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by tbenst 4621 days ago
On first glance, I was shocked by how similar it looked to the electoral map from Presidential elections. 39/50 states in this chart are the correct color for the 2012 electoral map. For fun, I then took the correlation of the mortality rate and percentage of votes for Romney for each state and got at 49% correlation.

It goes without saying that correlation != causation and I do not mean this as a political statement, rather a quantification of this curious resemblance.

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Put another way, different mortality causes could be reflected in different political needs.