Life expectancy

Ok, since you apparently didn't read it, the answer was given in post 14. White population, African American population, Latino population. Do I really need to tell you which map goes with each population? Is it really that complicated? No racism. Just facts from the census. I suppose racism is your go-to answer? Seems about right for you. Typical nutcase that just screams racist racist racist at every opportunity, even at people he doesn't know. You've certainly deleted more "drunk" posts than anyone else I've ever seen, where you go on some whack rant. Do you think life habits don't affect life expectancy? really? Are you that far into denial of reality?

 

Well, ok. The thread was started with the topic of life expectancy, inspired by a Newsweek analysis of life expectancy by state and political party control by state.

Hayslayer has contributed some maps that reflect ethnicity proportions by county.

I wonder if there's a source that has the life expectancy down to county level. Failing that, if the raw data from the ethnicity graphs are available, it would be straightforward to aggregate them into per-state figures.

Someone could feed the life expectancy numbers into an analysis-of-variance routine with both the party control and the ethnicity figures as possible influences, and compare the strength-of-influence estimates that come out. There might be some other potential influences worth also including, like socioeconomic status.

I'm not sure I'm smart enough to draw those kinds of conclusions just by gazing at one set of pretty maps showing one of the proposed factors. Maybe if they could be overlaid with similar pretty maps of party control and of life expectancy....

 

no wonder paul gets frustrated

 

Just a google search (for example: Hispanic life expectancy compared to white) shows average life expectancy of latinos/hispanics is ~1 year longer than white, and provides several explanations including lifestyle and social differences and even the effect of 'healthier' immigrants vs 'less healthy' staying in their home country. Similar to general health of military members being better due to the initial selection process. The same search for black shows life expectancy is ~5 years less than white.

For the sake of simplicity, overall life expectancy of a state's population is just math and "-5" has a significant effect.

 

To your point... Worldometer's latest data: http://www.worldometers.info/demographics/life-expectancy/ ranks the US at #48. And here are the top 19:

 

interesting that females live longer...

 

this discussion led me here: massachusetts-ranks-2nd-in-nation-for-life-expectancy-but-massive-gaps-remain-experts-say
lifestyle plays a big part in it, plus education and work

 

Walking through Walmart this morning to get some more spaghetti noodles, passed by a 6 pack of doughnuts, for $1.69 CDN.

 

oh, i used to love donuts, until they put me on statins

 

Anyone notice any change in your personality on the statins? I heard that's a thing?

 

I think it makes you sensitive to gen3 rattling noises.

 

What era is that Bob?

 

that's an amazing pic, especially for a north easterner. i remember going out to california in the 80's, and reading about the cowboys and indians as late as the early 1900's, and they violence and troubles that were still going on then. it was an education i didn't get in school, we were focused on communism

 

idk, where do you go from crazy?

 

A 1948 photo with him being 98 years old. His face, etched with nearly a century of sun, dust, and grit,= born in 1850
At just eight years old, he witnessed the murder of his father at the hands of former Confederate guerrillas

Yet, the Civil War started in April 1861...............

Did the media also totally suck in the mid 1900's or am I missing something....

 

I'm still perplexed, though. If he was 98 in 1948, he was born in 1850. If he was 8 when his father was murdered, that happened in 1858. The secessionist states began seceding two years later, in 1860, and they formally declared themselves the Confederate States in 1861. So it puzzles me how someone can be called a "former Confederate" three years before he could first have been a Confederate.

Is something just wrong with the dates? Or was the murderer, maybe, someone who had taken part in guerrilla actions a couple years before any state actually seceded?

Edit: ok, wait, I got it. The text says "in this powerful 1948 photo" but that wasn't taken when he was 98. He was 98 ten years later, when he died, as Bob wrote, in 1958.

Re-edit: ok, wait again, I don't got it. The photo caption does say he was 98 then. And that also seems to be the sense of Bob's first sentence. Was he 108 when he died?

 

Back then there were people who always lived here and they used to call these people the pale ones with a forked tongue. As in they never told the truth about nothing, especially when it came to stealing people's land.