Table 1.

Predictors of county-level age-adjusted adult obesity prevalence rates for contiguous U.S. (N = 3109).

	Beta	Standard error
Constant	18.232
Poverty rate (%)	0.173**	0.01
African American (%)	0.090**	0.007
Latino/Hispanic (%)	0.001	0.001
Educational attainment (high school or less only) (%)	0.195**	0.009
2012 Republican Party candidate vote (%)	0.023**	0.005
λ (the control for spatial clustering in the error term)	0.663**	0.017

a. Statistical significance for parameter estimates represented as:

^**p < 0.01.

b. Log likelihood: −7392.7 v.−7905.0 for OLS without spatial error term.

c. To test the robustness of the model, key “swing” states (i.e., FL, NC, IN, CO, VA) were removed and the model re-estimated. Results from the sensitivity analysis (unreported) were consistent in magnitude, direction and significance with those reported in Table 1.