2001 study: white mortality in U.S. metropolitan areas is a function of the size of the local black population
23rd April 2011
So relax, Portland.
The study was set to explore the correlation between income inequality and mortality, but the authors found little evidence of this correlation. Instead they found that racial composition plays a key role in mortality rates. “Specifically, they show that white mortality rates are higher in states and MSA’s [“metropolitan statistical area.”] where the black population is a larger fraction of the total.”
I guess Malcolm X was right — black people really don’t like white people.