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  A lot of decent people are in those states, but wealthy indecent people have the power there.
context: Overlay a poverty index and take me to flavortown >
  
  Maternal and infant mortality rates as well! There seems to be a correlation, the more “pro-life” a state is, the higher infant and maternal mortality rates are. >
  
  Thank you! >
  
  “Siri, show me the backwards-ass states where I will never live.” >
  
  Are these what you might call "shithole" states? >
  
  I live in Wisconsin and to be honest it is nothing close to a shithole state. I've traveled and lived in other states but always came back to Wisconsin. Friendly people, a relatively low crime rate, great school systems, strong economy for the most part.
  Unfortunately, we are one of the worse gerrymandered states in the country. I believe we might actually be #1. Republicans are the minority who have exploited our system to seal their power in our state. If democrats could gain their rightful control of Wisconsin back it would be perfect.
  I do find it funny that we are behaving like these other states though because if you look at our metrics we are nothing like the stereotypical "hick state" lol. The reason I am not too worried is that I've spent a lot of time around UWM, UW-Madison, and Marquette. The large majority of students are democratic and love their state. I believe when we are older and start to enter positions of power this will become more apparent. Because, unlike the majority of these "shithole states" Wisconsin has done a good job of educating our youth. >
  
  Wisconsin was surprising to see on here. I've had great times in Wisconsin! Spotted cow is super great, the cheese you don't even need to mention how incredible it is, and House on the Rock!? >
  
  Someone posted in a different thread last week about Wisconsin. It’s completely gerrymandered. Democrats get far more votes in the legislature, but republicans are able to control it. >
  
  Scott Walker and a republican legislature had a right wing think tank come in and redraw the maps in 2010, we're going to be paying for that one for quite a while. The upcoming Supreme Court election is huge. >
  
  Wait, Wisconsin?!?!?!? I thought at least they would be better than that. Wait to quote the voice of god, “Bartlebee, was Wisconsin really that bad?” >
  
  It is due to a law from 1849. The current governor is a Democrat that has claimed he would not enforce the law and has made calls to repeal the law. Naturally this has been opposed by state conservatives. >
  
  Wisconsin Supreme Court election is coming up. If Dems manage flip a seat things could change. >
  
  I'm not sure how our Supreme Court is voted in tbh. But I have never heard of a vote for Supreme Court. I believe they are possibly voted on internally or in very small and locally controlled elections. Just my guess like I said I have never heard of an election I could vote in. >
  
  this election is just another example of how the Supreme Court really fucked Republicans by overturning Roe.
  If the liberal judge wins, the state supreme court can rule the state gerrymanders, that have been in place for over a decade, unconstitutional. Wisconsin would transform from a shithole red state to the actual purple state that it is. 
  But getting people to vote in an April election to fix the state government is hard, because people have generally bought into the Republican propaganda that government is inherently broken and can't be fixed. But getting people to vote in April to restore abortion rights to the state will be MUCH easier. >
  
  So basically all the states with sky-high maternal mortality before the overturning of Roe are about get a lot worse. 
  “Pro-life” 🤡 >
  
  Maternal mortality rates are caused by many factors, mostly including the initial health of the mother. The states with the highest maternal mortality also happen to be the states with the fattest women.  Of course, poverty has a hand in that as well, so I’m not letting anyone off the hook here, just pointing out that it’s not as simple as “they don’t care about women”. >
  
  The parasite states. >
  
  Thirteen of them. Idaho, South Dakota, Wisconsin, Montana, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas, Mississippi, Tennessee, Kentucky, West Virginia, Alabama >
  
  What the living fuck happened to Wisconsin?  50 years ago it was one of the most progressive states. Maybe top 5. >
  
  Republicans have gerrymandered it to hell and neutered the powers of the Executive branch. >
  
  States to not move to. The usual suspected so far. >
  
  It’s amazing how consistent that list tends to be, isn’t it? >
  
  Georgia is at least moving in the left direction by electing blue Senators. >
  
  they have a MTG problem though. And the Warnock election was way too close. They were a hair's breath away from electing Hershel fuckin Walker. >
  
  Tbf, MTG ran unopposed. Literally nobody lives in her bumfuck district. Atlanta and the surrounding metro area are the only things pulling us blue, but the rest of the state is a backwards mess. >
  
