I'm surprised this shitty visualization made it here out of all places. The colorbar is "clearly" picked to make things more dramatic: the "middle" isn't cente

I'm surprised this shitty visualization made it here out of all places. The colorbar is "clearly" picked to make things more dramatic: the "middle" isn't centered (red part is longer), each end has a sizable chunk that basically has the same dark color. Also isn't the dominant factors simply poverty? One of course can go further and discuss why these regions are poorer (which IMO is history), but the direct cause of low life expectancy variation in the US is pretty clear to me to be poverty than secondary things like life choices and/or policies. OTOH, the fact the US as a whole is significantly lower than many other developed countries is something more interesting.