1: Mississippi; 2: West Virginia; 3: Alabama; 4: Louisiana; 5 (tie): South Carolina, Tennessee; 7: Kentucky; 8: Arkansas; 9 (tie): Indiana, Michigan, Oklahoma; 12 (tie): Missouri, Texas; 14: Georgia; 15: Ohio; 16: Alaska; 17: North Carolina; 18: Nebraska; 19: North Dakota; 20 (tie): Iowa, South Dakota; 22: Wisconsin; 23 (tie): Pennsylvania, Virginia; 25 (tie): Illinois, Maryland; 27: Kansas; 28: Minnesota; 29: Delaware; 30: Oregon; 31 (tie): Idaho, Washington; 33: Maine; 34: Florida; 35: Wyoming; 36: California; 37: Nevada; 38 (tie): New Hampshire, New York; 40 (tie): D.C., New Jersey; 42: New Mexico; 43: Arizona; 44: Utah; 45: Montana; 46: Rhode Island; 47 (tie): Connecticut, Hawaii; 49: Vermont; 50: Massachusetts; 51: Colorado.
Interestingly, the literacy rates for leaner New England, Oregon and Colorado are the highest in the Union.
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