So soon the bottom five will be...
Arkan-saw,
Mississippi
Washington
Oregon
New Mexico which is now on the very bottom. Sad.
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All under the watchful eye of their parent: California
Sixty five years ago we lived in New Mexico. Lots of poor people but still lots of good jobs, good pay and good schools.
The dad dragged us kids kicking and screaming to the Ozarks, a place he had never lived. Being used to seeing poor people but not people living in destitute Poverty! Poor schools, segregation, kids with no desire to learn as they would just end up a dirt farmer like their paw. A real culture shock!
Sixty Years Later, the NW corner of Arkansas, due to Walmart Money, a new Power Plant and cookie factory, the NW counties have almost no poverty(/there’s always a few lazy ones) and the wealth overflows into neighboring states and counties. South west Arkansas are still in poverty.
But on a trip to NM, I saw Ghost towns that used to thrive, and lots of not poor people, but those in destitute poverty!
Arkansas began it’s move upward when they elected Winthrop Rockefeller a Republican.
New Mexico began it’s downward slide when they chose the Democrat path.