Is the United Kingdom really poorer than Mississippi ? Have the Brits truly sunk to the point where, if they were to join the United States, they would be the 51st state out of 51?

Douglas Carswell, director of the Mississippi Center for Public Policy, first made this claim in 2023. A Conservative and then UK Independence Party member of Parliament, Carswell was so horrified by the severity of the lockdown in Britain that, in 2021, he emigrated to Jackson.

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His assertion caused a lot of injured pride in Britain, where commentators were quick to point out that, while the raw data might show that

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