Mississippi is still the poorest state, and TX is about even with CA. You just pick on Ca because Trump does. Whatever Trump does you say. Florida has a poop map and TX has just as many homeless.
Ca has 10 million more people.
First, your claim that we are dumping on California because of Trump.... is bonkers. If you are lying in an attempt to fool us, this is the worst attempt I've ever seen. If you are fooling yourself into believing what you are posting here, then may I strongly suggest you seek a mental health professional.
We've been dumping on California for decades. Only California put in place policies that resulted in rolling black outs across the entire state, and then blame a company outside the state, which had nothing to do with it.
Only California had the police pull back from a riot zone, instead of stopping the rioters, allowing chaos and violence across the city, for 6 full days.
Only California sent a delegation to the Federal government, asking them to guarantee California's debt, because the entire state was on the verge of bankruptcy.
And whining that Mississippi is poorer, is actually our whole point. If Mississippi said they needed a bailout because they were on the verge of bankruptcy, we would all say "Well yeah... they are pretty poor".
But California, with all its business and billionaires, and they are on the verge of bankruptcy?
California has a people living in tents across the entire state? California has a viral outbreaks?
What excuse do you want to make for that? $2.5 Trillion dollars of the GDP for this nation, comes from California, and yet they have $1.3 Trillion in direct debt, and owe $1 Trillion in public employee pensions.
How do you explain that?
And lastly, when you say people are poorer, are you accounting for the fact that the cost of living is lower?
Had a guy I worked with years ago, retire. He moved to Tennessee and lived like a King. No income tax, low housing prices, cheap everything.
You can go to Mississippi, and find a luxury home, for starter home prices. Just on a whim, I looked up large homes in Mississippi, and found a 4,000 sqft home, 6 bedrooms, 5 baths, 2 car garage, red brick, sitting on 4 acres. Cost? $150K. That would be a starter home here in Columbus Ohio.
That would be an outhouse in California. Just for giggles, I punched in $150K house California. I found this 2 Bed 1 bath, 800 sq ft.
This is what we mean by California is poor. Yeah, if you look at just the numbers, incomes in California are much higher. Absolutely true.
But when you compare the cost of living.... $150K in Mississippi gets you a luxury home, and $150 in California gets you a dump.... They are poor. They are not living wealthy lives, with all their wealth.
I've said this story before. Growing up in my parents church, there were a couple of Asian girls there. One became an architect. She moved to California, with her 4-year degree in architecture. Two years later, she returned to Ohio, and said it was absolute hell in California. She lived in a tiny 3 bedroom rental, with 6 people, 2 per room. Despite splitting the rent 6 ways, she worked her ass off at a job, just to come home, and have little money to do anything else, because just going out to eat was $50 a pop.
And that was years ago. Things are much worse now.