States that voted for Democrat Barack Obama in the 2012 presidential election have, on average, better high school and college graduation rates than states that supported Republican Mitt Romney, according to U.S. Census data.
Red states fall 1.5 percentage points below the national average for high school completion rate (84.2% vs. 85.7%), and 3.3 percentage points below the national average for college degree attainment (25.1% vs. 28.4%).
Blue states, in comparison, perform slightly above the national averages—by 0.8 and 2 percentage points, respectively.
https://time.com/101697/blue-states-...an-red-states/
Few factors bear as heavily on the well-being of any state’s citizens as their overall quality of health. In evaluating the Best States for health care, access to preventive medical and dental treatment for children and adults alike is a key consideration.
Hawaii is the top state for health care. It’s followed by Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey and California to round out the top five.
https://www.usnews.com/news/best-sta...gs/health-care
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if Maryland had the school system and health care of Alabama or Mississippi .. I wouldnt live in Maryland.
Maryland is ranked as the 4th best public school state in the Country and Howard County is ranked the 1st county in Maryland.
I have a major hospital 5 miles from my house. I have John Hopkins 20 miles from my house.
I have a 6 figure job and am surrounded by job opportunities in the 6 figure range. My house increased over 100k in value over the past few years.
We pay more in State and local taxes but live in a better state of health wealth and social services.