Using the 1 year recently released data on incomes, I've calculated new income inequality numbers for states using the mean proportional difference. The most eqaul are:
1. Alaska
2. Utah
3. Wyoming
4. Idaho
5. Nevada
6. Iowa
7. New Hampshire
8. Vermont
9. Wisconsin
10. Maine
So the West (especially the Mountain West), the Midwest, and New England represent the entire list. What do these states have in common? They are some of the least populated, except Wisconsin, and they do not contain very large metro areas. Milwaukee, Las Vegas, and Salt Lake are the largest urban areas among these states.
The most unequal are:
1. New York
2. Louisiana
3. Massachusetts
4. Mississippi
5. Alabama
6. Connecticut
7. Georgia
8. Kentucky
9. Texas
10. Rhode Island
Northeast states and southern states make up the list here. New York and Massachusetts are drug down by their largest urban areas, which ahve the highest income inequality among very large metros. Interestingly, many southern metros do much better than the states they are in, such as Atlanta and Dallas. In these states, the ineqaulity is likely the result of metro vs. rural income gaps.
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