Northern New England and the Northern Rockies/Great Plains areas don’t really have violent hoods like how the other states do. That in itself is a major mortality risk for black people, who are often the victims there. Another possibility might be access to food in those areas. Black people in those areas also tend to know how to hunt or farm, or they don’t have the same worries about food deserts as a black person in the South or an inner city might. That means more nutritious food and less processed junk foods in their diet.
They also are sparsely populated by black people, so a few of them that are living well will make a significant change to the rates.
Although, I have 0 idea why Nebraska is so negative.
Montana has less than **7,000** black people…in the entire state. 0.6% of the population. The state is 89% white.
This is like saying my emissions from private jet travel is 0 lmao
A different map!
It’s the US with data about something but the colours are in different places!
😲😲😲
I wonder what this would look like without homicides included.
the blue states here are obviously noise
Data for DC isn’t shown and it’s not looking good.
Wow, it looks like the safest place for black people is among white republicans. Who knew?
Black and Hispanic women live longer than white men. The difference in life expectancy is stark when comparing women to men. The most profound difference is comparing white women to black men when the life expectancy gap is the highest.
My guess is that a higher percentage of black people moved to those states specifically for jobs and tend to be higher income.
Wisconsin what’s going on…
Edit: German here, thanks for the info! Visually speaking, Milwaukee really looked like a place I’d feel at home in so that’s really sad to hear. Damn.
What is going on in Wisconsin
Edit: and Rhode Island
There are so few Black people in Montana, and the only time I cross paths with them are in the cities near our handful of full sized hospitals. But I think the data set is so small its uninformative.
After looking at this map I’m super curious how much of this comes from white people being less concentrated in cities
California being worse than literally every southern state
The question is, does the gap grow because 1 thing is higher or lower than usual? or both sides are going to 2 different directions? like, who’s at fault for the gap?
So, I’m pretty sure I can explain this one.
The blue states are all relatively or very rural. Also, they are the furthest away from the core of the southeast (at least by difficulty of travel, boats helped a lot prior to automobiles) and have an extremely different climate.
Only richer people could afford to move there. Lots of people from the south wouldn’t event want to move there. So, the black people in those states were probably more wealthy to begin with and most likely chose to move there because of a significant economic opportunity. No one in Georgia moves to Montana to be a janitor.
There’s also the fact that rural life is dangerous. Accidents, exposure to chemicals, and lack of access to healthcare all shorten life expectancy.
So, you have factors lowering life expectancy for white people and massively raising it for black people.
Honestly the low numbers of bank people in Montana etc. really set things up for a Spiders Georg situation.
The difference in rates around Montana is interesting. There’s likely only a few tens of thousands of black people there, so i wonder what’s helping them out? Maybe the white people in the area die sooner than elsewhere. It would be interesting to see each race independently as well.
Does it correlate to urban areas? I’d be interested if you did a county wide assessment if that would change. This is a classic example of a modifiable area unit problem.
Is there a correlation between the gap and urban gun violence?
Can we get a side-by-side with a map of the Wealth Gap between White and Black Americans please?
I’m curious how many of the states that are worse are due to black people having worse outcomes vs white people having better outcomes. For example NJ looks pretty bad, compared to Mississippi, but how much of that is because white people in NJ live significantly longer than white people in Mississippi.
What’s going on in New England? 3 numbers for 6 states?
Two thoughts:
1. Black people who choose to live in Montana or Maine are probably different from average black people in some way.
2. Some areas where there is high black mortality also have high white mortality.
I guess both black people in Montana are doing great!
black northerners outliving white northerners is unexpected and interesting…
what’s going on in Wisconsin???
Wisconsin also has the most disproportionate black:white ratio in its prisons.
Is there a reason that black Americans in the Dakotas/Montana/Idaho live longer than whites in those states while in the rest of the country it’s the opposite? Off the top of my head I’d say its because black people who move there, move there for the outdoor lifestyle, but I’m white and English so what do I know?
So, this will certainly make people think that black Americans aren’t receiving the same quality medical care as white Americans, but the main difference is the huge amount of unfortunate health issues that African Americans have in much higher numbers based on their genetics. Diabetes is one of the main ones.
I’m guessing the level of segregation in Wisconsin is also very high, focused mainly in Milwaukee. But racism is over folks! Nothing to see here!
