This thread has left the tracks, as the left loonies add their remarks.
Child mortality has nothing to do with the subject. But these figures on the net:

Deaths/100,000, age to 14 years
Mississippi- 29
Massachusetts- 11
U. S. -18

Botswana- 47.7/ 1000, to age 5. or 4770/100,000
The figure would be higher if extended to age 14.

Mississippi worse than Botswana?