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I assume that is because of the poverty levels in Mississippi, Arkansas and Alabama.
Not sure what to say about Wyoming. I wonder if Indian Reservations squew the numbers for Wyoming.
Not the poverty levels, the V8 pick up levels.
Lower income, more driving, less fuel efficient cars, more sprawl, worse public transit.
Most of the towns are tiny. The need for public transport is near 0. I drive it regularly and the amount of towns under 50 population is crazy.
maybe their cousins live farther away
LOL!!!
Yes, but that is combined with driving longer distances for commutes and other crap.
The jobs in Mississippi don't pay worth a damn. It doesn't help that employers secretly hate their employees for costing them money. If they could pay you less than minimum wage, they would.
It's the same for white collar and blue collar workers. Maximum exploitation in order to reach quarterly earnings goals.
Mississippi and Alabama have petro-chemical industries (and defence) that pay handsomely. They have some of the highest wage levels in the Union.
probably because those companies cannot survive in states with more regulations, and i doubt the country bumpkin is getting hired at these jobs.
I've never seen it spelled that way before. Is that a regional thing, or just a typo?
It's "skew", fyi.
Somewhat surprisingly, there's no Q in skew. Maybe it's just that Wyoming is so empty
*skew
And yeah that does make a lot of sense. For Wyoming honestly it's also just a massively spread out state compared to nearly anywhere else
*squaw
*racist douchebag
Too easily offended and ready to attack you are
Or old ski enthusiast.
Sqaw Valley recently rebranded to Palisades Tahoe.
Exactly. Hence the “old.”