It's hard to be original. Turns out, your analyst's result on the overdose gradient had more or less already been published by health researchers in 2017. Instead of looking only at deaths due to overdose, their predictor was the common component of seven public health indicators. Like me, they found a very strong relationship between poor health indicators and the swing to Trump in the cross-section of US counties.
Class Reproduction in America Revisited
Class Reproduction in America Revisited
Class Reproduction in America Revisited
It's hard to be original. Turns out, your analyst's result on the overdose gradient had more or less already been published by health researchers in 2017. Instead of looking only at deaths due to overdose, their predictor was the common component of seven public health indicators. Like me, they found a very strong relationship between poor health indicators and the swing to Trump in the cross-section of US counties.