To the editor: Since you’re intent on giving folks in pink states (especially Tennessee) a platform to bash Los Angeles and California, I belief you’ll give voice to the “different facet” as effectively.
Whereas Californians have significantly better issues to do than fear about what Southerners think about our issues to be, they appear to be obsessive about us. So, a comparability of how our states stack up in key measures is so as.
In response to the U.S. Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention, in 2021 the firearm dying charge per 100,000 folks in Tennessee was 22.53, the nation’s tenth highest. California’s was 9, rating it forty third. California’s maternal mortality charge is the bottom within the nation; Tennessee’s is without doubt one of the highest.
Tennessee has a a lot decrease gross home product per capita and is way more depending on federal authorities funding than California. It’s a so-called taker state. California just isn’t.
Lastly, Tennessee and different Southern states nonetheless don’t have local weather motion plans, a lot much less made any progress on decreasing carbon emissions, as we now have. Due to this fact, among the blame for the disastrous climate-related fires in L.A. County this 12 months arguably lies at their toes.
Judy Pang, Palos Verdes Estates
