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man, the vast majority of states are a lot lower than i would have expected.
It's because state-level analysis is misleading, it masks disparities within states. The state-level analysis can be seen as a weighted average between rural and urban areas, for example, depending on how "sampling" is done.
Oh that makes sense. I always laugh when people talk about average wages between blue and red states because any decent business mind who is in agriculture basically takes zero wages but drive brand new trucks and have herds of horses and cows.
Hmm! I feel like this helps explain rural areas in my state that seem to be doing pretty well, despite being in counties with some of the lowest household incomes. Been kind of wondering about this for a while actually, but hadn't really thought about it I guess~
Yep, everything is a business expense, housing, fuel, vehicles, clothing... meeting the neighboring farmers at the diner every morning for breakfast and coffee? That's business meeting.