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Me_Melissa t1_iu4pe0z wrote

Doesn't what you say imply that the poor in blue states are more well-behaved and less exploitative than the poor in red states?

What would you guess to be a reason for that?

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685327593 t1_iu4ruem wrote

The reason is very obvious, but we're not supposed to talk about it on Reddit.

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Me_Melissa t1_iu55z8m wrote

/u/terrykrohe would it be possible to do one plotting percentage of impoverished population that's black people against incarceration categorized by R and D?

Our boy here has a hypothesis for a cause of incarceration and surely the correlations for the "obvious explanation" will be stronger than the correlations for the alleged Effect of political affiliation.

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terrykrohe OP t1_iu5f3ot wrote

I found data from the StLouis Fed Reserve and from the sentencing project source ... I will work something up

It would be a plot of black/white income ratio VS black/white incarceration ratio using the Rep/Dem state differentiation.

... thanks for the suggestion – it should be interesting

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