US/European state comparison #5: Ireland is most like what U.S. state?

[dead0man]

Population in the CO,AL,SC,LA,KY area.  Land size in the SC,ME,WV area.  Closest to AL,CN,LA in total GDP.  Since Alabama is full of Irish, it's got to be Alabama.  But that's kind of mean to Ireland.  So....Georgia it is.

[dead0man]

Closest to AL,CN,LA in total GDP.  

Ireland GDP (2007)
IMF: $261 billion
World Bank: $255 billion

According to wiki, which seems to be sourcing the US Bureau of Economic Analysis, the figures for the states you cite are:
Connecticut: $216 billion
Louisiana: $216 billion
Alabama: $166 billion

But Minnesota ($255 billion) and Maryland ($269 billion) are much closer to the Irish figures.

Wiki gave me $188 billion for Ireland.  link

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[/quote]My apologies.  I've always heard the south is full of Scots-Irish and just went with that assumption.

[dead0man]

I've changed my vote to Conn.