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Of COURSE They’re The WORST States to Live In - The Worst States to Live In Ranked
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CNBC released its 2026 ranking of the ten worst states to live in, and every state on the list is a red state. Hawk counts them down: Arkansas, Oklahoma, Alabama, Missouri, Utah, Georgia, Louisiana, Indiana, Texas, and at number one, Tennessee. He connects Tennessee's placement to its politics, including aggressive gerrymandering that followed the Supreme Court's rollback of Voting Rights Act protections.
The reaction is the story. Senator Marsha Blackburn, currently running for governor of Tennessee, went on Fox Business with Maria Bartiromo and objected that the ten worst states all happen to be red. Hawk points out that CNBC built the rankings on hard data, crime rates, air quality, and health care access, and argues those are exactly the categories where Republican policy priorities show up in outcomes.
From there Hawk makes his broader case about what the data reflects: on clean air and water, on access to health care, and on which crimes get political attention. He frames the ranking less as a partisan attack than as a scoreboard, and argues the results track closely with decades of policy choices in these states, before touching on taxing, spending, and education as further factors.
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