> Well, among other things, her research shows that killing of
> acquaintances really stand out in the Scots-Irish areas; killings of
> strangers and other forms of crime aren't out of line.
Having grown up in one of these "areas", I might mention that *everybody* is an "acquaintance". There are no strangers to kill. In fact there are no non-relatives to kill. If you kill somebody, he's gonna be a third cousin twice removed. At best.
This is the sort of thing it's hard to "adjust" for, statistically, if you have no actual personal knowledge of the world you're trying to explain.
The 1790 Census, forsooth! One doesn't know whether to laugh or cry.
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