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by jka 1469 days ago
"In this study, in which we linked U.S. mortality and election data from 2001 to 2019, people in counties that voted for Republican presidential candidates were more like to die prematurely than those in counties that voted for Democratic candidates, and the gap has grown sixfold over the last two decades. We found similar results when we looked only at counties that voted for one party’s candidate throughout that period, as well as when we used state election data for governors."

And a link to the paper ("Political environment and mortality rates in the United States, 2001-19: population based cross sectional analysis") that the article describes: https://www.bmj.com/content/377/bmj-2021-069308
1 comments
robotblake 1469 days ago
Of specific note I found this quote very alarming

> There was no single cause of death driving this lethal wedge: The death rate due to all 10 of the most common causes of death has widened between Republican and Democratic areas.

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esotericimpl 1469 days ago
This shouldn't be surprising 70% of the GDP output of the USA are from counties won by Biden.

Wealthier people live longer than poor people.

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/the-avenue/2020/11/09/biden-v...

The current republican party provides a hate machine with no actual solutions other than tax cuts for the rich and culture war for the rubes.

All that is left for the Red counties is anger and despair delivered nightly via Fox news and the right wing lie machine.

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mensetmanusman 1468 days ago
A large percentage of the 70% GDP is the <1% megacorps/billionaires though, so it’s a complicated picture. Cities have huge inequality.
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Mountain_Skies 1469 days ago
Surely the solution is for Democrats to force themselves on Republicans, who should accept this imposition of control for their own good.
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otter-rock 1469 days ago
The author specifically said that the solution is to find a less partisan approach. Who are you arguing with?
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wolverine876 1469 days ago
With the imaginary Democrats and liberals strawpeople that the reactionary media tells everyone about (tip: meet some actual Democrats and liberals; they have nothing to do with that BS).
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