Immune system damage from tattoo ink hasn’t been factored in the stats yet.
On the author...
“Colin Woodard is a POLITICO Magazine contributing writer and director of the Nationhood Lab at Salve Regina University’s Pell Center for International Relations and Public Policy. He is the author of six books including American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America.”
Okaaaaay...
They sure got it right with yankeedom. When i lived there for a while every old person I knew was dying right at 79 years old..including my grandma.
Didn’t factor in buying more guns and ammo being tied to less money available for healthcare. Or the “Y’all, hold my beer and watch this!” factor.
Politico continues with the stupid and failed century old notion that socialism/progressivism/statism can make everyone’s life better, if only we centrally-plan better, and find the political enemies obstructing it
They updated the lie by adding a bit of deconstructionist white-colonial race-marxism into the mix
Obviously the lingering effects of Reconstruction and ongoing persecution by the occupying forces.
Reparations are obviously in order for multigenerational southerners. Those that can prove ancestry in the South prior to 1865 should be entitled to Yankee money.
“El Norte”?
Sugar, white carbs, seed oils, lack of exercise. All found in great abundance in the South.
(I’ve been in Charlotte, NC for over 30 years now.)
Next question.
Black population of Lexington County, SC: 15%
Black population of Placer County, CA: 2%
I have a physician friend who is from Iowa and he moved to South Carolina to a racially diverse small-sized city. He is shocked at how southern blacks do not take care of themselves. They wait until their leg needs to get amputated before coming in for medical care. Overweight, no exercise, poor diet. He advised that the difference between how poor whites in the Midwest take care of themselves is night and day compared to southern blacks. He was completely shocked by what he saw.
The author appears to start with progressive premises, assumes some are simply fact, and then uses selective supporting data to “prove” the rest.
Much like “we all know that global warming causes an (increase/decrease) in hurricanes.” Pick your trend according to the latest weather phenomena.
What is the life expectancy of a neighborhood of fudge packers?
No doubt, it’s even less than a neighborhood of democrat cannibals. /spit
More liberal claptrap to make liberals feel superior. Yay, I live a few months longer than some white country grandma who raised her kids and eats pies she made herself with lard... sacrificing my whole life for a career in mid-level corporate administration was great and I can die peacefully knowing my cats will inherit my rent-controlled apartment.
One of the lifespan differentiators between liberal/progressive/commies and conservatives is that the liberal/progressive/commies tend to support medical interventions that actually shorten lifespans such as euthanasia for the elderly. Their other less obvious tendencies include not prosecuting criminals increasing the chances that their residents will be killed by criminals; allowing homeless people to live outside of civilization where they can only get medical care in an emergency room which will increase the likelihood that they will die of a drug overdose or undiagnosed illness; they want people to be able to buy junk foods and sugary beverages with their public assistance funds which will lead to an increased tendency towards obesity and bad dental outcomes; opposing the use of firearms for legitimate self defense increasing the chances that people will die for lack of being able to defend themselves although this wraps into my first point about criminals.
I could go on all day about how liberal/progressive/commie policies will lead to shorter lifespans. All day.
most of the Siuth consists of transplants from the North.
I scanned the article but saw nothing related to murder and violence of other kinds.
JD Vance in his autobiography plainly pointed out the violence found in the Appalachian community, and of course, violence and crime is notablable among blacks ( young black males, especially).
It appears that the author moves forward with the erroneous idea that all cultures are equally responsible both within white and black societies. To the author it is merely access to, and money spent on, healthcare that is the cause of the difference in life expectancy.
mostly a liberal policy screed gussied up with medical statistics. Notes Wisconsin with its “Republican gerrymandered legislature” did not expand Medicaid, the action which he most focuses on as the disparity between “good policies”
deserving of praise in surrounding states and laissez-faire policies responsible for early deaths in those that did not expand. Well, since he notes the anomaly, wouldn’t the next step be to show Wisconsin outcomes inferior to the surrounding area? .... silence. I am guessing that Medicaid expansion made it available to 30% vs. 20% by expansion; to make the argument, doesn’t he have to show that the lowest quintile ( if that’s what it is) have similar outcomes in both sets of states? ( i.e. Medicaid exapanders vs. Medicaid non-expanders) but that 20< but <30 % income group where the Medicaid eligibilty should enable better medical care in expansion states is where the improvement to access is shown? The great Democrat healthcare idea is supposed to be “Medicare for all ;” Medicare is available in all states. As we have hashed and rehashed for years, Obamacare in the Zeke Emanuel intent was to keep you going until 75 and then ration you to the grave. Since he offers Mexicans as the zenith of health ( of those he mentions), wouldn’t focusing on that demo be most instructive, especially in terms of public policy, since that is the factor he sees as most critical.(Poor editing botches the point about Mexicans in terms of actual life expectancy). Lastly, the experts he quotes seem to be talking out of their hats, offering make-it -up as you go along crafted from their own stereotypes. Actually, he’s made a good argument for contrails lingering in hot humid air longer than in cooler climes.