To the editor: Since you might be intent on giving individuals in crimson states (especially Tennessee) a platform to bash Los Angeles and California, I belief you’ll give voice to the “different aspect” as properly.
Whereas Californians have a lot 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 loss of life charge per 100,000 individuals 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 among 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 is just not.
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 have now. Subsequently, a few of 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
