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The report considers five categories — separated into three groups — to calculate the United States Peace Index for 2011. The first group includes rates of violent crimes such as robbery and aggravated assault, as well as the rates of homicide in each state. The second group relates to the institutions used to prevent violence and is measured by the number of police per capita and the number of incarcerated residents per capita. The third includes the availability of small arms.

Batboy2/75 wrote:The key here might be the number of a particular racial demographic in the states with the most violence.

High Velocity Lie-Nap! wrote:

Batboy2/75 wrote:The key here might be the number of a particular racial demographic in the states with the most violence.

All of the peaceful states lack a whole lotta black, of course.

Batboy2/75 wrote:

High Velocity Lie-Nap! wrote:

Batboy2/75 wrote:The key here might be the number of a particular racial demographic in the states with the most violence.

All of the peaceful states lack a whole lotta black, of course.

And don't share an unsecured border with Mexico. An unreported fact is the CA border was secured over decade ago with a border fence that predates the one the Feds fought tooth and nail, not to build along the AZ, NM, and Texas border.

cleaner464 wrote:Southerners have too many guns and they're mostly retarded on top of it?

cleaner464 wrote:Southerners have too many guns and they're mostly retarded on top of it?

Kazuya Mishima wrote:

cleaner464 wrote:Southerners have too many guns and they're mostly retarded on top of it?

Amazingly enough, it's never the redneck good old boy with his hunting rifle who makes the local news for aggravated assault or homicide...it's the schwoogies with the gold teefesus and 9MM.

The south DOES have a serious problem...too many deadbeat, welfare cheating, breeding like roaches, malt liquor drinking niggers.

Nuff said.

Kazuya Mishima wrote:Nuff said.

Testiclaw wrote:

Kazuya Mishima wrote:Nuff said.

Please, please let this mean you're not going to post anymore.

Culture Is Essential
by Peter J. Richerson and Robert Boyd
An excerpt from Not By Genes Alone: How Culture Transformed Human Evolution


The American South has long been more violent than the North. Colorful descriptions of duels, feuds, bushwhackings, and lynchings feature prominently in visitors’ accounts, newspaper articles, and autobiographies from the eighteenth century onward. Statistics bear out these impressions. For example, over the period 1865–1915, the homicide rate in the South was ten times the current rate for the whole United States, and twice the rate in our most violent cities. Modern homicide statistics tell the same story.

In their book, Culture of Honor, psychologists Richard Nisbett and Dov Cohen argue that the South is more violent than the North because southern people have culturally acquired beliefs about personal honor that are different from their northern counterparts. Southerners, they argue, believe more strongly than Northerners that a person’s reputation is important and worth defending even at great cost. As a consequence, arguments and confrontations that lead to harsh words or minor scuffles in Amherst or Ann Arbor often escalate to lethal violence in Asheville or Austin.

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Nisbett and Cohen support their hypothesis with an impressive range of evidence. Let’s start with statistical patterns of violence. In the rural and small-town South, murder rates are elevated for arguments among friends and acquaintances, but not for killings committed in the course of other felonies. In other words, in the South men are more likely than Northerners to kill an acquaintance when an argument breaks out in a bar, but they are no more likely to kill the guy behind the counter when they knock off a liquor store. Thus, Southerners seem to be more violent than other Americans only in situations that involve personal honor. Competing hypotheses don’t do so well: neither white per-capita income nor hot climate nor history of slavery explain this variation in homicide.
http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/712842.html

Kazuya Mishima wrote:Amazingly enough, it's never the redneck good old boy with his hunting rifle who makes the local news for aggravated assault or homicide...

Testiclaw wrote:

cleaner464 wrote:Southerners have too many guns and they're mostly retarded on top of it?

No, no, no. If a population is densely armed it becomes peaceful since weapons are a deterrent to violence.

So if people have a lot of guns there isn't a lot of gun violence, just like in America.

Stupid lib.

johno wrote:

Culture Is Essential
by Peter J. Richerson and Robert Boyd
An excerpt from Not By Genes Alone: How Culture Transformed Human Evolution


The American South has long been more violent than the North. Colorful descriptions of duels, feuds, bushwhackings, and lynchings feature prominently in visitors’ accounts, newspaper articles, and autobiographies from the eighteenth century onward. Statistics bear out these impressions. For example, over the period 1865–1915, the homicide rate in the South was ten times the current rate for the whole United States, and twice the rate in our most violent cities. Modern homicide statistics tell the same story.

In their book, Culture of Honor, psychologists Richard Nisbett and Dov Cohen argue that the South is more violent than the North because southern people have culturally acquired beliefs about personal honor that are different from their northern counterparts. Southerners, they argue, believe more strongly than Northerners that a person’s reputation is important and worth defending even at great cost. As a consequence, arguments and confrontations that lead to harsh words or minor scuffles in Amherst or Ann Arbor often escalate to lethal violence in Asheville or Austin.

...
Nisbett and Cohen support their hypothesis with an impressive range of evidence. Let’s start with statistical patterns of violence. In the rural and small-town South, murder rates are elevated for arguments among friends and acquaintances, but not for killings committed in the course of other felonies. In other words, in the South men are more likely than Northerners to kill an acquaintance when an argument breaks out in a bar, but they are no more likely to kill the guy behind the counter when they knock off a liquor store. Thus, Southerners seem to be more violent than other Americans only in situations that involve personal honor. Competing hypotheses don’t do so well: neither white per-capita income nor hot climate nor history of slavery explain this variation in homicide.
http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/712842.html

"Honor culture" also explains the disproportionate military contributions by the South.

Testiclaw wrote:

cleaner464 wrote:Southerners have too many guns and they're mostly retarded on top of it?

No, no, no. If a population is densely armed it becomes peaceful since weapons are a deterrent to violence.

So if people have a lot of guns there isn't a lot of gun violence, just like in America.

Stupid lib.

DrDonkeyLove wrote:

Testiclaw wrote:

cleaner464 wrote:Southerners have too many guns and they're mostly retarded on top of it?

No, no, no. If a population is densely armed it becomes peaceful since weapons are a deterrent to violence.

So if people have a lot of guns there isn't a lot of gun violence, just like in America.

Stupid lib.

There are states listed among the most peaceful that have liberal gun laws so that can't be the answer. Thanks for trying though.