Gulf South states have the most dollar stores per capita
Mississippi has about three dollar stores (counting Dollar General, Dollar Tree and Family Dollar for every 10,000 people that live in the state).
A horizontal bar graph shows Mississippi has 3.03 dollar stores per ten thousand people living in the state, the highest of any state. Alabama came in third with 2.47 stores. Louisiana was 5th with 2.36 stores. The national average is 1.06.