Emil O W Kirkegaard

Is there more to this than that whites in former slave states have worse outcomes?

I remember that Griffe du Lion post that argued this for incarceration rates. I think for mortality that isn't what's going on, I'm not sure for the rest.

I'm interested in how two waves of selection (moving north in the Great Migration and then back South in recent decades) might have decreased mortality for some Southern blacks, but I'm not sure how you would test that directly.

it's odd that RI & MA rank low in the mortality chart, but CT & NY in the middle. Usually CT & NY aren't that far apart from RI & MA on indicators

I think MA blacks are particularly high performing and RI whites are particularly low performing, but you're right that it's interesting. Is it about *not* having concentrated black poverty (ala Bridgeport/Hartford/Syracuse/Rochester,etc?)