[HN Gopher] America's Surprising Partisan Divide on Life Expectancy
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       America's Surprising Partisan Divide on Life Expectancy
        
       Author : pg_1234
       Score  : 12 points
       Date   : 2023-09-03 21:00 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | noughtme wrote:
       | > The geography of U.S. life expectancy -- and the policy
       | environments that determine it -- is the result of differences
       | that are regional, cultural and political
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       | The attribution of all differences in America to political
       | affiliation is a bizarre past time. So many missing confounding
       | variables.
        
       | solarmist wrote:
       | Not surprising as a whole, but really interesting subregions.
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       | Especially the Far West (not to be confused with the Left Coast)
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       | "Far West (pop. 28.7 million) Extreme environment stopped eastern
       | cultures in their path, so settlement largely controlled by
       | distant corporations or federal government via deployment of
       | railroads, dams, irrigation and mines; exploited as an internal
       | colony, with lasting resentments."
        
       | archo wrote:
       | This Article previously Posted and Discussed on HN: (37-comments
       | - 2023-09-02) : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37361070
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       | https://archive.is/vJ2JH
        
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