This weekend's Wall Street Journal touts the culural renaissance of New Jersey, which has been attracting high income, highly educated residents.

New Jersey is America's secret treasure-house of culture.

If that strikes you as a proposition out of an absurdist play, consider a sampling of the gifted figures who have either come from Jersey or made a home there: Bruce Springsteen (N.J.'s state songbird); Frank Sinatra, Frankie Valli; Walt Whitman, William Carlos Williams, Allen Ginsberg; the painters George Inness and John Marin; the photographer Alfred Stieglitz; Stephen Crane, Philip Roth, Junot Díaz; and David Chase, creator of "The Sopranos."

...Which brings to mind this study from Princeton University, which indetifies the states LEAST like Jersey. (See esepcially pages 22 and 23. )

On the other hand, there are states that tend to attract low‐income individuals, while seeing a relative outflow (or much smaller inflow) of wealthy individuals.

Wisconsin is a good example, shown in Graph 5 below. At low income levels, there is strong net in‐migration into Wisconsin; however, at higher income levels, in‐migration is small or negative. Hence, one can say that Wisconsin is more attractive to low‐income individuals than high‐income earners.