Have states with lockdown protests been hit harder by unemployment? FiveThirtyEight explores:
None of the differences above are statistically significant, but they do show a few interesting trends about which states have protests — and why. On average, states with protests have 28 percent fewer confirmed coronavirus cases than states without protests, which might play into a mindset that places the economic fallout of the crisis ahead of the virus’s health implications.
Perhaps most surprising in this breakdown is that a larger share of protest states had Republican governors than the states without protests, given the perception that protesters — often— were trying to undermine Democratic governors’ stay-at-home orders. As the job-loss numbers continue to pile up over the coming weeks, we may see even more people pile out of their houses to argue against the coronavirus stay-at-home orders. But the numbers above show that there’s more than just economics at work behind the protests.
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