UTopiAH. This is Part of a series for comparing census based life expectancy and death rate tables, ranking states by how long we live, from 1960 to 2015. Included are medical conditions rating Utah’s #1 health rankings. After 2012, state rankings are now correlated to voting in the 2012 and 2016 presidential elections, with Blue states on top, and Red states assigned to the bottom. Utopia is Sir Thomas More’s (1516) perfect place to live, and with a slight variation in spelling, perfectly describes Utah.

Part 17.   State rankings sorted by age adjusted death rates, for all causes of death, and divided between 2016 Presidential election Blue and Red states.

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For fifty years, state ranking of life expectancy, was based on the census taken every ten years. States were rank ordered based on the longevity of their residents’ lives. Between 2009 and 2012, the former method was renamed the CRUDE rate, and a new method was adopted called the AGE-ADJUSTED rate.   The table below shows how Age-adjusted rate worked to favor Blue state longevity and death rates. that Hawaii has the longest life expectancy and that Utah had dropped out of the top quintile, plunged to 13th, citing the year 2014.   California had climbed from 32nd to 3rd in 24 years, from 1990 to 2014, quite an accomplishment for California.

Does state ranking of life expectancy have significant political implications? Someone must think so. It also happens, that the 11 healthiest states, as reported by MSN.com, and as of 2014 (not reported until 2018), just so happened to have all voted Blue in the 2016 election (over half of the 20 BLUE states that did so vote Blue). The state ranking death rate list was compiled in 2017 and 2018, after the election results were in.   These 11 Blue states all have legalized marijuana (29 states listed, 21 have not legalized).   The first Red state, as to longest life expectancy, after the 2016 election, was North Dakota at 12th longest life expectancy, followed in 13th place by Utah. This supposed ranking of life expectancy longevity has been picked up by Wikipedia, 24/7 Wall St.

Statistically, the 2/5ths states (20 of 50) voting Blue in 2016 should have been randomly spread thru the life expectancy table as follows – 4 states in the top quintile (top 10), and 4 in each of the rest of the quintiles, (to wit, 4 states in the ranks 1 to 10, 4 in the ranks from 11 to 20, 4 from 21 to 30, 4 from 31 to 40, and 4 from 41 to 50). Likewise, if random placement applied the Red states, (30 of 50) the Red states would have had 6 Red states in each quintile. Election results, red and blue, in past census longevity results are in other Parts in this series. It would sort of be like putting 20 Blue marbles in a jar with 30 Red marbles, then pulling them out one by one, your first 11 marbles should be 4 Blue, and 7 Red.   As you take out more Blue marbles, the ratio of remaining Red marbles increases, so if you have pulled 10 Blue marbles out, the chance of pulling a blue marble out with 10 blue marbles and 30 Red marbles remaining, is about one in four (10 of 40). Or, imagine a lottery ticket where the first eleven numbers have to be from the pool of 50, selected at random. Or roulette with 30 red and 20 blue (instead of black) slots? I think roulette has only 36 slots, not 50, but the concept is the same. What are the chances of covering Blue 11 times in a row, but filling up each Blue slot as it is taken, so it cannot be used again? Or put another way, I think the odds of the top eleven States in longevity being all blue are less than one in six hundred and fifty thousand (650,000). This is far beyond coincidence.   The state rankings must be specifically correlated to the Election 2016 results.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr66/nvsr66_06.pdf

Table 12. Number of deaths, death rates, and age-adjusted death rates for major causes of death: United States, each state, p. 49

National Vital Statistics Reports, Vol. 66, No. 6, November 27, 2017 49

All causes Sorted by Age- adjusted population – column E

Number Rate1

Rates per 100,000 population; age-adjusted rates per 100,000 U.S. standard population; see Technical Notes. Codes in parentheses after causes of death are categories of the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD–10). The asterisks (*) preceding cause-of-death codes indicate they are not part of ICD–10; see Technical Notes]

ALL CAUSES – disease Mortality by state
Column I- State- Republican RedE Age Adjusted population death rates NVSR 27 Nov 2017Column J – State Democratic – Blue

2016 Presidential election Red State versus Blue State – Age Adjusted, Sorted by Column E

Column I- State- Republican RedE Age Adjusted population death rates per 100,000 National Vital Statistics Reports, 27 Nov 2017Column J – State Democratic – Blue
588.2Hawaii
621.6California
644New York
653.8Minnesota
656.1Connecticut
Florida662.9
665Colorado
666New Jersey
Arizona671.8
684.8Massachusetts
687.4Washington
North Dakota696.8
705.7Maryland
Utah712.1
714.7Vermont
South Dakota715.4
Wisconsin715.9
720.6New Hampshire
721.6Virginia
721.9Rhode Island
722.3Oregon
Iowa724.6
Idaho727.8
728,3Illinois
United States2733.1
Nebraska739.2
741.5Delaware
741.5New Mexico
Texas745
Alaska747.4
Wyoming748.3
748.6District of Columbia
757.2Nevada
Montana762.7
Pennsylvania768.3
Kansas774.1
783.5Maine
Michigan784.4
North Carolina789.9
Georgia808.1
Missouri816.9
Ohio828.4
Indiana833.9
South Carolina840
Louisiana874.2
Tennessee886.4
Arkansas901.8
Oklahoma904.3
Alabama924.5
Kentucky924.7
West Virginia943.4
Mississippi963.7

50 National Vital Statistics Reports, Vol. 66, No. 6, November 27, 2017

Table 12. Number of deaths, death rates, and age-adjusted death rates for major causes of death: United States, each state, Puerto

Rico, Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and Northern Marianas, 2015—Con.

[Rates per 100,000 population; age-adjusted rates per 100,000 U.S. standard population; see Technical Notes. Codes in parentheses after causes of death are categories of the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD–10). The asterisks (*) preceding cause-of-death codes indicate they are not part of ICD–10; see Technical Notes]

Life expectancy: The expected average number of years of life remaining at a given age. It is denoted by ex , which means the average number of subsequent years of life for someone now aged x. Life expectancy estimates for 2015 are based on a methodology first implemented with 2008 final mortality data (4). Life expectancies for 2014 were revised using updated Medicare data; therefore, figures may differ from those previously published (5).

Data source and methods

The data shown in this report reflect information collected by NCHS for 2014 and 2015 from death certificates filed in all 50 states and the District of Columbia and compiled into national data known as the National Vital Statistics System. Death rates shown in this report are calculated based on postcensal population estimates as of July 1, 2014, and July 1, 2015, which are consistent with the April 1, 2010, census. Differences between death rates were evaluated using a two-tailed z test.

National Center for Health Statistics

The above NVSS explains that the longevity was changed in 2008, to favor Blue state over Red states.

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