US research shows that country music fans have the highest suicide rate. “The results of a multiple regression analysis of 49 metropolitan areas show that the greater the airtime devoted to country music, the greater the white suicide rate. The effect is independent of divorce, southernness, poverty, and gun availability.” Hat tip to The Road to Surfdom.
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I’m reminded of an old joke: If you play country songs backwards they’re much happier — you get your wife back, your house back, your job back, you quit drinking…
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The suicide rate could very well have increased due to the people who ARE NOT country music fans, killing themselves to end the torture. After all, the article said the study was in metropolitan areas, not rural.
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i love this statistic and hate country music
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The only good country song to me is the devil went down to georgia
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You know I dont agree I LOVE country and I never tried to commit suicide


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