I fled the Trumpocalypse long ago and will never go back.

GOOD.

Not surprised

This LBJ quote came to mind.
The context of one of the most famous statements on race ever attributed to President Johnson, an off-the-cuff observation he made to a young staffer, Bill Moyers, after encountering a display of blatant racism during a political visit to the South. Moyers tells it in the first person:
We were in Tennessee. During the motorcade, he spotted some ugly racial epithets scrawled on signs. Late that night in the hotel, when the local dignitaries had finished the last bottles of bourbon and branch water and departed, he started talking about the racist signs. “I’ll tell you what’s at the bottom of it,” he said. “If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.”

In the blunt vernacular that he loved to use, LBJ was describing what the television pundits of today would probably call the politics of resentment and divisiveness. It is still very much with us.

It's Darwinian.

Not at all surprising; dirt-poor Republican death cultists don't live long. Not when sensible eating habits and exercise are liberal/commie plots.

Not surprised at all.

So, people who don’t believe in affordable health care are dying off faster?

Color me shocked.

Interesting. My thinking is not so much the policies of democratic regions compared to policies of republican regions but it has more to do with the lifestyles and life choices of dems vs repubs.