Poverty explains SOME of the difference, but not the majority of it.

Something else is actually the #1 predictor and we all know what it is but we're not allowed to say it.

Kids get shot every week. These gang bangers have terrible aim. Tons of people just get caught in the crossfire.

At my work we have the local news on every morning. Almost without fail there will be at least one story of a shooting. It's insane. What's more insane is I'll often get heavily downvoted on Reddit for pointing out the violence even though the facts are clear for all to see.

Graphs like this can be extremely deceptive. Long term interest rates are a function of inflation expectations. So the real value of your payments is expected to re reasonable faster when rates are higher. In the long run high inflation times are likely to be the best times to buy a house.. but your early payments will definitely sting.

This is why all those posts about how much less houses used to cost need to be taken with a grain of salt. House prices are so high in large part because interest rates were so low for so long.

Why should people get preferred treatment because they're physically closer? We should have a points system like most other 1st world countries.

People are against ILLEGAL immigration. Most people support legal immigration.

Non-hispanic whites would be 3rd, blacks would be 8th and Asians would be way down the list.

There's a massive difference between "immigration" and "illegal immigration". Please don't conflate the two.

The majority of US Latinos are white.

You're missing the point. Everyone in the US is an American regardless of their race or ethnicity. The fact so many people want to divide us based on these idiotic lines is disgusting.

Nothing "happens". At some point the government will just have to start buying back oil at a massive loss. At this point Biden is just worried about the next month until the election, after that it's irrelevant if oil prices rise.

The Fed doesn't control the SPR, the President does.

It wouldn't change things enough to be visible on a map like this.

Just want to give you props for actually using REAL GDP and not nominal GDP. Way too many people here posting nominal values that misrepresent the reality of the situation.

Most of the places building new fossil fuel plants are the ones with LOW emissions in the past. That's literally my whole point.

We can't fix the past, only the future.

Even though 1990 to 2019 is obviously much more relevant than the one starting in 1750 I still object to and cumulative data regarding emissions. What matters is the rate of emissions TODAY. A country that was bad in the past but is cutting emissions now is in a far better place than one with less emissions in the past but building 100 new coal plants.