Some new maps. Some of the images do not reflect so much good or bad as culture. For example, "Baptists" are in large numbers almost to the Missouri-Iowa state line, which may indicate why Obama won Iowa decisively in 2012 and lost Missouri decisively in 2012. Some of the others relate statistics to pathologies if they are not pathologies themselves:
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...Poverty, low education, diabetes, teen pregnancy, and deaths from child mistreatment seem to go together.
It is hard enough to get a good job with an excellent education -- let alone a substandard education. Diabetes is mostly a consequence of bad eating habits also connected to poverty, and it is easy to see why those with more education are more likely to go onto a good diet. Teen pregnancy often ends formal education, but it would seem that kids with good educations in other respects are more likely to control their sex drives or at least use protection. (I remember one news story in which young women discussed why they got pregnancies that led to abortion clinics; most involved ignorance about sex).
Slavery? All slave states except Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia seem to have statistically poor conditions. .
...Poverty, low education, diabetes, teen pregnancy, and deaths from child mistreatment seem to go together.
It is hard enough to get a good job with an excellent education -- let alone a substandard education. Diabetes is mostly a consequence of bad eating habits also connected to poverty, and it is easy to see why those with more education are more likely to go onto a good diet. Teen pregnancy often ends formal education, but it would seem that kids with good educations in other respects are more likely to control their sex drives or at least use protection. (I remember one news story in which young women discussed why they got pregnancies that led to abortion clinics; most involved ignorance about sex).
Slavery? All slave states except Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia seem to have statistically poor conditions. .
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.