Maps showing the many failings of US Republican states

Republican states: Worse healthcare, lower minimum wages, worse cannabis laws. Compare to Canada. US has higher rates of maternal mortality, overdue debt (often medical), poverty, murder, incarceration. Lower percentage of female legislators. Lack of no-excuse postal voting. 
Wikimedia Commons category: Many US maps showing the failings of GOP states (in the South for example). And category of same maps, but with notes about Republican states. See: mirror.
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Report Shows How Lawmakers in GOP-Dominated South Harm Workers. July 18, 2024.
US Republican states. It is not just cannabis prohibition. & Mirror. Many maps. Includes cannabis map. 
== Republican states. Maps ==
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Wikipedia: US Republican states. List shows GOP-controlled states.
Click to enlarge maps. Note Republican states (in the South for example). 
Wikipedia: Maternal mortality in the United States. See PNG map with note.
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Wikipedia: Medicaid coverage gap of US Affordable Care Act. See PNG map with note.
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Explore Teeth Extractions - Age 65+ in the United States. AHR. See PNG map with note.
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Wikipedia: Incarceration rates by state. See PNG map with note.
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Wikipedia: List of U.S. states and territories by poverty rate. See PNG map with note.
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Wikipedia: United States drug overdose death rates and totals over time.
Wikimedia: SVG map and PNG (for Facebook, etc.).
Wikipedia: List of U.S. states and territories by intentional homicide rate. CDC includes justifiable homicides too. See PNG map with note.
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Wikipedia: Female state legislators in the United States. See PNG map with note.
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Note the persistent poverty counties in the Republican south:
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Mostly in U.S. Republican states.
Percent of adults with overdue debt in collections. By county. See PNG map.
See Wikipedia: Firearm death rates in the United States by state. See . And CNN: States with weaker gun laws have higher rates of firearm related homicides and suicides, study finds.
== GOP minimum wages ==
Return to top. $7.25 federal minimum wage since 2009 due to Republican filibusters.
"Study after study has found that raising minimum wages has a positive effect on employment." - John Driscoll. Member of the Patriotic Millionaires. Sep 12, 2024 article. 
*Why do US Republican leaders hate Americans? Why won't they raise the US federal minimum wage above $7.25?
*2021 April 22: 62% in US support a $15 federal minimum wage. Stop voting in Republicans if you don't want the low minimum wages found in Republican states. 
7 Oct 2021: Reallocation effects of the minimum wage. "In January 2015, Germany introduced a uniform minimum wage of €8.50 ($9.47 an hour today). ... boosted wages of low-wage workers, did not lower employment, and induced a reallocation toward more productive establishments." 11 Jan 2022: Minimum wage in Germany to be raised once again in 2022. It's $13.28 an hour in 2024, and Germany has universal healthcare.
*A $15 minimum wage would cost jobs, right? Probably not, economists say.
*There’s More Evidence That Raising the Minimum Wage Won’t Cost Jobs.
*The U.S. has one of the stingiest minimum wage policies of any wealthy nation. Washington Post.
*See Wikipedia: Republican states.
*Wikipedia: List of US states by minimum wage.
*Wikipedia: List of European countries by minimum wage.
Wikipedia: List of US states by minimum wage. $7.25 states are majority Republican in both houses. New Hampshire in Senate only. Get PNG map noting GOP states.
See Wikimedia SVG map. See PNG map (for Facebook, etc.).
History of the US federal minimum wage. Over $14 (inflation-adjusted) peak in 1968. $7.25 an hour now due to Republican filibusters in the US Senate. See Wikimedia GIF chart.
See Fight for $15. US map below is percent of workers earning less than $15 per hour. Concerning the gray n/a states CEPR wrote: "States that had minimum wages of at least $15 and those that were between $14 and $15 were not analyzed."
Convert a US list/table to a state-by-state data map. With examples and step-by step instructions.
Source and comments. - JPG image.
== GOP COVID death rates ==
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Anti-vaxxers and anti-maskers died in record numbers in the US Republican south. See: Map of COVID-19 death rates by US state. See the latest trends at the CDC page. 
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== User-editable maps ==
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The SVG versions of the PNG maps below have user-editable sections (any text editor) to allow creation of more maps on more topics. 2 different methods. See examples of one method at Commons: Category: English-language SVG choropleth maps of the United States with visible numbers. Made with templates. Links to PNG versions (good for Facebook, etc.) can be found directly under the SVG maps on their file pages. Pick the largest size. Facebook will let you upload it. Then when someone clicks on it on Facebook, it will expand to a large readable size.
Convert a US list/table to a state-by-state data map. With examples and step-by step instructions. Example:
[[File:Homicide rates per 100,000 by state. FBI. US map.png|thumb|512px|none|Wikipedia: U.S. states and territories by intentional homicide rate. FBI does not include justifiable homicides. Wikimedia: SVG map and PNG (for Facebook, etc.) See PNG map with note.]]
Wikipedia: Postal voting in United States. Example of Republican voter suppression in GOP states. See PNG map with note. See map creation help on talk page of similar map.
Wikimedia: SVG map and PNG (for Facebook, etc.)
== See also ==
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See: Beyond drug war, debt, and wealth concentration. To single-payer healthcare and progressive taxation.
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