[OC]. missing persons and drug overdose death rate (compared with suicide rate and life expectancy). – 2020 electionterrykrohe OP t1_j9um4po wrote
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... yeah, there is the thought that 2020 was unique (some 'causative' event) and that, therefore, the data is just 'coincidental" because the non-random, top/bottom Rep/Dem pattern would not be so noticeable
BUT
Mencken did a ranking of the states in 1930 using multiple data sources and multiple metrics and Politico did so in 2014 and there was an 2022 International Economic Review paper doing a 'well-ness' survey ––– all with similar results showing the pattern (05Jan2023 post).
Ninety years, different investigators, different (mostly) metics: same results ...
... go figure
I think you are right: "probably political" ... finding the metrics which would define "political" ... now there is a quest
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