People who live in Memphis’ poor codes not only die sooner than anyone else in Shelby County.
They die sooner than people in developing nations like Ecuador and Bolivia.
That someone born in South Memphis may not live to age 70 while, according to the CIA World Factbook, someone born in those two poor, Latin American countries may live to age 74, may not surprise many folks.
But what also shouldn’t surprise many folks is that residents in 38126 and 38106, people who live in a rich nation but struggle to live as long as people in impoverished ones, might give the side-eye to a government that suddenly seems to value their lives.