SUBSTANTIVE findings ...
1 – There is a non-random, top/bottom, Dem/Rep pattern.
2 – Rep states are always on the negative side.
3 – In all of the previous posts, there has been a nagging thought: Is there some way to quantify that some correlations are more important? The "impact" quantity does so (I think): the evangelical-incarceration correlation for the Dem states sticks out ... is this a one-time coincidence? ... will it be so for other 'response' metrics?
What did you learn about Repubs and Dems ...?
The truth of 1 and 2: Thanksgiving politics arguments are NOT just "my opinion, your opinion" – the Rep states are less productive, more obese, more suicidal, have less life expectancy, more infant mortality, more accidental deaths, receive more federal funds than they give in taxes, have a higher opioid dispensing rate, higher serious crime rate, spend less on education, have lower median incomes ... (most of the foregoing have been previously posted).
... jeez, the statistical improbability of "150 million voters, acting individually, separate(ing) the fifty states into two such disparate groups" is just plain awe-fully "mysterious".
(The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom the emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand wrapped in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.)