To crow from below  

You keep missing the cost of living!  Taking two of the states you talked about let's look at the cost of living.

If you lived in Hattiesburg and made the average household income, you would be making $45,081.  That really does not sound all that great.

Now if you lived in Boston, Mass and made the average household income, you would be making $71,115.  That really sounds much better, but is it.

The cost of living in Boston is 77% higher that Hattiesburg. So to maintain the same standard of living in Boston that you would have in Hattiesburg you would need to earn $79,984.  Hold on, people in Boston don't make that much, this means the average household income in Hattiesburg has $8,872 more dollars to spend each year than the average household in Boston.

Didn't you say you are a conservative, I don't think so, you understand very little about money.

useful idiot 

79,000