If you work with statistics, you should know that because they are rural areas they'd be EASIER to make the list. Much like Jackson, Miss, can make the list over Chicago.
You still fail to prove to me the poor areas, of unemployed white men that do just as much if not more drugs, making the murder rate list....because you can't. You'd rather point to atlanta who has upper middle class blacks, and match it up to Utah, yet that is not your argument....which is that socio-economic disadvantage breeds violence. So, if that's the case, why can you not show me a predominately violent white area? it should be quite easy. I mean, Im sure you can show me a mexican, and rican one. but alas, you fail to show me a white one. That's the bottom line. you can dance around it all you want, but you WILL NOT be able to show me a predominately violent white area. I didn't say it had to do with race, but rather, culture. and the poorer african american culture glamorizes gun clapping. while the disadvantaged whites do not. They do not have the same murder rate, not even close.