Gun Violence Is Actually Worse In Red States

Interesting piece from Politico on the deep historical and cultural divides between US regions. Not sure exactly where the headline is coming from, since the article talks more about regions than about actual states, but it's an interesting read. Also, it is really that surprising?

Gun Violence Is Actually Worse in Red States. It’s Not Even Close.

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America’s regions are poles apart when it comes to gun deaths and the cultural and ideological forces that drive them.

tl;dr: different regions of the United States were colonised by people with very different ethnographic, economic, religious and ideological opinions. The Puritans of New England, for example, valued collectivism whereas the Scots-Irish settlers of the Appalachians fiercely defended their independence. These differences are reflected in the modern patterns of gun violence across the country.

Thoughts? Opinions?

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