A few years ago I pointed to a paper which surveyed variation in health across the United States as a function of geography. Today Andrew Gelman points to a new map put out by the heath insurance industry. I've placed the two maps side by side below.
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Seems to roughly correlate with this map. 10 points if you can guess what it is without reading the URL.
So, Cecil, are you saying that increased well-being and increased female longevity leads to increased Republican tendencies? ;)
Seems the opposite to me, actually, but that could just be my own bias. :)
The midwest is a bit off but the south is strikingly both red on the election map and grey on the well-being map.
The bottom graph hardly could have been more wrongly color-coded. The gray is too greenish.
The upper midwestern health stats might be even better, because prosperous retirees there migrate out.