[MSM]

This isn't just a list of highest murder rates per capita, it's got some population threshold- likely the 300k population on wikipedia- which boils down to there being like 5 Republicans that have managed to get elected in large cities.

[woodpanel]

> This isn't just a list of highest murder rates per capita

It is: https://freedomforallamericans.org/highest-murders-in-us-by-...

Edit: To be fair though, it is A list. I'm sure there are others as well, as the authors note, its hard to gather most recent data

[valleyer]

The point is that if you have a small municipality, a small number of murders would easily top your examples. St. Louis has a murder rate around 70/100k. As a toy example, Murphy, N.C., population 1700, saw a double murder last year. So their rate is almost 118/100k.

So yes, your list is applying some sort of population threshold, which means you are then also just selecting for big cities.