Table 4.  Excess Deaths in the Black Belt, by Race and Top 20 Causes of Deaths Among Blacks
Racial Group in Black
Belt for Which Deaths
Are Counted
 All
Races
Black
White
Race and region compared to
which the above group
has excess deaths 
All Races
 White
 Black
 White
Remain-
der
of
South
 Non-
South
 Black
Belt
Remain-
der
of
South

 Non-
South
 Remain-
der
of
 South
 Non-
South
 
(1)
 (2)
 (3)
 (4)
 (5)
 (6)
 (7)
Total (net) excess deaths from all causes
 9,624
 9,343
 6,501
 836
 870
 3,197
 2,201
1. Heart Disease
 2,892
 1,429
 1,181
 390
 68
 1,311
 232
2. Cancer (malignant neoplasms)
 1,078
 479
 553
 -204
 -821
 487
 46
3. Stroke and related conditions (cerebrovascular disease)
 1,444
 2,133
 1,004
 183
 1,024
 449
 693
4.  Accidents
 695
 1,317
 339
 200
 778
 240
 511
5. Unknown cause (a)
 693
 1,194
 984
 366
 618
 -66
 179
6. Homicide and legal intervention
 494
 735
 758
 -15
 -188
 -1
 98
7. Perinatal-origin conditions (b)
 313
 386
 388
 24
 -41
 27
 32
8. Diabetes (diabetes mellitus)
 349
 276
 405
 11
 31
 42
 -45
9. Pneumonia and influenza
 116
 -137
 66
 -43
 -187
 54
 -99
10. Kidney disease, except infections (c)
 287
 368
 305
 32
 95
 43
 60
11. Chronic Obstructive pulmonary disease and related conditions
 -76
 -187
 -357
 -25
 -122
 118
 77
12. Chronic liver disease and cirrhosis
 50
 -81
 24
 -59
 -333
 37
 -19
13. Atherosclerosis (a common form of arteriosclerosis)
 4
 -35
 -4
 -35
 13
 9
 -24
14. Bacterial blood infection (septicemia)
 193
 223
 162
 59
 40
 41
 48
15. Birth "defects" (congenital anomalies)
 31
 45
 -17
 12
 0
 20
 27
16. High blood pressure (hypertension)
 116
 113
 166
 5
 34
 -1
 -20
17. Arterial diseases not listed elsewhere in this table
 4
 -55
 -46
 -17
 -30
 28
 -6
18. Suicide
 -83
 -25
 -284
 -11
 -50
 69
 126
19. Anemia
 46
 61
 52
 -1
 19
 8
 10
20. Other neoplasms (d)
 14
 7
 11
 -19
 -13
 8
 0
All other causes
 964
 1,097
 811
 -17
 -65
 274
 275
(a) "Symptoms, signs, and ill-defined conditions"
(b) Conditions originating shortly before or after birth
(c) Nephritis, neophronic syndrome, nephrosis
(d) Benign neoplasms, noninvasive carcinomas, neoplasms not listed elsewhere

Note: Negative numbers indicate "shortages" of deaths vis-a-vis the comparison group.  Causes of death are listed
in descending rank order of deaths to Blacks in the Black Belt.