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Originally Posted by Patriam1066
(Post 2492221)
You'd need to find statistics for "rednecks" to prove your point. Utah is the healthiest state in the union and overwhelmingly white and republican
Here's some more useful info for who is costing me more in healthcare. I say me since I'm confident you're in grad school and have never worked a day in your life
http://www.diabetes.org/diabetes-basics/statistics/
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Yea if you ran a multivariate statistical analysis comparing political affiliation to obesity you'd probably find little to no correlation. My two maps weren't meant to be that rigorous, but i do think it plays to people's prejudices about the South and Midwest vs. New England and the West. Which of those regions do you think is fatter and more conservative?
I'm assuming this is what you're referring to:
http://i.imgur.com/I6eIoGk.jpg
As you continually try to pin obesity-related health costs on minorities, let me again remind you that Native Americans are an absolutely minuscule segment of the population. Blacks and Hispanics, while having twice the rate of diabetes (some of which is genetic), are not even half the population of whites (13% and 17% respectively).
So at the end of the day, fat white people with fat-related diabetes are costing me more in healthcare. Blacks and Hispanics are costing me proportionately more, but you can write off some of that due to poverty, genetic predisposition, and good old fashioned racial prejudice.
And I guess people who go to grad school don't work hard?? lol
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