reagansghost
eternal
I never get tired of circulating this.
The Forces Driving Middle-Aged White People's 'Deaths Of Despair'
https://www.npr.org/sections/health...g-middle-aged-white-peoples-deaths-of-despair
this is interesting......
Deaton: Hispanics [have always had lower mortality rates] than whites. It's a bit of a puzzle that's not fully resolved, to put it mildly. It's always been true that mortality rates have been higher and life expectancy shorter for African-Americans than for whites. What is happening now is that gap is closing and, for some groups, it's actually crossed. What we see in the new work is if you compare whites with a high school degree or less, at least their mortality rates are now higher than mortality rates for African-Americans as a whole. If you compare whites with a high school degree or less with blacks with a high school degree or less, their mortality rates have converged. It's as if poorly educated whites have now taken over from blacks as the lowest rung of society in terms of mortality rates.
.....African-Americans are still treated like 3d class citizens in general, and yet poorly educated whites have rival them in mortality rates due to a surge in suicide
VERY interesting...plus the fact the uneducated whites starting pulling the trigger more often with the advent of the Tea Party kooks in 2010