Image credit: New Geography
This map, published by Richard Morrill in New Geography, shows the GINI coefficient, a measure of income inequality, for the nation’s major metro areas. Regions with low GINI numbers, shown in blue, have the least unequal incomes.
Note how the three Virginia metros — including Washington, Richmond and Hampton Roads — create a big patch of blue, making it the largest swath of low-inequality east of the Mississippi.
(In reference to PeterG’s post below, I wonder what Bishop Sullivan would have said about that!)
— JAB
