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Policy Shop points out that a new Census Bureau report finds that income inequality is highest in the Deep South.

There are a couple lessons to learn from this report. First, it’s clear from one look at this map that some of the most energetic opponents of the Obama administration — the people regularly dismissing progressive policies as “class warfare” — are the same people representing constituents that live in districts with disproportionately high levels of income inequality. AsDavid Callahan mentioned in a recent post on the Affordable Care Act, the people who benefit most from the Obama administration’s proposals are, overwhelmingly, the same people sending representatives to DC to reverse those policies. As I mentioned above, this won’t surprise the cynical observers of U.S. politics.
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Second, we tend to associate inequality more with big cities — home to both the super wealthy and the homeless — rather than rural regions, but in reality the picture is more complex. While it’s true that inequality is worse in cities rather than out in the country, urban areas in Louisiana, Texas, and Georgia are much worse off than cities on the East coast or Rustbelt (with the exception of New York City, to be fair, which is located in the third most unequal county in the entire U.S.).