Norway Says "No Thanks."

[Thumpalumpacus]

You've got it backwards.  You should be villifying Norway for the immigration policy that they were employing for decades.  It's basically the form of immigration that Trump is asking for.  No poor brown folks was the rule of thumb until somewhat recently.   Turns out, if you keep out all the poors, you have a bunch of extra money for your own citizens.

...and then there is California...highest poverty rate in the nation. But failure will never change the mind of a leftist.

According to Wikipedia, that map takes into account cost-of-living factors such as differential housing costs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U....verty_rate

A neat tool here that shows housing costs by percentage of income in each state.