  My in laws all live there I just said that outside of Atlanta its very red so although there are blue senators nationally, on a state level its still very red and not moving left very quickly if at all. >
  
  Exactly which is so sad bc there's so much potential 😔. Oh well.. >
  
  It looks like cancer growing out of the South. >
  
  Something something history repeating itself >
  
  A comprehensive list of states not to live in. >
  
  When will women start to leave these states? >
  
  It's going to be a brain drain, and it's going to be horrific for those states specifically in the fields of nursing and teaching. >
  
  Doesn’t matter.   Those states are closing hospitals and restricting education already >
  
  Idaho already sends a lot of its patients into Washington for care anyway, in true red-state fashion they can't take care of themselves. >
  
  Yep, fucking love seeing maskless folks climbing out of cars with idaho plates when we take my mom to chemo. >
  
  I'm relieved mine died before the pandemic. The only thing worse than holding your Moms' hand as she takes her last breath is not being allowed to do so. All the best to you and your Mom.  Fuck cancer. I hope she kicks its' ass. >
  
  What they said. Dad passed a bit before the covid thing, and I'm now kind of glad of it, since his compromised immune system would have meant it hit the whole household if he so much as got looked at funny by a carrier.
  And since I live in a little ratfuck republican town in Eastern WA, he -would- have gotten looked at funny by a carrier.
  Locals here picket the Planned Parenthood every week. Place doesn't even do abortions. >
  
  I'm sorry for your loss. >
  
  Yours as well. >
  
  It’s so weird seeing Wisconsin change from a progressive populist blue state to a purple state that operates like it’s deep red. >
  
  One of the worst as far as gerrymandering impact.  Also, there was that supreme court case up there that said during Covid you couldn't extend time to mail in Ballots even though in Milwaukee they went from 180 polling places to 5 because "ordinarily" the courts should change voting rules.  Except was covid extrodinary?
  Fucking hypocrites. >
  
  States that I will never go to or spend a dime in >
  
  Yeehaw. >
  
  The new Chastity Belt.
  Forced birth ribbon
  Hypocrisy knows these boundaries. >
  
  Wow.  This has some overlap with the Slave States.  The States with the lowest lifespans.  The States with the highest rate of divorce by 30.  The States with the highest poverty rate.  And the lowest income.  And the highest incarceration rate. >
  
  And the highest maternal mortality rate.
  And the highest infant mortality rate. >
  
  States where Jews have set up an "abortion underground railroad" because fuck religious assholes trying to deprive us of our 1st amendment rights. >
  
  I don’t usually upvote comments that start with “States where Jews have set up…” but here you go >
  
  I, uh, was a little nervous about where that was going, too. >
  
  Okay, now do a map that overlays the locations of the former confederate states, and locations of known neonazi compounds (like the one in North idaho).
  -insert theyre the same picture meme. >
  
  This is an increasingly barbaric country. >
  
  Get your children, yourselves, and your money out of Gilead while you still can. >
  
  /r/welcometogilead >
  
  Six week bans are effectively bans, and those are in more states. >
  
  So happy Michigan put an end to that shit >
  
  Me too man. I got an IUD 4 months before the ban but I had an emergency plan + finances in case I ever had a positive pregnancy test, because there'd be a 50% chance of ectopic. And it's not safe to have an ectopic pregnancy in a state with a full ban. I would suffer for sure, and possibly die. 
  I would have left immediately if I had a positive test and hope we can make the 12 hour drive before any complications.
  Thank goodness it's unnecessary for me, but it's an unrelenting reality for millions of women in these other states >
  
  In May (despite my username I reside in MI) I asked  my physician to replace my IUD even though I had 5-6 years left with it. She thought I was overly paranoid because of the Roe leak (but she did replace it). When I went back in in October she apologized for not taking my fears as seriously as she should have.  
  The relief I felt when Prop 3 passed made me cry.  No matter what happens, my bodily autonomy can’t be taken away from me now.  
  I am trying hard to convince friends and family to GTFO of Oklahoma. >
  
  I am trying to convince certain friends and family to leave Michigan for a state that follows their oppressive ideologies. Michigan is just too free, I don’t want them in the voting booth here. I hope your friends and family aren’t going to try turning this state into Oklahoma. >
  
