states with high percentage of minorities and or high rates of poverty have high murder rates.
I do not think you can support that statement. I do not see the correlation with poverty and high murder rates. Many rural areas have high poverty rates and low murder rates.
I see high correlations with culture and murder rates, but not with poverty and murder rates. Cultural Japanese in the United States (when we kept these statistics) have murder rates slightly less than Japanese in Japan.
So, if you will show me some areas that are *not* made up of minorities, are poor, and have high murder rates, I would like to look at the data.
Black urban inner cities are rife with crime and poverty. Click on the link for a listing of cities. Take a look at those like Chicago, DC, New Orleans,Houston, Philidelpia, Detroit, Cleveland, Oakland, St. Louis etc. These numbers are from Law Enforcement, Courts, and Prisons U.S. Census Bureau, Statistical Abstract of the United States: 2012 Cut and paste the URL to see full data
The data is there, go for it. www.census.gov/compendia/statab/2012/tables/12s0309.pdf
Past this link for the top ten dangerous cities.
http://www.forbes.com/pictures/mlj45jggj/1-detroit/