Louisiana breaks the Deep South trend in that its lowest-income district is not the VRA one, but rather a rural district with a non-Hispanic white majority. So I looked up the other states as well. Except for the 18 specified with their ranking in state, they are indeed the poorest districts in their state. Sometimes lower than a majority-minority district, but more often in states that do not have a majority-minority district.
I used 2019 ACS data, found here.
http://proximityone.com/cd.htmThese are not adjusted for cost of living, and Florida's retiree population makes an appearance.
Democrats represent 16 of these districts, marked +D, exactly 1/3 since 2 states have no majority-NHW districts.
7 of those are either in New England, at-large districts, or both.
2 are only about half-NHW, in Indianapolis and around Baltimore, so I listed the next-poorest as an aside.
Kirkpatrick's Tucson district is just poorer than Gosar's western AZ one now, and then there's the Oregon 2-university district.
The other 5 are inland Northern cities, no surprises.
AL-04 (Gadsden, north), 2nd-poorest in state
AK-AL
AZ-02 (Tucson, Sierra Vista) +D, 3rd-poorest in state
AR-01 (Jonesboro, east)
CA-01 (Chico, Redding), 10th-poorest in state
CO-03 (Pueblo, Grand Junction, west)
CT-03 (New Haven) +D
DE-AL +D
FL-11 (Spring Hill, The Villages), 4th-poorest in state
GA-12 (Augusta), 2nd-poorest in state
HI: none
ID-02 (Boise, Idaho Falls, east)
IL-17 (Quad Cities, Rockford, Peoria) +D
IN-07 (Indianapolis) +D, ~50% NHW
- next-poorest is IN-08 (Evansville, Terre Haute, southwest)
IA-04 (Sioux City, Ames, northwest)
KS-01 (Manhattan, Salina, west)
KY-05 (east), 2nd-poorest nationally
LA-05 (Monroe, Alexandria, northeast)
ME-02 (Lewiston, Bangor, north) +D
MD-02 (Baltimore metro) +D, 2nd-poorest in state, ~50% NHW
- next-poorest is MD-01 (Salisbury, east)
MA-01 (Springfield, west) +D
MI-05 (Flint, Saginaw, Bay City) +D, 2nd-poorest in state
MN-07 (Moorhead, east)
MS-04 (Gulfport, Hattiesburg, south), 2nd-poorest in state
MO-08 (Cape Girardeau, southeast)
MT-AL
NE-03 (Grand Island, Kearney, west)
NV-02 (Reno, north), 3rd-poorest in state
NH-02 (Nashua, Concord, west) +D
NJ-02 (Vineland, Atlantic City, south), 3rd-poorest in state
NM: none
NY-26 (Buffalo) +D, 3rd-poorest in state
NC-05 (formerly Winston-Salem), 2nd-poorest in state
ND-AL
OH-09 (Toledo, Lorain, lakeshore) +D, 2nd-poorest in state
OK-02 (Muskogee, east)
OR-04 (Eugene, Corvallis, south coast) +D
PA-15 (west middle), 3rd-poorest in state
RI-01 (east) +D
SC-07 (Florence, Myrtle Beach, northeast), 2nd-poorest in state
SD-AL
TN-01 (Johnson City, northeast), 2nd-poorest in state
TX-13 (Amarillo, Wichita Falls, northwest), 11th-poorest in state
UT-02 (SLC, St. George, west & south)
VT-AL +D
VA-09 (Blacksburg, southwest)
WA-05 (Spokane, west)
WV-03 (Huntington, south)
WI-03 (Eau Claire, La Crosse) +D, 2nd-poorest in state
WY-AL
