Most states across the South provide children with far fewer chances of upward mobility: Mobility rates by commuting zones
Note: This figure presents a heat map of the probability that a child reaches the top quintile of the national family income distribution for children conditional on having parents in the bottom quintile of the family income distribution for parents. Children are assigned to commuting zones based on the location of their parents (when the child was claimed as a dependent) irrespective of where they live as adults. This figure is constructed using data from Online Data Table V of Chetty el al., 2014.
Source: Chetty, Raj, Nathaniel Hendren, Patrick Kline, and Emmanuel Saez. 2014. “Where Is the Land of Opportunity? The Geography of Intergenerational Mobility in the United States.” National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper no. 19843, January 2014. https://doi.org/10.3386/w19843.