Places of Poverty, of Potential

Mississippi's Golden Triangle

The interactive maps that accompany this story are a follow-up to the author's earlier article (which you can find by scrolling to the bottom of his story) spotlighting an up-and-coming area in Mississippi called the Golden Triangle, but they can be made to show the entire country or specific areas of it. There are few surprises about which regions weigh in at below or above the national median household income or in how that correlates with the areas' African-American population ~ which, in turn (and interestingly but, again, not surprisingly), correlates with antebellum slave-holding. Another map shows the areas that are predicted to gain or lose population (if this piece isn't the one you see when you click on the link, scroll down): http://www.theatlantic.com/james-fallows/