[toasterlovin]

FYI Missippi has a GDP per capita similar to Germany, France, and the UK.

[dagw]

According to the numbers on Wikipedia Mississippi seems to be about $8-12k GDP per capita below the countries you mentioned.

[toasterlovin]

Shoot, you're right. I saw somebody upthread mention ~$40k for Mississippi and didn't bother to verify. Still, it's not exactly like Mississippi is a 3rd world country.