[CondoleezzaProtege]

Based on the US suicide map. With regard to mental health: they’re onto something. It’s not by accident Tyler Robinson hailed from Utah and Columbine set off the school shooting trend in Littleton, Colorado…Yes there is crime in big cities and they’re not for everyone…but there’s something to be said for the mental havoc suburban isolationism has wrought on modern children in post-industrial America. The rural life and extended family and community networks of ages past is no longer. At least cities in the mold of NY and Europe offer human engagement, artistic enrichment, and other healthy outlets…

Deaths per 100,000 population are age-adjusted to the 2000 U.S. standard population.

[Jane Long]

Please remove me from your (Euro-leftist leaning posts) ping list.

Thank you!

[T.B. Yoits]

Re: Post 34 Map and comment

At least cities in the mold of NY and Europe offer human engagement, artistic enrichment, and other healthy outlets…

The cities are filled with first generation immigrants, many of them illegal. They're fleeing something worse in their home countries. The mental health situation isn't by geography alone but by family support by generation. The children of immigrants follow the same patterns as Americans within two generations, if not one.

There is also the fail-out rate, where mental problems inevitably lead to financial problems, and in order to avoid the high costs of cities, they end up in suburban areas.

It would be interesting to overlay that map with a map of abortions. For a while now, New York City has more black children aborted each year than born. It's not that the city had more "human engagement, artistic enrichment, and other healthy outlets", it's that their industry of killing children is in full effect.

Keep in mind that city governments have contributed to the dispersion as well, offering vouchers to areas outside the city to get their "problem children" out. Once out, the politicians end the voucher and the mental stress climbs. From 2019:
https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/newark-sues-mayor-de-blasio-new-york-city-over-relocating-homeless-sota-program/2236245/

[Cowgirl of Justice]

The lowest suicide rates are in the states with the highest immigrant welfare payments.

Go figure.

[sopo]

run the homicide rate now

[FoxInSocks]

One possible explanation:

Sociologist Matt Wray of UNLV originally deemed this swath of the United States the suicide belt when he noticed the suicide trend in the early 2000s. Looking closer at the data, he determined several key factors that could lead to these states' high suicide rates.

"The Intermountain West is a place that is disproportionately populated by middle-aged and aging white men, single, unattached, often unemployed, with access to guns," Wray told Freakonomics Radio in the 2011 episode "The Suicide Paradox."