No wonder the Right hates sociology and social psychology and tries to defund and destroy it.
A new study analyzed mortality rates in counties across the U.S. between 2010 and 2020, comparing them by what percent of the population was enslaved in 1860. The researchers found that the higher the percentage enslaved 150 years ago, the higher the mortality rate today, even though they controlled for the obvious confounding variables.
And get this:
The researchers also saw signs of ... “backsliding.” According to the new results, racial health disparities were slightly worse in the 2010s than in the 1970s, a trend that has also been found in other studies. Though his study doesn’t delve into why that might be, Galvan interprets the trend as reflecting the “largely temporary” reduction in health disparities during the civil rights era. “That momentum was lost,” he says, “in the 1990s and 2000s.”
The link is from science.org, and worth reading in full.
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