Life Expectancy — How To Find Where The Pretendians Live

03/22/2024

There has been a fair amount of attention devoted recently to the subject of “Pretendians,” typically left of center white women in academic or government jobs who have decided that they aren’t what they appear — regular white women — but are actually American Indian princesses who are not only glamorously attention-getting but also eligible for affirmative action.

You can find which states and districts have the highest concentration of Pretendians to real Indians by sorting Wikipedia’s 2018 (pre-COVID) life expectancy by race in each state table for average life expectancy among self-designated American Indians.

The lowest life expectancy (67.8 years) is, not surprisingly, in South Dakota, home to the huge and tragic Pine Ridge Sioux reservation, site of the last battle of the Indian wars in 1890 and notorious today for alcoholism and suicide. So, I’d guess that in South Dakota a larger fraction of people who say they are American Indian are more or less American Indian, culturally and genetically.

Life expectancy by race in each state in 2018. [Click on column header to sort by that column]
State	All Races ^[18]	White ^[18]	Hispanic ^[18]	Black ^[18]	Asian ^[18]	American Indian and Alaska Native ^[18]
South Dakota	79.1	80.0	82.7	81.2	85.2	67.8
Montana	78.8	79.3	82.1	81.9	86.1	69.5
North Dakota	79.9	80.1	85.1	82.1	88.3	69.7
Minnesota	80.9	81.0	83.4	79.3	86.8	69.9
Alaska	78.8	80.0	80.9	79.0	87.1	70.5
Nebraska	79.6	79.6	82.1	73.9	86.3	71.1
Wisconsin	79.4	79.4	83.3	73.4	85.8	71.7
Arizona	79.9	80.0	81.0	76.8	87.0	71.8
Wyoming	79.0	79.0	81.8	80.2	85.2	72.9
Oklahoma	76.0	76.1	80.9	72.9	81.0	73.6
New Mexico	78.1	78.7	78.6	74.8	81.8	73.9
Washington	80.4	80.1	81.7	78.0	84.3	74.0
Colorado	80.5	80.6	81.0	77.2	87.9	74.2
Utah	79.9	79.6	81.9	80.2	84.3	74.3
Idaho	79.3	79.1	83.1	81.3	84.9	74.6
Nevada	78.5	76.8	80.7	76.3	84.1	74.9
California	81.6	80.7	83.6	76.0	87.6	75.7
North Carolina	78.0	78.5	81.8	75.0	84.3	76.8
Oregon	79.8	79.5	84.0	77.5	86.4	76.9
Arkansas	75.9	76.0	79.2	72.8	80.6	78.4
Alabama	75.4	76.0	79.1	72.9	80.2	78.7
Kentucky	75.4	75.5	79.6	72.9	80.2	78.9
West Virginia	74.8	74.8	79.7	72.2	79.8	79.0
Kansas	78.5	78.2	81.5	73.8	84.2	79.1
Mississippi	74.9	76.0	79.3	72.6	80.8	79.2
Michigan	78.0	78.0	80.9	73.5	86.0	79.8
Iowa	79.4	79.3	81.8	74.8	86.6	80.1
Tennessee	76.0	76.1	80.7	72.7	82.6	80.4
Louisiana	76.1	77.1	80.9	73.1	81.1	80.5
Ohio	76.9	77.1	81.1	73.0	85.9	80.6
Georgia	77.8	78.0	81.3	75.5	85.2	80.8
South Carolina	77.0	78.0	81.4	73.6	83.1	80.9
Missouri	77.3	77.5	81.9	73.6	84.6	81.0
Indiana	77.0	76.8	82.0	73.2	85.1	81.2
Florida	80.0	79.9	82.1	76.1	86.1	81.6
Texas	79.1	78.5	81.3	74.2	85.1	81.8
Hawaii	82.3	81.3	87.9	80.9	83.7	81.9
Pennsylvania	78.3	78.3	82.2	73.2	86.9	82.2
Virginia	79.5	79.7	84.7	74.5	86.0	82.3
Illinois	79.3	79.1	82.9	73.9	85.3	83.0
Delaware	78.4	78.5	81.3	75.2	85.7	83.1
Connecticut	80.9	80.6	82.9	78.0	87.2	83.6
Maryland	79.1	80.0	81.9	75.3	87.3	83.7
New York	81.3	81.0	82.4	78.0	87.4	83.7
Maine	78.7	78.6	82.1	80.9	85.9	83.8
Rhode Island	79.9	79.7	83.9	73.6	86.4	84.0
Massachusetts	80.5	80.2	82.1	78.8	86.1	84.1
New Jersey	80.4	80.2	82.7	74.8	87.2	84.1
New Hampshire	79.5	79.3	83.5	80.8	87.6	84.4
Vermont	79.7	79.6	83.1	81.1	87.2	85.0
District of Columbia	78.6	87.5	87.8	72.6	89.5	98.5
United States	78.7	78.6	82.0	75.0	86.3	77.4

In contrast, the highest life expectancy for self-proclaimed American Indians is the District of Columbia, where the average life expectancy in 2018 (no doubt on a small sample size) was 98.5.

I think we’ve found the Pretendians!

[Comment at Unz.com]

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