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Is your claim that the patronizing tone is the source of or a possible solution to the South’s problems? Or is this a, “because the coasts are patronizing, we don’t need to discuss these issues.” Seems like the latter to me but I’d be interested to hear if it’s the former.
Correlation with obesity rate seems stronger than anything else. And alcoholism in certain counties.
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I had a co-worker whose neighbor died recently not all that much after his 40th birthday from some combination of smoking, occupational exposure to construction debris/chemicals, and long covid. He was on the list for a lung transplant for a bit, but no one seemed to believe that gave him any chance, and it did not. Perhaps if he had not smoked, worn proper PPE when needed, and gotten a covid vaccine, he would be ali…
When everyone sh*ts on your culture 24/7/365 for decades and decades, it gets pretty hard to separate the condescension from the genuinely good advice.
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I had a co-worker whose neighbor died recently not all that much after his 40th birthday from some combination of smoking, occupational exposure to construction debris/chemicals, and long covid. He was on the list for a lung transplant for a bit, but no one seemed to believe that gave him any chance, and it did not. Perhaps if he had not smoked, worn proper PPE when needed, and gotten a covid vaccine, he would be ali…
When everyone sh*ts on your culture 24/7/365 for decades and decades, it gets pretty hard to separate the condescension from the genuinely good advice.
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Having half my extended family in the rural South, they don't often do much to offset that impression. There are nice ones and mean ones, but none of them really have their lives together and there's obvious stuff they could be doing, like cutting sugar consumption in half (so many diabetics). One of my uncles died of complications from willfully unmanaged diabetes. His foot was literally rotting off one toe at a tim…
Thank you for illustrating my point. Yeesh.
My experiences are just anecdotal evidence that supports the objective stats.
Respect is earned, and sometimes, when lots of people tell you you're wrong, it's useful to have the humility to consider they might be right.
My sense is that there is a combination of culture and poverty that is causing this gap to occur. Poverty doesn't seem to be the sole cause IMO (although it's probably the biggest factor) because white people and asian people experience similar levels of poverty but asians live way longer.
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Is your claim that the patronizing tone is the source of or a possible solution to the South’s problems? Or is this a, “because the coasts are patronizing, we don’t need to discuss these issues.” Seems like the latter to me but I’d be interested to hear if it’s the former.
“You made your bed, now lay in it” is neither constructive nor effective in changing minds.
I have never heard any proposal from the patronizing coastal elites to cut off funding for Southern welfare states.
The colorbar is "clearly" picked to make things more dramatic: the "middle" isn't centered (red part is longer), each end has a sizable chunk that basically has the same dark color.
Also isn't the dominant factors simply poverty? One of course can go further and discuss why these regions are poorer (which IMO is history), but the direct cause of low life expectancy variation in the US is pretty clear to me to be poverty than secondary things like life choices and/or policies.
OTOH, the fact the US as a whole is significantly lower than many other developed countries is something more interesting.