It IS true, and hard to ignore, actually IMPOSSIBLE to ignore, unless you are strolling around with liberal blinders on...
It is true that it is mostly a white state. It is ignorant to say that is why it is the safest state. High crime areas occur in highly populated extremely impoverished areas. You can try and say its because of race but at the turn of the last century, the crime rates were the highest in areas populated by Italians and Irish not mention the gangsters of the 1930's were all white as well as the mafias which got their start at that time.
You left out the Jewish mobsters, they were in organized crime up to their necks, too:
