I'm getting tired of this.
As is well known, the South is more violent than the rest of the country, by some distance. Given the earlier post, the natural thing to do is to put these regional trends into the cross-national comparison and seeÂfor the decade we have, anywayÂhow these large U.S. regions would fare if they were OECD countries. Again, bear in mind that the age-adjustment is not quite comparable.
On his own chart, North Carolina's rate is below Alaska, Maryland, Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada and Illinois. West Virginia's rate is lower than all those, plus Pennsylvania, Oklahoma, California, Indiana, Michigan and Ohio.
But, like everything else that's wrong with America, it's all us stupid hillbillies of the Old Confederacy.
Edit:
Take a look at this map: http://www.guardian....me-map-statistics
T'ain't as obviously a Southern Problem now is it?
