Map of the day: Middle-class stagnation? Well, Americans have managed to get pretty fat over the last 25 years

Map of the day: Middle-class stagnation? Well, Americans have managed to get pretty fat over the last 25 years | AEIdeas:
"The map shows the percentages of the U.S. population medically defined as obese, which means a body mass index of 30 or greater, by state, from 1985 to 2010.
Stagnating middle-class?
Flat real household income?
Decline of the middle-class?
The rich getting richer, poor getting poorer?
Judging by the availability of cheap calories and the increase in obesity, the poor and the middle class must be doing pretty well today."