Want a Shorter Life? Live in a Pro-Trump State.

The Federal Government, or the Deep State, whichever you want to call it, has just published the data on life expectancy and to nobody’s great surprise, because of the Covid-19 Pandemic, the average number of years that an American will live who was born in 2020 has gone down by nearly one year.

The drop in life expectancy has basically erased two decades of increasing longevity, and it’s not clear how, long it will take us to bring our lifetime numbers back up to where they used to be.

On the other hand, and this is a very important other hand, the data may reflect the overall situation, but everything changes when you filter the numbers through specific states.

The map above, based on numbers which you can download here, show some very clear disparities from state to state and counties within specific states. But the bottom line is that if you live in one of the thirteen states which comprise the Old Confederacy, with the exception of Virginia, there’s a good chance that you might have a life expectancy which is as much as twenty years shorter than the lifetime you might have in one of the other, non-Confederate states.

So, for example, I live in Massachusetts, where the life expectancy is 79.0 years. If I were a resident of Mississippi, my life expectancy on average would be 70 years…