“The county in the United States with the largest assessed valuation [is] Marion County, Kansas. … Marion County happened to have a larger per capita of bank deposits than any other American county. … Yet no man in Marion County was rated as a millionaire, and the jails and poorhouses were practically empty. The great per capita of wealth was actually distributed among the people who earned it.”
—William Allen White, Emporia Gazette, 1912
“The report, by Daniel H. Weinberg, analyzed income data at various geographical levels and found that the region encompassing New York, northern New Jersey, Long Island and parts of Pennsylvania had the highest income inequality of any large metro area.”
—Catherine Rampell, New York Times Economix, 2011.
And yet the country’s would-be liberals continue to look with unalloyed horror at life outside of the nation’s great cities—bought off, as it were, by coffeeshops and sushi bars.
http://viewshed.matinic.us/2011/10/26/265/