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Re:Geographic ‘hot spots’ for cigarette and firearm deaths i... by ianai on Sunday September 17, 2023 @06:58PM (#37550177)
It’s a correlation but the correlation probably wouldn’t be so high. The north east is plenty dense compared to the south east (iirc). I think this really shows a cultural difference amid population and probably other things.

I’ve outside of this heard the South has in someways never really bounced back from the end of slavery. Could be a kind of cultural scar or lack of “infrastructure”. Like how Lincoln’s reconstruction plans never happened and his successor went a quite different direction.

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Re:Geographic ‘hot spots’ for cigarette and firearm deaths i... by mortureb on Sunday September 17, 2023 @07:38PM (#37550465)
If we’re jumping to conclusions a much simpler explanation would be that Republican led states enact policies that lead to poor health outcomes.
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Re:Geographic ‘hot spots’ for cigarette and firearm deaths i... by pixl97 on Sunday September 17, 2023 @07:26PM (#37550380)
> Could be a kind of cultural scar

At least anecdotally it feels that way.

I moved from one of the states that was totally clear in this map, to eastern Texas when I was younger and the social scars from the civil war still exist and by the way some people talk even to this day, you'ld think the war had ended last year. It was complete insanity to me.

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