I haven't dug into your stats, but Alaska has the 46th smallest economy and Wyoming the 49th. They don't really have enough of an economy by US standards to have high wealth disparity.
New York is #3.
Connecticut is and exception at #23, but I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of it is finance commuters from Wall St. In New York.
While there are exceptions, that list seems to correlate pretty well with the list of states ranked by GDP.
While probably intentionally non committal, I think your post is still a bit misleading.
You are indeed correct that inequality is correlated with GDP. But interestingly, it's also correlated with median GDP per capita (Connecticut is #1 there iirc). Basically, it counters the assumption that "higher inequality == worse condition for the average folk". I saw a graph that plotted both together, I'll see if I can dig it up.
New York is #3.
Connecticut is and exception at #23, but I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of it is finance commuters from Wall St. In New York.
While there are exceptions, that list seems to correlate pretty well with the list of states ranked by GDP.
While probably intentionally non committal, I think your post is still a bit misleading.