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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 reduction]] 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. An let's not forget that the south lost the American civil war and much of the war was fought on southern soil.  

::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 reduction]] 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.  

 

::Also, you have the rural/urban income divide of today's information economy and much of the south is rural. An let's not forget that the south lost the American civil war and much of the war was fought on southern soil.  

::In addition, we know that irreligion has a deleterious effect on society and we have an enormous amount of data to support this matter (see: [[Atheism statistics]]).  

::In addition, we know that irreligion has a deleterious effect on society and we have an enormous amount of data to support this matter (see: [[Atheism statistics]]).  

::The glaring mistake you are making here is making an overly simplistic view of the data and failing to recognize that we live in a multiple variable world. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] ([[User talk:Conservative|talk]]) 19:51, 5 May 2017 (EDT)

::The glaring mistake you are making here is making an overly simplistic view of the data and failing to recognize that we live in a multiple variable world. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] ([[User talk:Conservative|talk]]) 19:51, 5 May 2017 (EDT)