id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_l5fbp576pjfzjcubq24uwmcvwq Javier M. Rodriguez Black lives matter: Differential mortality and the racial composition of the U.S. electorate, 1970–2004 2015 7 .pdf application/pdf 6954 885 53 close state-level elections over the study period would likely have had different outcomes if voting age These statistics suggest that significant black-white mortality differentials are important social forces shaping the composition of the US electorate. black-white health disparities are persistent at all levels of the socioeconomic spectrum (Pearson 2008), and far higher than in other The effects of black-white differential mortality on electoral Estimates of excess deceased blacks (1970e2004), hypothetical survivors and votes lost (2004). the election data we then estimate the fraction of these hypothetical black survivors who (1) would have voted; and (2) would have black votes lost to excess mortality at the state level by identifying Excess mortality among blacks and whites in the United States. Black lives matter: Differential mortality and the racial composition of the U.S. electorate, 1970–2004 Black lives matter: Differential mortality and the racial composition of the U.S. electorate, 1970–2004 ./cache/work_l5fbp576pjfzjcubq24uwmcvwq.pdf ./txt/work_l5fbp576pjfzjcubq24uwmcvwq.txt