The two plots below exhibit clear linear trends:


So life in the US is safest and best in the godless, wealthy, highest educated, gun rejecting NE.
Interesting.
Marx appears to have been wrong. Religion is not the opiate of the masses, rather it is the crystal meth of the masses.
Never criticize anyone until you've walked several kilometres in their shoes.
Because
1. You're now several kilometres away; and
2. You've got their shoes.