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Not surprising for whites. D.C. Is home to many of the richest and most powerful families in the nation, most of which are still whites. It's long been studied
by purple-again 10y ago
Not surprising for whites. D.C. Is home to many of the richest and most powerful families in the nation, most of which are still whites. It's long been studied that the rich have much better access which leads to a higher life expectancy on average.
The blacks is a head scratcher. You would expect Baltimore or Chicago to crush DC thanks to their famous gang violence but maybe those states don't provide statistics.
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- dragonwriter 10y ago> You would expect Baltimore or Chicago to crush DC thanks to their famous gang violence but maybe those states don't provide statistics D.C. has a high violent crime rate, but Republican politicians recently don't trumpet it to attack the local government and the party behind it the way they do Baltimore or, particularly, Chicago's, perhaps because while D.C. has an elected (and Democrat-dominated) city government that is allowed some latitude, it's government is Constitutionally a Congressional power, and Congress regularly exercises that power to prescribe local policy or veto local government acts, so they'd end up pointing the finger at their own failures if they were to blame government in D.C.