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Anytime you're saying something about an entire state, you have to really generalize or evaluate it on state-level attributes. Both those states have cities with populations over 100 ~~million~~ thousand (Huntsville AL is over 200 ~~million~~ thousand).
Looking at Bureau of Labor Statistics data, it looks like both states have a similar number of counties with weekly average wages below national average.
Here's Alabama
Here's Mississippi
(Scroll down to map)
I think Alabama has a slightly stronger economy and less unemployment.
Uh I think you might be off by a few orders of magnitude, I'm pretty sure that, of the roughly 360 million people in the US, 300+ of them do not live in either AL or MS
Lol, yes, I said million instead of thousands. Just a little off.
Huntsville, Al has a population of 216,936.
You need to check your math.
Yeah, I said million and meant thousand - but why are we quibbling over three orders of magnitude?
I was looking at giant numbers all day at work and my brain didn't reset. Sorry about that.