claim: "97 percent of the 100 poorest counties in america are in red states."
author: facebook posts
evidence_1: jul 29, 2014 ... 97 out of the 100 poorest counties in the united states are in red states. politifact  recently fact checked a meme created by the liberal facebook page 'occupy  democrats' which said: “97 percent of the 100 poorest counties in america are in  red states. but tell me again how republican policies grow the ...
evidence_2: dec 14, 2016 ... the claim i'd like to explore here is that 97% of the poorest 100 counties are in  republican states, a claim which apparently originated from a political ... blue  states tend to be sliced into smaller numbers of counties than red states, so they 're going to be overrepresented in any list of the top “x” poorest or ...
evidence_3: this is a list of the lowest-income counties in the united states. note: this list  does not include unincorporated territories of the united states. contents. [hide].  1 100 counties with lowest per capita income; 2 100 counties/parishes with  lowest median household income; 3 see also; 4 references. 100 counties with  lowest per ...
evidence_4: nov 20, 2017 ... the company hired to repair puerto rico's electrical grid stopped working  monday over $83 million in unpaid bills while some utility crews from the  mainland u.s. quit the half-finished reconstruction job altogether.
evidence_5: jan 10, 2015 ... in each state, there was at least one county with a median annual household  income more than $7,000 lower than the state's median income. virginia and  maryland had counties with median incomes over $35,000 lower than that of the  state. 24/7 wall st. reviewed the poorest county in each state based on ...