  Is this the "Stupid Belt?" >
  
  As a former Wisconsinite I vote stupid belt and a mitten >
  
  The only good mitten state is the great state of Michigan!!!! >
  
  I believe that you could own slaves at one time in most of those states, so they’re already familiar with the concept of people being property… >
  
  Well said. >
  
  I’m response to the ban here in Alabama and overall lack of healthcare present, my girlfriend and I decided I would get a vasectomy right before my 21 birthday last October. I had many doctors and a plethora of my family and friends tell me I’m making a mistake and how the Bible they study says not to do such a thing. I did some research and made it happen as I care for my partners safety more than I care about some unjust ideology that is constantly forced upon the citizens of America. >
  
  I'm so, so sorry for the lame pun, but that takes some balls. You sound wise beyond your years. I wish you and your girlfriend a lifetime of worry-free sex. >
  
  The public needs step by step instructions on how to fix the issue. Not trackers of doom. Not tragedies that subsume "action." Not sad stories or fawning history lessons. 
  FFS, people need a road map with instructions. >
  
  Thanks to climate change, at least half of those states will become borderline (if not completely) uninhabitable >
  
  Yeah, but then they’ll migrate es masse to the sane states and eventually turn us batshit too >
  
  We're gonna build a wall. A beautiful, twenty, no, forty-foot wall. And Kentucky's gonna pay for it. Missouri is another one, Missouri can pay along with Kentucky. And we'll have a big beautiful wall, and we'll let some through, the right ones. You have to do what I've started calling "deep vetting," because some of these people, they wanna come here and break things, because, believe me, when these shithole states are sending people, they're not sending their best. >
  
  Shocked that Ohio isn’t on there….yet >
  
  Gov check states. Who would have thought. >
  
  Most of these states also don't teach sex ed in school. >
  
  Wisconsin isn’t a shit state we just have a shit senator… >
  
  I know someone who works in neonatal at major hospital in Texas.  The coming storm is going to devastate health care for pregnant women, and state budgets will be forced to care for unwanted pregnancies of deformed children.  Obstetricians and gynecologists will avoid any procedures that they may fear causes them to be arrested.  And that's if they remain in the red states.  My friend said many are already talking about moving to friendlier states.
  This friend also told me the hospitals are planning for this crisis in the coming years.  Meanwhile, the GOP remains blissfully ignorant of the shit storm they are creating. >
  
  The GOP is well aware. More unwanted pregnancy means more low income wage slaves for the wealthy. >
  
  Starting to wish that the South was allowed to leave. >
  
  Once again. I’ll never understand why the Republican mindset is so concerned over controlling the bodies of well over 50% of the population of the United States starting with women and ending (for now) with LGBQ people. Mind yer own sexuality, ya pervs. >
  
  At what point can we start tracking the impact this has on society? Legit question >
  
  The abortion bans are just an extension of the shit policies of these states. If you compare a map of poor healthcare, maternity death, child hunger, poor performing schools, and poverty, you’ll find the map looks similar. These states are designed to keep people down. >
  
  This! I’ve seen these same states shaded in so many maps, and it’s never good. >
  
  "Mississippi - Banned with exceptions for rape, but not incest"  
  The most "Mississippi" sentence I have ever read. >
  
  Wisconsin, the Alabama of the North! >
  
  Yeah fuck you missouri. Hate living in this shit ass backwards state >
  
  I really don't get it. No one wants to do it intentionally anyway if they can avoid it. What is the point of banning it, when it's normally done in desperation, and they will do it anyway, banned or not, may be in more dangerous way. I feel so depressed, the country that meant to be one of the most free and advanced,  going backwards to make people suffer unnecessarily. >
  
  They want to control women >
  
  Now do a map of poverty rates. >
  
  Map of states where you should not live. >
  
  Unfortunately I do. Idaho is now officially the Florida of the North. >
  
  I see a pattern. >
  
  Do these count as shithole states?  Asking because I live in one. >
  
  Places to never visit, check! >
  
  Oh look... it's the south >
  
  Need a modern day General Sherman of abortion rights >
  
  Kansas is holding the south at bay. >
  
  So damn embarrassed for WI.. re-electing RoJo was just the cherry on the pile of shit. >
  
