There is a correlation between 'deaths of despair' among white people and voters for Trump

[guno]

And they pine for a world that isn't coming back for them


President-elect Donald Trump won his election by appealing to white, often working class voters, in states like Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Florida.

At the same time, premature deaths among white people in the US are on the rise, going in the exact opposite direction to US blacks and Hispanics

The increased mortality rates among whites come from alcohol and drugs — often OxyContin and other opioids — and alcohol, and suicide, among other causes. Those issues have long plagued the states where Trump got a lot of voter support.

It turns out that misery may also have had a tendency to increase voter turnout for Trump, according to Deaton, who won the Nobel prize for economics in 2015.

There is a correlation between 'deaths of despair' among white people and voters for Trump

 

[Sunni Man]

On the other hand, Hillary voters are more likely to die from gun shoots fired by other minority democrat's during robberies and drug territory disputes, or die from self inflicted gun shots to the head area due to loss of the election. ...

 

[AnCap'n_Murica]

On the other hand, Hillary voters are more likely to die from gun shoots fired by other minority democrat's during robberies, or self inflicted gun shots to the head area due to loss of the election. ...

Or to just die suddenly and mysteriously in Fort Marcy Park.