[LionTamer]

The US does, Mississippi doesn’t. Mississippi has a GDP per capital of about $42,411 [0] while UK has $47,334 [1]. Those are both in current USD.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territ... [1] https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.CD?location...

[deepdriver]

Those numbers are still remarkably similar.

[rco8786]

Yep. Then you look at wealth distribution and it all makes sense.

Mississippi’s Gini coefficient is around .49, where the UK is around .34.