Transplants Bring Crime and Make Our Lives More Dangerous!
When Americans migrate from violent states, the risk of future violence follows them
When Americans migrate from violent states, the risk of future violence follows them
Brings Springhill, TN to mind after the Saturn plant brought in half of Detroit and Buffalo! - DD
(Phys.Org) - Americans who grow up in historically violent states may move to a safer state, but they remain far more likely to die violently, according to new research co-authored at the University of California, Berkeley.
In effect, the research finds, people who migrate from states with a strong “culture of honor” bring with them a don’t-back-down defensiveness learned in their home communities. That makes them more likely to die by violence wherever they are, says the study led by UC Berkeley political scientist Gabriel Lenz, a specialist in crime and criminal justice.
The study, “Migration and the Persistence of Violence,” was published today in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Lenz’s co-authors were Martin Vinæs Larsen, an associate professor of political science at Aarhus University in Denmark, and Anna Mikkelborg, a Berkeley Ph.D. graduate and now an assistant professor of political science at Colorado State University.
The findings are based on a study of millions of U.S. deaths since 1959. Because of data constraints, the research focuses on long-term death patterns among white, non-Hispanic Americans, but the findings also apply to Black migrants, said Lenz. The researchers conclude that…