LIFE EXPECTANCY IN THE U.S.

If you’re born in the South, chances are you’ll have a shorter life expectancy compared with the rest of the United States, according to newly released data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The study examined state-level mortality and population estimates from 2018.
– The CDC found that Americans are expected to live an average of 78.7 years, though women were more likely to outlive men by five years.
– West Virginia, Mississippi, Alabama, Kentucky, Tennessee, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Arkansas, South Carolina and Missouri all ranked in the bottom 10 states for life expectancy. West Virginians had an average life expectancy of 74.4 years.
– Hawaii is the state with the highest average life expectancy at 81 years, followed by California, New York, Minnesota, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Washington, Colorado, New Jersey and Rhode Island.
* Hawaii, huh? Must be all that hula dancing.
* Whoever put this list together hasn’t been to Florida.
* What if you were born in West Virginia, but you move to Hawaii and you find Jesus and you’re born again. Will that affect anything?
* ‘Course if you’re born in Hawaii you can put everything in an RV and then travel the world in your own little bubble of extra time.
* So, depending on where you were born, you could have three extra years of life… to sit around and watch TV and wait for the dinner call at the rest home.