Officially in Australia it's called LOTE (language other than English), but often colloquially refered to as foreign languages. Something similar may apply here

Yep, our welfare agency keeps an Indigenous funeral register and does their best to specify which people belonged to groups where speaking the name of the dead is taboo. It's to help staff when dealing with family members who are asking for money to travel for funerals

I think starting happiness matters here too, there's only so far up (or down) that you can go

I don't have definitive proof like that but observationally, cities are (on average) wealthier and more likely to vote Democrat than rural areas.