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[-] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Anytime you're saying something about an entire state, you have to really generalize or evaluate it on state-level attributes. Both those states have cities with populations over 100 ~~million~~ thousand (Huntsville AL is over 200 ~~million~~ thousand).

Looking at Bureau of Labor Statistics data, it looks like both states have a similar number of counties with weekly average wages below national average.

Here's Alabama

Here's Mississippi

(Scroll down to map)

I think Alabama has a slightly stronger economy and less unemployment.

[-] Ashelyn 8 points 11 months ago

Uh I think you might be off by a few orders of magnitude, I'm pretty sure that, of the roughly 360 million people in the US, 300+ of them do not live in either AL or MS

[-] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

Lol, yes, I said million instead of thousands. Just a little off.

[-] greyhaven7@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

Huntsville, Al has a population of 216,936.

You need to check your math.

[-] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Yeah, I said million and meant thousand - but why are we quibbling over three orders of magnitude?

I was looking at giant numbers all day at work and my brain didn't reset. Sorry about that.

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