It discusses causes of death that are statistically greater when compared to all states. It's still puzzling.

to be old age or other natural causes.

Who knew?

A lot of people die in small planes, boating accidents, car crashes.

We have, in this county of 25,000 or so, fatal car wrecks almost every single week.
The news reports, invariably, report that the car "left the road at a high rate of speed, hit ( solid object like a tree) and driver/passenger was thrown from vehicle".
Speeding, no seat belts are too common down here.

Roughly speaking, each year 30,000 Americans are killed by guns and 45,000 by cars.

The leading cause of death is the phrase "hold my beer and eatch this".

Hell, you can grow veggies almost year round here!

http://www.ncpolicywatch.com/2014/10/22/north-carolina-children-need-better-access-to-healthy-food-connecting-the-dots-between-hunger-malnutrition-and-obesity/

Progressive Voices
North Carolina children need better access to healthy food: Connecting the dots between hunger, malnutrition and obesity

Inexcusable anywhere in this country actually.

"To make the map (published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention earlier this week), Francis P. Boscoe and Eva Pradhan, both at the New York State Department of Health, took data from 2001 to 2010 and calculated state rates of death for each of the 113 causes tracked by the CDC. They then divided those answers by the national rates of death for those specific causes. As Tech Times pointed out, the most distinctive cause doesn't necessarily mean high numbers. Rather, the map shows a cause of death for each state that occurs at higher rates than in the rest of the country."

There are no states where cops are anywhere near the leading cause of death, and I'm slightly worried that that wouldn't be immediately obvious.

What there are are states where the *ratio* of number of people killed by law enforcement intervention to the national average is greater than for any of the other 112 causes of death. Many of those other 112 will be commoner in that state, but they'll also be commoner nationwide, so the ratio will not be as large.

Which is quite interesting, because it implies that some law enforcement agencies are killing far fewer people than others, and it might be worth looking at sharing best practice (although obviously local crime rates will be a very large part of the variance), but it doesn't tell you anything about the relative frequencies of death by law enforcement intervention to death by tuberculosis or gun accident.

That just sounds like we ain't got no good doctors or nothing!!!

I was hoping for something really Georgia-specific like, I don't know, peanut avalanche.

But we have the extreme weather changes. It was in the 80's today and the 30's a week or two ago. But if you move here, bring food, apparently.