Idaho with the absolute stunner
I suppose north Idaho may look a lot different than Boise
![[OC] Life Expectancy Gap between White and Black Americans](https://www.europesays.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/m9jp6i3wsitf1-1240x1024.png)
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Very few black people in the blue states
Source Data. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_health_in_the_United_States#Life_expectancy
Northern New England and the Northern Rockies/Great Plains areas don’t really have violent hoods like how the other states do. That in itself is a major mortality risk for black people, who are often the victims there. Another possibility might be access to food in those areas. Black people in those areas also tend to know how to hunt or farm, or they don’t have the same worries about food deserts as a black person in the South or an inner city might. That means more nutritious food and less processed junk foods in their diet.
They also are sparsely populated by black people, so a few of them that are living well will make a significant change to the rates.
Although, I have 0 idea why Nebraska is so negative.
Montana has less than **7,000** black people…in the entire state. 0.6% of the population. The state is 89% white.
This is like saying my emissions from private jet travel is 0 lmao
A different map!
It’s the US with data about something but the colours are in different places!
😲😲😲
I wonder what this would look like without homicides included.
the blue states here are obviously noise
Data for DC isn’t shown and it’s not looking good.
Wow, it looks like the safest place for black people is among white republicans. Who knew?
Black and Hispanic women live longer than white men. The difference in life expectancy is stark when comparing women to men. The most profound difference is comparing white women to black men when the life expectancy gap is the highest.
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6335a8.htm
Is that really a racial thing or a poverty thing
My guess is that a higher percentage of black people moved to those states specifically for jobs and tend to be higher income.
Wisconsin what’s going on…
Edit: German here, thanks for the info! Visually speaking, Milwaukee really looked like a place I’d feel at home in so that’s really sad to hear. Damn.
What is going on in Wisconsin
Edit: and Rhode Island
There are so few Black people in Montana, and the only time I cross paths with them are in the cities near our handful of full sized hospitals. But I think the data set is so small its uninformative.
After looking at this map I’m super curious how much of this comes from white people being less concentrated in cities
California being worse than literally every southern state
The question is, does the gap grow because 1 thing is higher or lower than usual? or both sides are going to 2 different directions? like, who’s at fault for the gap?
So, I’m pretty sure I can explain this one.
The blue states are all relatively or very rural. Also, they are the furthest away from the core of the southeast (at least by difficulty of travel, boats helped a lot prior to automobiles) and have an extremely different climate.
Only richer people could afford to move there. Lots of people from the south wouldn’t event want to move there. So, the black people in those states were probably more wealthy to begin with and most likely chose to move there because of a significant economic opportunity. No one in Georgia moves to Montana to be a janitor.
There’s also the fact that rural life is dangerous. Accidents, exposure to chemicals, and lack of access to healthcare all shorten life expectancy.
So, you have factors lowering life expectancy for white people and massively raising it for black people.
Honestly the low numbers of bank people in Montana etc. really set things up for a Spiders Georg situation.
The difference in rates around Montana is interesting. There’s likely only a few tens of thousands of black people there, so i wonder what’s helping them out? Maybe the white people in the area die sooner than elsewhere. It would be interesting to see each race independently as well.
Does it correlate to urban areas? I’d be interested if you did a county wide assessment if that would change. This is a classic example of a modifiable area unit problem.
Is there a correlation between the gap and urban gun violence?
Can we get a side-by-side with a map of the Wealth Gap between White and Black Americans please?
I’m curious how many of the states that are worse are due to black people having worse outcomes vs white people having better outcomes. For example NJ looks pretty bad, compared to Mississippi, but how much of that is because white people in NJ live significantly longer than white people in Mississippi.
What’s going on in New England? 3 numbers for 6 states?
Two thoughts:
1. Black people who choose to live in Montana or Maine are probably different from average black people in some way.
2. Some areas where there is high black mortality also have high white mortality.
I guess both black people in Montana are doing great!
black northerners outliving white northerners is unexpected and interesting…
what’s going on in Wisconsin???
Wisconsin also has the most disproportionate black:white ratio in its prisons.
Is there a reason that black Americans in the Dakotas/Montana/Idaho live longer than whites in those states while in the rest of the country it’s the opposite? Off the top of my head I’d say its because black people who move there, move there for the outdoor lifestyle, but I’m white and English so what do I know?
So, this will certainly make people think that black Americans aren’t receiving the same quality medical care as white Americans, but the main difference is the huge amount of unfortunate health issues that African Americans have in much higher numbers based on their genetics. Diabetes is one of the main ones.
I’m guessing the level of segregation in Wisconsin is also very high, focused mainly in Milwaukee. But racism is over folks! Nothing to see here!
Idaho with the absolute stunner
I suppose north Idaho may look a lot different than Boise
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