Washington is doing a lot better despite not being the biggest route into our largest trading partner or flush with oil money. Texas is among the worst states in the union.
Texas is one of the worst for human rights to the point where I wouldn't even drive through. They had to make a law that their police have to stop searching drivers buttholes without cause and yet they keep getting sued for doing random cavity searches. The last run through my parents got the third degree with implication that they might be immigrants. My fathers roots are in England/Scotland and both families have lived here for longer than the US has been the US.
It is the among the worst for reproductive rights with lawmakers wanting to punish women for abortions obtained in other states, punish women who even drive through anti abortion counties on their way to leave the state, and let any interested party including woman's rapists collect a bounty on the head of their victim in a brazen attempt to avoid getting the law thrown out.
Because of this and other factors its drastically short of doctors having almost the worst ratio of doctors to patients in the US
It allows a certain county judge selected by Trump handle all the most insanely biased cases that nobody in their right mind would take handing out rulings binding citizens in other states. These cases are so ridiculous that the 6v3 conservative Supreme Court has to keep stepping in to put down this court's militantly stupid decisions.
It is among the worst for democracy. It is working to try to pass a law that all statewide offices would have to be held by candidates who won the majority of the majority of its counties not its population. For reference Texas has 256 counties some with as few as a few dozen people and the majority of the majority could constitute as little as 4% of its population. It wants to enshrine rural republican rule at the expense of anything else.
It filed a lawsuit last go round asking the surpreme court to literally throw out everyone's votes and essentially appoint Trump President.
> It wants to enshrine rural republican rule at the expense of anything else.
No problem there unless you like being the ruler from afar. Perhaps a good solution would be to split governance so that urban and rural populations stay separate.
Until the West Coast states are safe to be openly anywhere right of center, I’ll take rural Texas or Fort Worth for good or ill.
It is profoundly weird to describe filling statewide offices based on the a democratic vote as "ruling from afar". The alternative filling offices based on whomever wins the majority of the majority of counties would allow a tiny minority of the electorate to decide the fate of all their fellows. It allows the minority to rule from afar instead of the majority.
As described the majority of the the majority is literally four single digit four percent of the electorate. The obvious intent is that at present the majorities views align with the minority and it should change the rules such as to prevent usurpation even should they lose the popular mandate.
It presages a future Texas where the majority of Texans want to move forward and the way is barred for a generation.
It is exactly by proportion as if we should decide that the only people who are allowed to hold nationwide office is someone who wins Minnesota no matter how the vote goes elsewhere. It's a world in which Walter Mondale wins Minnesota and we declare him president despite losing every other state to Reagan.
Then someone pops up and defends Minnisotism somehow as preventing the subjugation of Minnesota.
> Until the West Coast states are safe to be openly anywhere right of center, I’ll take rural Texas or Fort Worth for good or ill.
It's pretty safe... I live in Portland and am not shy about telling people I think that social security and the Wagner Act and OSHA are all unconstitutional, and that I think government should never provide welfare, and nothing bad has happened to me. In fact earlier this year I requested trial by combat from the Portland taxiation office, both on the phone and in a written letter, such that my victory could exclude me from paying Supportive Housing taxes; the only outcome was the lady on the phone laughed at me.
Texas is one of the worst for human rights to the point where I wouldn't even drive through. They had to make a law that their police have to stop searching drivers buttholes without cause and yet they keep getting sued for doing random cavity searches. The last run through my parents got the third degree with implication that they might be immigrants. My fathers roots are in England/Scotland and both families have lived here for longer than the US has been the US.
It is the among the worst for reproductive rights with lawmakers wanting to punish women for abortions obtained in other states, punish women who even drive through anti abortion counties on their way to leave the state, and let any interested party including woman's rapists collect a bounty on the head of their victim in a brazen attempt to avoid getting the law thrown out.
Because of this and other factors its drastically short of doctors having almost the worst ratio of doctors to patients in the US
https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/rankings-and-ratings/s...
It has more people without health insurance than any other state and its getting worse in recent years.
https://www.census.gov/library/visualizations/interactive/pe...
It is among the worst for law and order. It's AG is a criminal several times over.
https://apnews.com/article/paxton-indictment-texas-d5e57fc6c...
It allows a certain county judge selected by Trump handle all the most insanely biased cases that nobody in their right mind would take handing out rulings binding citizens in other states. These cases are so ridiculous that the 6v3 conservative Supreme Court has to keep stepping in to put down this court's militantly stupid decisions.
It is among the worst for democracy. It is working to try to pass a law that all statewide offices would have to be held by candidates who won the majority of the majority of its counties not its population. For reference Texas has 256 counties some with as few as a few dozen people and the majority of the majority could constitute as little as 4% of its population. It wants to enshrine rural republican rule at the expense of anything else.
It filed a lawsuit last go round asking the surpreme court to literally throw out everyone's votes and essentially appoint Trump President.
https://www.texastribune.org/2020/12/11/texas-lawsuit-suprem...
Despite being hard on crime its murder rate is slightly higher than average while its incarceration level is much higher than average.
https://www.sentencingproject.org/research/us-criminal-justi... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
List_of_U.S._states_and_territories_by_intentional_homicide_rate