liberal and anti-Maga they are on the internet.

What an ironic and moronic appropriation of the term.

Learn some history, friend....

A sundown town was an all-white municipality or neighborhood in the United States that used discriminatory laws, intimidation, or violence to exclude non-whites. The term originated from signs that warned people of color to leave the town by sundown, though they also faced exclusion if they tried to stay overnight as a guest. These practices were common before the 1950s but the legacy continues through practices like racial profiling and other forms of systemic exclusion.

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Anonymous wrote:Magas thinks all blue cities are hell scapes because the majority of Maga red states are high crime states.

The high crime in red states occur in the blue cities. For example democrat-controlled hellhole Jackson, Mississippi. If you take out the blue cities the crime is low. Don't swallow propaganda uncritically.

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Rural areas are much safer. Most American cities have large neighborhoods that are "sundown towns" where no one is willing to step into after dark, no matter how liberal and anti-Maga they are on the internet.

What an ironic and moronic appropriation of the term.

Learn some history, friend....

A sundown town was an all-white municipality or neighborhood in the United States that used discriminatory laws, intimidation, or violence to exclude non-whites. The term originated from signs that warned people of color to leave the town by sundown, though they also faced exclusion if they tried to stay overnight as a guest. These practices were common before the 1950s but the legacy continues through practices like racial profiling and other forms of systemic exclusion.

Yes, I'm intentionally using and inverting the term "sundown town" to parody you. I've lived in the rural south too. Rural sundown towns don't exist anymore, a black woman has a very low chance of robbed at gunpoint or raped in a southern hick town.

But a woman has a significant chance to run into mischief in East St. Louis or West Baltimore or parts of Chicago. So which is the *real* sundown town? Use your critical thinking skills to answer my question-- don't just regurgitate your school propaganda!

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Anonymous wrote:No, we assume nothing.

Our “lived experiences” have informed our decision to live and travel elsewhere.

You do you boo. I choose to live far away from density, subsidized housing, weed odors from neighbors, and mentally unstable hobos outside of my door.

To each their own.

Wow that’s quite an inaccurate picture.

You do know that drug use and OD rates are higher in rural populations, right?

Rural areas are much safer. Most American cities have large neighborhoods that are "sundown towns" where no one is willing to step into after dark, no matter how liberal and anti-Maga they are on the internet.

I don’t think you’ve been in a major city in a long time, if ever.

They are a troll who doesn't even know what a "sundown town" is.

Red states tend to have the highest crime rates.

Blue cities in red states have the highest crime rates, like democrat-controlled hellhole Jackson, Misssissippi.

And yes, I'm intentionally using and inverting the term "sundown town" to parody you. I've lived in the rural south too. Rural sundown towns don't exist anymore, a black woman has a very low chance of robbed at gunpoint or raped in a southern hick town.

But a woman has a significant chance to run into mischief in East St. Louis or West Baltimore or parts of Chicago. So which is the *real* sundown town? Use your critical thinking skills to answer my question-- don't just regurgitate your school propaganda!