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 NY Times: Do You Live in a ‘Tight’ State or a ‘Loose’ One? Turns Out It Matters Quite a Bit. By Thomas B. Edsall By Thomas B. Edsall - Mr. Edsall contributes a weekly column from Washington, D.C., on politics, demographics and inequality.

...“‘tight’ states would exhibit a higher incidence of natural disasters, greater environmental vulnerability, fewer natural resources, greater incidence of disease and higher mortality rates, higher population density, and greater degrees of external threat.”

The South dominated the tight states...