To the editor: Since you might be intent on giving folks in crimson states (especially Tennessee) a platform to bash Los Angeles and California, I belief you’ll give voice to the “different aspect” as nicely.
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 accordance with the U.S. Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention, in 2021 the firearm dying price 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 price is the bottom within the nation; Tennessee’s is likely one of the highest.
Tennessee has a a lot decrease gross home product per capita and is far more depending on federal authorities funding than California. It’s a so-called taker state. California will not be.
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’ve. Due to this fact, a few of the blame for the disastrous climate-related fires in L.A. County this yr arguably lies at their ft.
Judy Pang, Palos Verdes Estates
