You won't be beaten to death in Red states. They will make you feel unwelcome/uncomfortable, but they are not so violent as to beat you to death.

Yes some people are that violent. However such people are everywhere. You are more likely to find them in the blue states just because the population density is higher.

The FBI seems to disagree.

https://ucr.fbi.gov/hate-crime/2016/tables/table-11

https://ucr.fbi.gov/hate-crime/2016/tables/table-12

Note that the tables seem to differentiate between

The state with the most hate crimes was California, at 931. California's population is 40 million. Next up is New York, at 595 incidents over 20 million citizens. Pretty close per person to California. (.000023 vs .000029, someone check my math).

Next up... Ohio, 442 incidents to 10 million citizens. .000044. Michigan, 399 to 10 million. Kentucky, oh Kentucky, 206 to 4.4 million.

I'm sorry but I am from Oklahoma and you are incorrect. Gay people are regularly beaten, threatened, have their houses burned, and are even murdered. It has been less than a year since drive-by shootings at LGBT organizations in both Tulsa and Oklahoma City.

"In March, the Tulsa headquarters of Oklahomans for Equality was the victim of a similar incident. Security camera video caught a white truck drive by and fire more than a dozen times at the center early in the morning on March 6."

Even if homophobes are just as present, blue states have a more accommodating legal framework to prosecute them.

LGBT persons are not a protected class at the federal level: look at a map of states that include it as a protected class, and nearly all the states that don't include it are red. http://www.lgbtmap.org/equality-maps/non_discrimination_laws

> Sure those places are “liberal” unless a working class person is also a gay man who is afraid of being beaten to death in the streets.

As a gay man from Idaho I’d love it if you could chill out with the hyperbole.

"Steven Nelson died after he responded to an online ad promising a sexual encounter. He was instead attacked by Kelly Schneider, who yelled homophobic slurs while kicking him repeatedly with steel-toed boots, then stripped and robbed him in the pre-dawn darkness near Gott’s Point, prosecutors have said."

And yet here you are responding to a person who said that he was actually gay, and telling you that you are exaggerating. How about you let the people you are talking about speak for themselves?

That was kind of my "meta" point. Social liberalism and economic liberalism have diverged. "Blue states" are more socially tolerant and liberal but have become strongholds for Plutocrats where everyone below the upper middle or "professional" class is paying >50% of their income to real estate or is priced out entirely. "Red states" tend toward the socially reactionary but offer an economic environment that's overall better for average working middle class people. You can afford a place to live and the general cost of living tends to be a lot lower.

This is an over generalization. Red state or blue state, where wealth centralizes, poor people are priced out. Notice that the cities with the highest wealth gaps are not exclusively in blue states.[1]

Likewise, expensive blue states like MA and CA have plenty of places to find affordable housing, they just don't happen to be in the middle of Boston or San Francisco.

[1] http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/2016/06/21/25-US-Cities-Worst-...

But this has nothing at all to do with social issues or land use policies- the land is cheaper, simply because the demand is lower and the supply is higher.