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.