Feels like welfare money is a pretty high necessity in Mississippi, based on their demographic data. It's pretty damned poor there (not that Favre cares about that, clearly).
Mississippi should favor Puerto Rican statehood if only so the Magnolia State would no longer be basically dead last in every socioeconomic metric imaginable. Alabama easily beats it because it actually has some modestly successful metro areas like Birmingham, Huntsville, Tuscaloosa, and even Montgomery.
The Hyundai that I'm driving around had its final assembly in Montgomery, for example.
Mississippi has nothin'.