Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene removed from US House Freedom Caucus

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Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene removed from US House Freedom Caucus
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Just addressing the "almost has the same GDP as California" statement

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territories_by_GDP

Nominal GDP 2022 California: $3,598,103 million USD Texas: $2,355,960 million USD

Per Capita GDP 2022 California: $92,190 Texas: $78,456

?????

It's a common lie. The reality is that red states score much lower on every objective quality of life metric, while having much higher rates of things like violent crime, addiction and suicide than any blue state let alone any of the US's peer nations in the rest of the developed world. It's not even remotely close. With very few exceptions, the social pathologies we see throughout the US are concentrated in red states. Blue states have problems too, but they tend to be related to the fact that they are highly desirable places to live.

Thank you for addressing that part! Easy to see the hard numbers don't play out that way.

Exactly. I never said they have the same,biit for the population difference its pretty high go there.