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To: yarddog

Yes, but who is responsible for almost 100% of violent crimes? Poor people. The chances of Oprah mugging me are close to zero.


127 posted on 02/03/2005 6:51:40 PM PST by durasell (Friends are so alarming, My lover's never charming...)
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To: durasell
As a matter of fact, being poor has little to do with it.

When I was in grad school I did a study in a demographics class on the correlation, or lack of, between Race and murder rates for the state of Florida.

The most interesting thing to me was that although race had a strong positive correlation, there was another factor which appeared to be even more important.

Since it was not the factor I was studying, I didn't make the statistical comparison but it soon became obvious that the rural counties in Florida had much lower homicide rates. For instance I noted that Gadsden County which has the highest Black percentage and is also a poor county, was not even close to the highest murder rate.

143 posted on 02/03/2005 6:58:33 PM PST by yarddog
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