Red states lead in rape - Tell Santorum

[GeorgeBushytail]

After reading of Santorum's liberalism-rape assertion ( http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2005/07/13/santorum_resolute_on_boston_rebuke/ )
I did a little research at the Bureau of Justice Statistics:
http://bjsdata.ojp.usdoj.gov/dataonline/Search/Crime/State/TrendsInOneVar.cfm

Of the top 20 states in per capita rapes, 16 are red states.

caveat - I am not a statistician.

Here is a poorly formatted table:
State Rapes per 100,000 (r)ed/(b)lue state

Alaska 79.4 r
New Mexico 55.4 r
Michigan 53.4 b
South Carolina 47.7 r
South Dakota 47.4 r
Colorado 45.8 r
Minnesota 45.3 b
Washington 45 b
Oklahoma 45 r
Delaware 44.3 b
Nevada 42.7 r
Ohio 42.1 r
Utah 40.7 r
Florida 40.4 r
Tennessee 39.5 r
Mississippi 39.2 r
Texas 39.1 r
Kansas 38.1 r
Alabama 37.1 r
Idaho 37.1 r
Rhode Island 36.9 b
Oregon 35.2 b
New Hampshire 35 b
Illinois 34.1 b
Lousiana 34.1 r
Pennsylvania 30.2 b
Hawaii 29.9 b
Indiana 29.9 r
Wyoming 29.7 r
Arizona 29.5 r
Maine 29.1 b
California 29 b
Arkansas 27.8 r
Massachusetts 27.6 b
Iowa 27.1 r
Nebraska 26.8 r
Kentucky 26.6 r
North Carolina 26.4 r
Montana 26.1 r
Missouri 25.8 r
North Dakota 25.7 r
Virginia 25.2 r
Maryland 25.1 b
Georgia 24.6 r
Wisconsin 22.7 b
Connecticut 21.1 b
Vermont 20.4 b
New York 20.3 b
West Virginia 18.2 r
New Jersey 15.7 b

[Beaver Tail]

1. Send these stats to a Dem

and push this issue

[cthrumatrix]

2. but but they have "moral values"...

[Wetzelbill]

3. McCain's quote about Santorum in that article is hilarious

''I think he probably has written off Massachusetts," said Senator John McCain, an Arizona Republican who is also a potential 2008 contender.

:rofl:

[joanski0]

4. Ted Kennedy kicked Santorum's butt

about this on the Senate Floor this morning. He mentioned three Republican Senators who attended schools in Mass. One was Frist, one was Bob Dole. Kennedy said that Mass. had the lowest divorce rate in the Nation. At the end of Kennedy's rant, he demanded that Santorum apologize to the people of Massachusetts.

[Ian David]

5. For more information along similar lines

go to:

http://www.FuckTheSouth.com

[thereismore]

6. Well, not so fast.

If you average 3 years (2000-2002), you will find 4 out of top 6 states are blue. One of the 2 remaining "red" states is NM, which should actually be blue, and the other is Alaska.

[chicaloca]

9. one thing to keep in mind....

especially with regards to those two red states in the top, is that some places will have low rape rates due to low reporting. It wouldn't surprise me if a place like Alaska doesn't encourage women to report, or if authorities don't record it properly, or if police officers intimidate women out of reporting. So even if dumbshit Santorum were right -- which he's obviously not -- he needs to realize that what he's talking about is reported rapes, not actual rapes. There really isn't any way of KNOWING how many rapes have occurred anywhere, but obviously Craptorum wouldn't think that far ahead.

[bj2110]

7. Also notice the most blue heavy states are at the bottom of that list.

NY, Vermont, Conn, Mass, Calif,

[Hamlette]

8. red states also lead in welfare, teen pregnancy and divorce.

see what conservative values bring?