I showed the correlation, You can pretend if that is how you function. No law against it. Ho hum.
You can actually calculate correlations between (for example) deaths per capita and percentage of Blacks in a state. Here is the code I used for that, with numbers from the New York Times and Wikipedia.
> cases<-c(93, 82, 64, 58, 52, 43, 42, 42, 40, 37, 35, 35, 33, 32, 29, 27, 27,
+ 27, 26, 26, 25, 25, 20, 18, 18, 18, 18, 17, 17, 16, 16, 15, 14, 14, 13, 13,
+ 12, 12, 12, 12, 11, 11, 9, 8, 8, 8, 8, 7, 7, 4)
> #number of new cases per 100,000 population
> #source:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/us/covid-cases.html
> spike<-c(186, 128, 69, 159, 149, 26, 126, 116, 291, 212, 216, 36, 238, 175,
+ 91, 29, 192, 79, 56, 240, 213, 113, 123, 183, 96, 153, 127, 111, 331, 263, 140,
+ 158, 177, 126, 162, 188, 189, 137, 129, 179, 140, 170, 201, 173, 166, 206, 236,
+ 241, 87, 146)
> #percent increase in new cases
> #source:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/us/covid-cases.html
> deaths<-c(46, 29, 61, 32, 15, 35, 11, 14, 9, 15, 10, 35, 13, 13, 11, 13, 13, 25,
+ 19, 9, 9, 10, 7, 23, 12, 9, 10, 8, 9, 1, 6, 6, 4, 4, 4, 14, 2, 9, 5, 4, 5, 6, 4,
+ 4, 7, 6, 2, 2, 2, 3)
> #number of new deaths per 10 million population
> #source:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/us/covid-cases.html
> black<-c(33.4, 17.6, 16.7, 38.9, 27.8, 12.9, 9.2, 4.7, 28.0, 13.5, 33.5, 11.3,
+ 18.0, 9.5, 7.4, 1.9, 23.1, 2.1, 6.0, 3.0, 3.5, 7.0, 5.6, 1.4, 1.2, 3.4, 11.0,
+ 5.4, 7.5, 9.6, 15.4, 5.2, 21.3, 6.1, 17.6, 4.8, 13.2, 24.4, 15.1, 9.9, 14.4, 7.5,
+ 3.9, 12.9, 15.3, 32.2, 2.2, 2.1, 2.4, 3.0)
> #percent of population that is black
> #source:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
> #List_of_U.S._states_and_territories_by_African-American_population
> trump<-c(1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
+ 1, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0.8, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
+ 0.25, 1)
> #modified one-hot vector showing whether a state voted for Trump
> #fractional values are the proportion of a state's total electoral vote
> #that went to Trump
> gop<-c(1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0,
+ 1, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1)
> #one-hot vector indicating that a Republican is governor
> #all other states have Democratic governors
> vacc<-c(37, 49, 37, 35, 35, 42, 40, 46, 41, 44, 39, 45, 39, 46, 45, 45, 44, 37,
+ 45, 56, 54, 53, 58, 44, 37, 57, 44, 55, 52, 62, 49, 50, 55, 50, 57, 39, 63, 53,
+ 59, 64, 47, 54, 40, 53, 49, 59, 58, 68, 64, 47)
> #percentage of the population that is fully vaxxed
> #source:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/us/covid-cases.html
> cor (cases, black)
[1] 0.4681208
> cor (cases, trump)
[1] 0.471583
> cor (cases, gop)
[1] 0.3819565
> cor (cases, vacc)
[1] -0.5699922
> cor (spike, black)
[1] 0.1978247
> cor (spike, trump)
[1] -0.219132
> cor (spike, gop)
[1] -0.07811492
> cor (spike, vacc)
[1] 0.2290804
> cor (deaths, black)
[1] 0.2883672
> cor (deaths, trump)
[1] 0.3853578
> cor (deaths, gop)
[1] 0.3333766
> cor (deaths, vacc)
[1] -0.5956879
> cor (black, vacc)
[1] -0.2934232
> cor (trump, vacc)
[1] -0.6617622
> cor (gop, vacc)
[1] -0.6887925
You can see that there is a fairly high positive correlation between number of new cases per capita and having a black population, a somewhat higher correlation between number of new cases per capita and voting for Trump, and a somewhat lower correlation between number of new cases per capita and having a Republican governor. There is also a strong negative correlation between new cases per capita and vaccination rates. However, states with the fastest percentage rise in Covid cases per capita tend to be relatively highly vaccinated, to have relatively high Black populations, and to have voted for Biden. The correlation between having a high Black population and a high rate of new deaths is more than 1/3 lower than the correlation between voting for Trump and having a lot of per capita deaths; having a Republican governor is also more correlated with having a lot of per capita deaths. Meanwhile, there is a very strong negative correlation between vaccination rates and having a lot of deaths per capita. Voting for Trump and having a GOP governor are more than twice as highly correlated with being unvaccinated as having a large Black population.