People who migrate from states with a strong “culture of honor” bring with them a don’t-back-down defensiveness learned in their home communities, and that makes them more likely to die by violence even in historically safe states [...] The most violent U.S. regions — Appalachia, the Deep South and the old frontier states — are still deeply marked by a Wild West, stand-your-ground ethos,

The study doesn't seem to do any calculations regarding socioeconomic statuses? I doubt a wealthy highly-educated man from Kentucky would have similar "following violence" if he moved to Wisconsin or whatever the examples were... or someone moving for a long-term job offer... but rather people from worse socioeconomic backgrounds moving to a bigger city without many promises and then getting caught up in more shit.

It's the same result regardless, but it doesn't feel like it's only because of some macho-culture thing.

This sounds like a topic that can be very easily taken and smacked with any politically leaning context

America is a warrior nation. What they call news is actually fear mongering twaddle. Their heroic archetypes in film solve problems with violence. The state itself increasingly behaves like a robber baron. They are obsessed with weapons. School shootings are but one grotesque outcome of this pathology but however disgusting those events are, gun ownership is ubiquitous. It's a society that would destroy itself rather than admit it's wrong.

As a lifelong resident of the United States, TIL there are non-violent states. Apparently. Somewhere.

TIL: Violent citizens more from state to state taking the violence with them?

So you're saying Americans are the problem?

Violence from who? Seems like somehow where they are moving to must be equally as violent in some way.