There are lies, damned lies, statistics, then, there's this article.<p>> Now that we've accounted for the low cost of living in Mississippi, we find that Mississippi ($26,517) is no longer the state with the lowest median income in real terms. New York ($26,152) is now the state with the lowest median income due to its very high cost of living.<p>The amount of fuckery one must do to the data to make New York look more poor than Mississippi is mind blowing.