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Meaning what exactly? Higher cost of living = lower or greater MUDing likelihood? Higher average income = lower or greater MUDing likelihood? Can you point to some sort of correlating data?
The reason I ask is because if it's correlated to high income and low cost of living, then California would suffer in comparison. Texas has a reasonably low cost of living (compared to California, at least). The states with the highest per-capita incomes are mainly east coast, and Texas is in the bottom half of the states in terms of average income. There's a huge difference in terms of cost of living and per capita income between California and Texas. MUDing is unlikely to be correlated to low-income too, as then we'd see a lot more deep south players.
The problem is a total lack of reliable data on MUD players. Really, the only person I'm aware of who is doing long-ish term studies with any credibility on the demographics/ethnographics of MUD players is Nick Yee at PARC, but his work isn't without some problems, particularly in the method he uses to gather data (opt-in studies).
--matt
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