In the US, broadband access is most limited in the poorest regions
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Seven of the ten states with the fewest high speed lines per capita are also among the ten poorest states in the country (Alabama, Arkansas, Idaho, Kentucky, Mississippi, Montana, and West Virginia). Six of these same states are among the ten with the fewest Internet users per 100 residents
(Measured in Gross State Product per capita. {New Mexico, also in the bottom 10 in high speed lines per capita, is the 11th poorest state measured by GSP per capita.} Source: FCC, as of June 30, 2005, and US Census Bureau, October 2005. Alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and West Virginia. Source: “Computer and Internet Use in the United States: 2003â€, US Census Bureau, October 2005.)