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The gap from top to bottom is **11.5 percentage points**: a resident of Louisiana is more than twice as likely to live below the poverty line as a resident of New Hampshire.\n\nThe disconnect matters. California, with the most SNAP recipients by far, has a poverty rate of just 11.8%, below the national average. Mississippi, with the second-highest poverty rate, has only 369,000 recipients. Volume follows population; poverty follows policy.\n```","order":1,"faqs":[]},{"tocTitle":"Why the South Stays Poor","contentTitle":"Why the Poorest States Are Almost All in the South","content":"```\nEight of the nine states with the highest poverty rates sit below the Mason-Dixon line. The South averages a poverty rate of **13.96%**, compared to 11.37% in the Midwest, 10.93% in the West, and **10.41% in the Northeast**. That gap has persisted for decades.\n\nThe reasons are structural. A [2020 study by Regina S. Baker](https://academic.oup.com/sf/article-abstract/99/1/126/5673997), published in *Social Forces*, found that \"power resources,\" a category encompassing unionization rates and social policy generosity, were the most influential factors explaining the Southern poverty gap. Every former Confederate state is a right-to-work state. Unionization rates in the South average roughly half the national figure.\n\nThe [Economic Policy Institute](https://www.epi.org/publication/rooted-in-racism/) describes a \"Southern economic development model\" built around low wages, low taxes, few labor protections, and weak public investment. The strategy attracts businesses with cheap labor and minimal regulation. It also produces lower household incomes: the South's median household income averages **$38,924**, roughly $3,500 less than the Northeast and the West.\n\n**District of Columbia** breaks the pattern. 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