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The graph is, in a large way, an inversion of population density.
by ghayes 3y ago
The graph is, in a large way, an inversion of population density.
- mortureb 3y agoThat’s one correlation but it seems like that conjecture doesn’t extend to Florida or Texas.
- ianai 3y agoIt’s a correlation but the correlation probably wouldn’t be so high. The north east is plenty dense compared to the south east (iirc). I think this really shows a cultural difference amid population and probably other things. I’ve outside of this heard the South has in someways never really bounced back from the end of slavery. Could be a kind of cultural scar or lack of “infrastructure”. Like how Lincoln’s reconstruction plans never happened and his successor went a quite different direction.
- pixl97 3y ago> Could be a kind of cultural scar At least anecdotally it feels that way. I moved from one of the states that was totally clear in this map, to eastern Texas when I was younger and the social scars from the civil war still exist and by the way some people talk even to this day, you'ld think the war had ended last year. It was complete insanity to me.
- mortureb 3y agoIf we’re jumping to conclusions a much simpler explanation would be that Republican led states enact policies that lead to poor health outcomes.
- parineum 3y agoYou might want to take another look at that map and then look at where the big cities in florida and texas are located. The smoking blob pretty much stops at the major cities in Texas and the population centers of Florida are white as California.
- mortureb 3y agoThe population centers are also democratic hotbeds so it’s most likely a matter of policy.
- tzs 3y agoFor firearm suicides it sort of is, but not really so much for the rest. I'm looking at the density map here [1]. [1] https://vividmaps.com/us-population-density/ https://vividmaps.com/us-population-density/