alaska... its a shithole..... u keep it...Um, statistics ARE "reality on the ground", and Alaska's per capita rates of violent crime are second in the Nation, and nearly twice the rate of the second-place winner for rape, in other words, leading the entire Country.
What will you folks pull out of your asses next to justify hollow bullshit that defies unfounded knee-jerk nonsense??
Science, social or otherwise, seems to be a hurdle too high for many here to embrace, let alone understand.
So please explain to me (and others) how, exactly, hard and fast data is not reflective of reality "on the ground"?