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Louisiana has the homicide rate of 10.8 per 100,000 people and while the more nonreligious(and liberal)state, New Hampshire has a homicide rate of only 0.9 per 100,000 people.--[[User:Coolguy|Coolguy]]|[[User talk:Coolguy|talk]]
Louisiana has the homicide rate of 10.8 per 100,000 people and while the more nonreligious(and liberal)state, New Hampshire has a homicide rate of only 0.9 per 100,000 people.--[[User:Coolguy|Coolguy]]|[[User talk:Coolguy|talk]]
:Yes, Louisiana has a high homicide rate, but so do Alaska and Maryland, outside the belt; New Hampshire has a low homicide rate, but so does Iowa, inside the belt.<ref>https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/sosmap/homicide_mortality/homicide.htm</ref> Also, I've never heard any of those other belt terms, only "Bible belt" and "black belt."--[[User:Abcqwe|Abcqwe]] ([[User talk:Abcqwe|talk]]) 19:03, 5 May 2017 (EDT)
:Yes, Louisiana has a high homicide rate, but so do Alaska and Maryland, outside the belt; New Hampshire has a low homicide rate, but so does Iowa, inside the belt.<ref>https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/sosmap/homicide_mortality/homicide.htm</ref> Also, I've never heard any of those other belt terms, only "Bible belt" and "black belt."--[[User:Abcqwe|Abcqwe]] ([[User talk:Abcqwe|talk]]) 19:03, 5 May 2017 (EDT)
::Coolguy, many things are driven by culture/history. African Americans have a large presence in the south due to the history of slavery in the American South. Africa is new on the Christianity block. It takes hundreds of years for a culture to be Christianized. But over time, Christianity dramatically improves the lives of society (see: [[Protestant cultural legacies]] and [[Religion and crime statistics]] and [[Christianity statistics]]. On top of this you have Johnson's war on poverty undermining African-American American families, many years of African-American slavery where black families were broken up and many years of Jim Crow laws. On top of this, you have the rural/urban income divide of today's information economy and much of the south is rural.
::On topic of this, we know that irreligion has a deleterious effect on society and we have an enormous amount of data to support this matter (see: [[Atheism statitistics]]). [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] ([[User talk:Conservative|talk]]) 19:49, 5 May 2017 (EDT)