Table 3.

Spatial lag econometric regression of slave concentration and heart disease decline from 1968–2014, by race.

		Confounder adjusted				Confounder + intermediate adjusted
		Black		White		Black		White
		β	SE	β	SE	β	SE	β	SE
1860	Slave Concentration	-0.169	0.028	-0.015	0.020	-0.125	0.033	-0.016	0.024
	(Slave Concentration)2	0.144	0.068	0.085	0.050	0.133	0.072	0.081	0.052
	Population count (log)	-0.002	0.003	0.002	0.002	-0.007	0.004	-0.001	0.003
	Average value of farmland and buildings per acre ($)	0.006	0.004	0.003	0.003	0.009	0.005	0.000	0.003
	Annual value of manufacturing products ($)	0.001	0.002	0.004	0.002	0.002	0.002	0.002	0.002
1930	Illiteracy racial disparity log(Black/White)					-0.010	0.006	-0.003	0.004
	Unemployment racial disparity log(Black/White)					0.005	0.007	0.009	0.005
	Median Home Value disparity log(White/Black)					-0.011	0.008	0.011	0.006
1970	Poverty racial disparity log(Black/White)					-0.005	0.010	0.020	0.007
	Adults with bachelors degree, racial disparity log(White/Black)					0.004	0.007	0.019	0.005
	Physicians per 1,000 population					0.001	0.005	0.003	0.003
	Rural/Urban
	Metropolitan area	Ref		Ref		Ref
	Non-metro town	-0.026	0.008	-0.020	0.006	-0.028	0.008	-0.016	0.006
	Rural	-0.016	0.009	-0.008	0.006	-0.025	0.010	0.006	0.007
1877–1950	Cumulative number of documented lynchingsa
	0					ref
	1–10					-0.011	0.007	-0.006	0.005
	11–20					-0.039	0.014	-0.019	0.010
	> 20					-0.008	0.024	-0.018	0.017
Region
	Deep South	Ref		Ref		Ref
	Upper South	0.018	0.007	0.004	0.005	0.014	0.008	0.010	0.006
Slave Concentration * Region		0.069	0.034	0.052	0.025	0.071	0.035	0.026	0.026
ρ (lag coefficient)		0.410		0.542		0.400		0.513

p < 0.05 for bolded coefficients.