The New York Times published an interactive map of food-stamp usage in the United States over the weekend.

I wasn’t surprised to see my home state of West Virginia covered in shades of blue, the color representing the higher percentages of food stamps per capita. But other parts of the country, including the part of Kentucky that borders West Virginia, have it much worse. Not surprisingly, the South appears to have the greatest percentage of people on welfare.

The bottom line from the Times: “The number of food-stamp recipients has climbed by about 10 million over the past two years, resulting in a program that now feeds 1 in 8 Americans and nearly 1 in 4 children.”