PART I The context

1 What we learned from the right-to-work study



2 Socioeconomic structures of the Trump and Clinton sets of states



3 Life and death in America



PART II The findings



4 Mortality rates of infants and children under age 15



4.1 Infant mortality



4.2 Deaths of children 1?4 years old per 100,000



4.3 Deaths of children 5?9 and 10?14 years of age



4.4 Excess years of life lost in Trump states



5 Vital blood vessels: mortality rates from coronary heart and from cerebrovascular disease



5.1 Introduction



5.2 Coronary heart mortality rates below age 75



5.3 Cerebrovascular mortality rates



6 Obesity and diabetes



6.1 Introduction



6.2 Adult obesity prevalence in 2015: comparison of Trump and Clinton sets of states



6.3 Diabetes mortality rates



6.4 Obesity, diabetes, coronary heart disease, and cerebrovascular disease



7 Risk behaviors



7.1 Eating your veggies and fruit



7.2 Vehicle fatality incidence 2015



7.3 Cigarettes and alcohol



7.4 Unsafe sex: births to teenagers and gonorrhea



7.5 Homicide



7.6 Index of risk behavior



7.7 Why risk behaviors?



8 Alzheimer’s disease and state voting patterns



9 Roots of health patterns of Trump- and Clinton-voting states



PART III Power and inequality



10 The collapse of countervailing force



10.1 Introduction



10.2 The control of inherent instability



10.3 Failure of control I



10.4 Failure of control II



10.5 Discussion and conclusions



11 Pentagon capitalism: the Cold War and US deindustrialization



11.1 Introduction



11.2 Ratchet dynamics I



11.3 Ratchet dynamics II



11.4 Ratchet dynamics III



11.5 Ratchet dynamics IV



11.6 Failure of efficiency in economic enterprise



11.7 The hysteresis of industrial collapse



11.8 Discussion and conclusions



12 Countervailing forces and their geographic ebbing: public health changes



13 References



14 Data sets and their sources



14.1 Economic



14.2 Demographic



14.3 Education/social



14.4 Political engagement



14.5 Life expectancy and death rates



14.6 Obesity and diabetes prevalence



14.7 Other risk behaviors