Democrat wins Governor of Louisianna?!

[Drako]

Republicanism looks like a self solving problem.

So it looks like it's the Black Republicans that are the problem. :hmm:

 

[theeedude]

So it looks like it's the Black Republicans that are the problem. :hmm:

Not really a strong correlation there. Look at Oklahoma, West Virginia, and Kentucky.

 

[Svnla]

Not really relevant. I meant obesity and poverty are both independent negative effects on life expectancy, not that poverty makes people fat. (although in the US it seems to) In the US the south is the poorest region, so a lower life expectancy there is to be expected due to that.



So what? Even ignoring how Southern Democrats became Southern Republicans without substantially changing their ideology, Southern Republicans have been blocking the expansion of medical services in their states for years. You'd have to do some more sophisticated analysis to see exactly what the impact of that is, but certainly you can see how it stands to reason that blocking that access is likely to decrease life expectancy, no?

Being poor is not an excuse.

Let ask any MDs that:

a) being poor or b)being overly fat (not just a bit curvy/chubby) with no exercise and daily diet with massive fried fat foods plus high number of sugary high calorie drinks. Which one will be very bad (or worse) for a person's health and lifespan.

I am willing to bet they will pick b.

Again, you and other posters have NOT post good metrics/measurements about the South when they were under the Democrats rule for years. The multiple issues/problems of bad health/short lifespan/poor/etc. have been going on for years/decades, not just pop up recently because Republican governors did not expanse Medicare/aid.

 

[BxgJ]

Wouldn't need it if LA got their fare share of offshore oil revenue like every other state does.

Not to mention that we supply the nation with roughly 1/3 of it's energy and the leading producer of the nations domestic oil and a metric shitton of the nations natural gas.

We are the leading provider of federal revenue from offshore oil production, which every other state gets a generous cut of but LA gets boned on and I bet that doesn't go into the calculations on how much LA sends to the Federal government.

The LOOP, which happens to be the only deepwater port in that country that supertankers can dock at and offload their crude. Over a million barrels of oil a day flow through it.

We are also first or second (can't remember) in refinery capacity.

So if yall want to kick us out then by all means do so, we will be just fine. Hell we'd have the rest of the nation over a barrel (literally) and we'd be rolling in dough.

Texas is first. Though I thought it was first in both oil and natural gas too.... Did that change recently, or is there something not accounted for in most rankings?

edit - first link I found, for an example

http://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/pet_crd_crpdn_adc_mbblpd_a.htm