You are misreading the chart.
The SNAP chart is the percentage of people in a state that receive food stamps.
Not total.
They are using it as a proxy for relative poverty.
I did not misread it. It is as you state percentage of people in a state. So if Mississippi has 2 million people, and 20% are on SNAP, that’s only 400,000. If CA has 40 million and 10% are on SNAP, that’s 4,000,000. I can play this math all day and CA is still sucking more than Mississippi. Take this and translate it to number of illegals in the school and medical system. CA will be the ‘biggest loser’ by a mile. How much federal aid do you think the Cal college system is milking compared to Mississippi? How much road assistance and road miles that get federal aid compared between the two states? The list goes on and on. Mississippi may be poorer, but the overall federal aid is much higher to CA. And Mississippi isn’t asking federal dollars to build high speed trains that no one will ride.