2008-05-10

Upcoming Primary: WV

Hillary Clinton likes to tout her advantage among "hard-working" Americans.  I'm not quite sure what hard-working means, but she's said many times that the people of West Virginia fall into this group.

I think we could agree that people who work harder than average would be more likely to produce more goods and services.  To wit, we can look at the GDP of West Virginia in comparison to the rest of the United States.  I looked up the GDP per capita (per person) for the state, and found that it was 2nd to last, ahead of only Mississippi.  

That means that the people in WV produce less goods and services than 48/50 states (and less than DC).  Hard-working my ass.


1 comment:

Anonymous said...

That's funny. WV is a bunch of Hillbillies.