>Almost like the denser the population, the less regard people have for each others' lives. The problem with this is that Louisiana, Mississippi, and other rur

>Almost like the denser the population, the less regard people have for each others' lives. The problem with this is that Louisiana, Mississippi, and other rural states follow DC on the list. New Hampshire is no more or no less densely populated than those states. The best single way to identify a US state's placement on the list is to look at the percentage of blacks in the population <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_racial_and_ethnic_demographics_of_the_United_States#Black_population_as_a_percentage_of_the_total_population_by_U.S._region_and_state_(1790%E2%80%932020) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_racial_and_ethnic_d...>, then by urbanity. It's not a 1:1 correlation—nothing is—but it's pretty close.