- Yankeedom
- New Netherland
- The Midlands
- Tidewater
- Greater Appalachia
- Deep South
- El Norte
- The Left Coast
- The Far West
- New France
- First Nation
I think his simple-majority approach to grouping the counties is a bit of a problem. How different would this map look if he left counties white when there was less than an 80% dominance in the trends he is studying?
I would also like to see what happened to the map if he counted suicides along with murders. Recent articles on suicide rates between various US populations has suggested that some homicides are in fact suicidal reckless behavior. It's hard to tease out the "suicide by by homicide" behavior, but adding the suicides in with the homicides might cancel out this effect.
It's an interesting paradigm that bears further investigation. Something to think about in upcoming elections.
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