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I’m a doctor and not sure what to make of this.

They have the mortality rate change...but not the average age of death.

I wonder how many deaths are from lung cancer (40 years ago we mainly saw it in men but now we see it in women) and from diabetes/obesity.

But as a whole, the map is meaningless.

I think if you overlay the long lifespan of Hispanic women with smoking and obesity rates by region the map makes lots of sense. As to the experience of Hispanic women, the causes are unclear: Only the healthy immigrating? Strong social networks?

In my early years I was a peace officer in West TX with the Sheriff's Dept and I'm just drawing off what I observed then and what I observe now as a civilian. If it was a gun shot, knife, domestic, drugs or alcohol related we responded to the ER. My wife is the admissions director at the only hospital in a small West TX county right in the middle of the Permian Basin, she sees everything going into the ER.
In my early years it used to be young to middle aged white females mostly alcohol involved domestics resulting in assaults but rarely fatal. Now we're seeing drug overdoses and again most seem to be white females in that age range, but there has been a notable change in assaults resulting in death and this seems to be allot higher among the Blacks and Hispanics. I'm going to go ahead and lay it out on the table but there is a Muy Macho attitude among Blacks and Hispanics especially when talking about male assault on females that have resulted in deaths and a high rate of Hispanic female deaths resulting from alcohol and driving. It's my opinion that being a Black or Hispanic female in this country has an impact on mortality rates.

“But as a whole, the map is meaningless.”

Or- it means something, but there is no way to have clarity about what that is. And maybe that is the point. The map is an “empty vessel” into which anything useful to advance the Liberal Agenda can be poured and then used to advantage.