Why are black poor Americans more optimistic than white ones?
“America has seen a dramatic increase in the number of so-called “deaths of despair”. Caused by opioid addiction, alcohol or drug overdose and suicide, these deaths have hit middle-aged white people without a college education particularly hard. The trend is extensive enough to have driven up the overall mortality rate, with the US in the unusual position of being a rich country where life expectancy is falling rather than going up.”