I think they need to remove graduation rate from the equation. Oklahoma has a higher graduation rate than decidedly non-red neck places like California, New York, Washington, Delaware, and Hawaii. I think that skews the results and could be causing us not to be ranked as highly as we should be.
http://www.americashealthrankings.org/ALL/Graduation/
There must be a common denominator in all those areas of low graduation. Any ideas?