Mississippi is nearly 40% black, the highest in the nation.
The crime rate and illegitimacy stems SOLELY from that fact.
Whites in Mississippi have very low crime rate and vote extremely conservative.
Many whites attend church regularly as do a fair number of blacks...particularly rural ones.
And Mississippi is one of the largest charity givers per capita yet quite poor compared to say stingy Massachusetts.
Is that clearer?
I just googled it. Mississippi has the lowest family income, lowest quality of life. lowest quality of health care, education. But then, it is the most religious state. Go figure. Secularists are going to have a field day with this data.
On the other hand, If Vermont is such a heaven, why do only 600,000 people reside there? Is it because of the weather ? Or maybe because Vermont is too small ?
It is interesting to compare the list of the most religious states, to the list of smartest states .... particularly if you look at the top and bottom ten in each list.
The correlation isn’t 100%, but its pretty strong.
http://www.statestats.com/edrank.htm