From 1979 to 2012, only four U.S. states -- Alaska, Arkansas, South Dakota and Hawaii -- saw income inequality rise by LESS than 10 percent

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTj9AcwkaKM&w=620&h=315] Cool article in The Atlantic Cities on the growth of American income inequality from 1979 to 2012; essentially, in 1979, there were 11 states (and D.C.) that had rates of inequality (as measured by Gini) that exceeded the rate for the U.S. as a whole. Most of these states were in the South…