ABSTRACT
The multivariate regression for the Donald Trump states for the European-American mortality rate included the percent of adults with college or higher degrees in 2000 and social capital, and yielded an R-square of 0.73. In the Trump system, only the percent of adults with college or higher degrees in 2000 and 2011–2014 associated with the mortality rate of African-Americans. The Clinton states include several with large populations of non-European-Americans, such as Hawaii, New York, Virginia, and Nevada. Even for African-Americans, the associations of mortality rate with socioeconomic (SE) factors are stronger in the Trump system than in the Clinton system, as measured by R-square. The chapter considers 2015 life expectancy at the state level for the whole population and for men and women separately. Populations with deleterious environments suffer from high incidences of early deaths and low life expectancies. Women’s life expectancy in the Clinton states has fewer and weaker ties to SE factors than that of men.
