Data from the CDC: 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021

Map of states by party affiliation

Tools used: Google Sheets, Mapchart, Photoshop

Posted by PerAsperaAdMars

14 comments

  1. How is California one of the top life expectancy states, if everything causes cancer in California?

  2. Wait is this saying thats the life expectancy of people born between 2018 and 2021?

  3. Too many confounding factors to make anything of this. E.g., race. Southern states are red, but southern states also have a much higher population of black people, and the unfortunate reality is that black people tend to have shorter lifespans. Also, older people are more conservative and older people were more likely to have their lives cut short by COVID.

  4. This is data that really needs to be county-level not state-level, as its really an urban vs rural relationship more than a political affiliation one. Health and human behavior are driven by local factors more directly than state factors.

  5. I would direct people interested in this map to see [Dwyer-Lindgren et al (2024) “Ten Americas: A Systematic Analysis of Life Expectancy Disparities in the United States” The Lancet 404(10469): p2299-2313.](https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(24)01495-8/fulltext) who make a heroic attempt at disentangling place, race/ethnicity, income, education, and changing life expectancy. The summary chart is here but there’s a lot behind it that’s worth thinking about.

    https://preview.redd.it/x8easicdu1cf1.jpeg?width=1974&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3e6a79a71964b25d981a7acfd1865e24a4f1fe25

  6. Just looking at that map, it seems to correlate with my own observation of the prevalance of smoking in each state.

    I wonder how it correlates with the availability of public health care plans.

  7. Blue states are normally northern and cooler, people generally live longer in cooler climates than hot.

  8. Every single map indicates…we have some issues in the Delta.

    If I were president…I’m starting there with funding, pilot programs …all of it. I’m just taking control of the area til every map of every data point gets back up.

  9. Ya know there is a reddit channel called “people live in cities” where it shows maps that are biased in favor of dense city populations and doesn’t really give any new information.

    there should be a channel that states “maps the show The south and Appalachia are messed up.”

  10. As a color blind person with the most common color combination of color blindness (red-green) I am baffled by the common use of red and green mapping to show data? People who see typical red and green colors- does these colors just look best in contrast or what it the deal? Would more opposite color shades work better anyhow or is this really easy for everyone else to look at the shaded legend and find the right shade on the map?

  11. I’ll never forget the time a right wing intellectual told me that “life expectancy is not a meaningful indicator of the health of a polity or state” because, no joke, a shorter life is evidence that people are closer to Jesus because they’re dying to get to him sooner.

  12. It’s always the south that has the most fucked up statistics. Being hateful doesn’t do shit but keep you poor, stupid, and ready for an early death!

  14. Cool. Lets let all those green states make our national health policy now.

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