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  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.
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.