  I lived in rural WI most of my life. The voter apathy among millennials is horrible. Everyone I knew either was Republican because some dumb team-mentality bs ,or they were closeted Democrats in ideology but “voting doesn’t matter anyways!” “Both sides are bad.” “Nothing changes anyways.” “I don’t want to get selected to jury dutyyyy.” These statements were from multiple people! It was infuriating! Roe being struck down pissed some people off, but still not enough to get them to actually try to change anything. 
  I feel so bad for those who tried to make it better, and are now stuck with these results, but man there needs to be some type of deprogramming for the parts outside Madison and Milwaukee. It’s literally looked at as “uncool” to be a Democrat and gets super toxic depending on who you end up talking with about it. This was my perspective in WI. >
  
  I live in the one shaped like a boot. Y’all, it fucking sucks here. >
  
  I know that one! Italy! >
  
  Utah isn’t on the list??? >
  
  It's the map of the worst states. >
  
  States where women are no longer people >
  
  Amazing, women had their rights stripped all across this nation
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  And have done nothing about it.
  People are sheep. >
  
  Look how it lines up mostly with the slaver states of the old confederacy. >
  
  The paywall is a nice touch. 
  You can't afford or are not ready for a child. 
  For a fee the NYT will tell you where you can safely go. >
  
  How are they supposed to pay their reporters? >
  
  Genital herpes of America. >
  
  This type of map makes me really wonder what is America suppose to be?
  If we go by the original constitution we are to be a federation, and more akin to the EU with various states with a high level of authority to make their own decisions.  
  But since the civil war, we really said "hey you fuckwad backwater states can't be trusted" and pulled towards a more centralized system where federal law reigns more powerful. 
  I see this discourse between left and right and we swing on which side America should be based on the issue. 
  If federalism is the correct model - then we should abolish a lot of the rules that make the coasts subsidize the south and Midwest. We should be free to legalize what we want, ban what we don't. And the federal government should be forced to recognize our will. Obviously this will impede a lot of commerce and travel since people won't want to cross the line into places like Idaho. 
  If it's a centralized government- then they need to STFU with all this backwards stuff. No more electoral college, no more abortion bans because a few states wanted it. >
  
  So weird but all of these are on my list of states I’d rather not go to. >
  
  Oh hey, look. The shithole part of America. >
  
  Oh cool, all these states suck to live in anyway! But thanks for the reminder of places to never go to. I feel bad for all the folks who can’t afford to leave though… >
  
  Long live the confederacy! /s >
  
  If anyone is a history buff, now compare those states with ones that were in The Confederacy. Aside from those three northern states and surprising absent Florida, SC and NC... its fairly close to the Confederate Maps >
  
  Rule by minority. Unless people start taking to the street and using their constitutional rights, nothing will change. >
  
  Pretty much the whole confederacy reppin red. Interesting. Not surprised about the other 3. >
  
  The states where a politician decides what is and isn't healthcare for women. >
  
  Also some of the states with the worst healthcare in the country. >
  
  If they ever make a Batshit Crazy! map.. it will look like this.
  Every time I see a map covering a topic that would help America or not help America, the not help segment always looks just like this. >
  
  I fought to get Roe VS wade the conservative Supreme Court Justices are going to stop birth control too. Very rich no problem get a abortion while on a European vacation get birth control too.Amazing how a group who lost it if you asked them to wear mask .Are supportive with controlling other lives in such a deep personal way for at least 18 yrs.Their  pro birth not pro life the mother. can die how insane is the usa I'm ashamed of how our young women are treated but it's Unbelievably true >
  
  Oh wow. It's the states I would never want to live in. >
  
  So by car, theres about 4 days of just driving somewhere if you live in the 4th most populous city in the country, Houston. >
  
  Can we now legislate vasectomies for males, we can allow them to reverse it upon legal marriage. >
  
  I live in MI, and when all the props passed it was such a relief. My heart goes out to all the women living in those banned areas. >
  
  Nice map of backward shitholes you have there. >
  
  The ignorance nee prison nee crime nee meth nee heroin belt! >
  
  Of course the entire confederacy wants to stay locked in the past. If they could bring back slavery, they would. This is better for them though since they are the poorest states in the nation they can bleed more tax dollars of the rest of us to support all those unwanted pregnancies. >
  
  No decent people live in any of those states anyway. Let them enjoy the hell of their own making.