@pkrugman Interesting! I guess rural areas, aka generally republican strongholds, also have greater distances/faster traffic, and possibly lower incomes/less safe cars.

Of course, greater distances should ideally have been a huge advantage during COVID, but we all know the GOP eliminated that advantage.

It wouldn't surprise me if republicans were less likely to wear seatbelts than their neighbour democrats, but I think we'd need better data to conclude on anything like that.