Lot of parasites in the South. I thought it would be NY, MA, CA with the biggest percentages of useless eaters.
In MA, at least, it's probably just a matter of it being percentages.
But yeah, our mill cities, or former mill cities, like Lowell, Lawrence, Fall River, Brockton, etc., are chock-full of food stampers. And the areas west of Worcester are very economically depressed, too - although they are populated far less densely than the areas to the east.
In my own town, I have had the pleasure of paying cash for my own groceries just after watching a woman buy groceries I could not afford with an EBT card, and then watching her pack those groceries into an SUV I could not afford. Awesome.
I am not sure I believe the CA data.