The Resilience of the Hispanic Paradox: An Ecological Study of Cultural Density, Poverty, and Mortality in Florida (2020-2024)

In Florida, county-level poverty is strongly associated with higher all-cause mortality. Independently, higher Hispanic population density is associated with lower mortality across counties after adjustment for key covariates. These ecological associations do not establish causality, but they are consistent with the hypothesis that cultural density may be linked to population-level resilience in the context of socioeconomic deprivation.