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> New Hampshire has tons of guns, violent crime comparable to Nordic countries.I’d say in order the biggest determinants are: culture, social cohesion, and pove
by diogenescynic 5y ago
> New Hampshire has tons of guns, violent crime comparable to Nordic countries.I’d say in order the biggest determinants are: culture, social cohesion, and poverty.
This sounds like borderline race theory or something Charles Murray would argue... So basically you’re saying that richer white people in homogeneous states are less violent than the states with poor, more diverse populations? I don’t think it’s based on race or culture, but income and class are definitely factors.
- thesuitonym 5y agoIncome is probably the biggest predictor of who will go on to commit violent crime, but guess what also correlates to income? In the US, non-white people are mostly poor.
- diogenescynic 5y agoCounter-point: highest income earners are actually Indian-Americans: https://gulfnews.com/world/americas/indians-in-america-make-100000-on-average-highest-earning-ethnic-group-1.1569215954674 https://gulfnews.com/world/americas/indians-in-america-make-...
- dfilppi 5y agoNo he didnt basically say that
- tjs8rj 5y agoWhat? I justified why I put culture and social cohesion first explicitly in my comment: because many poorer asian countries do much better than many richer white countries on average. The culture variable is overriding the income one. Culture is so obviously a factor: why does Switzerland have so many guns and similar average income to New Hampshire but much less violence? Clearly culture has an effect.