Which is the worst state in the United States of America

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I'd rather live in Detroit than lots of other places in MI including every single Detroit suburb.

Florida would have been my knee-jerk vote too if all you've ever been to is the Orlando tourist corridor and several zillion strip malls. Had some good meals there and there's still some examples of great tropical deco architecture.

In short: FL panhandle >>> the rest of FL

Voted Nebraska cause it's between me and cool places in the mountains I want to go to and is flat and featureless and conservative and the food sucks and even the name sounds unpleasant. Nebraska. Ew. Oklahoma was in the running, too. Man does that place have some trash, people-wise. North Dakota, you just have to feel sorry for.

Maybe Oklahoma was spoiled for me because they arrested me 30 seconds after crossing the Arkansas state line.

Maybe I would have enjoyed my visit if I didn't have to sit around in a dingy police station with a teenaged wife-beater (he had been beating her up inside a Wendy's) with whom the local cops were all on an incredibly chummy, first-name basis. They made plans to have a party with the beer they confiscated from him.

Perhaps I would have felt inclined to stop by the visitors bureau if ... OH HELL I GIVE UP! FUCK A BUNCH OF OKLAHOMA! FUCK IT!

That's just how I feel, man.

― kingkongvsgodzilla, Monday, June 4, 2007 11:14 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark

I stand by my opinion.

In short: FL panhandle >>> the rest of FL

wtf. I've only feared for my life once, and that was in the Panhandle.

I'd rather live in Detroit than lots of other places in MI including every single Detroit suburb.

Like anyplace not on a body of water, tbh.

I have fond childhood memories of the UP.

i dunno which state i'd vote for, to be honest. i'm glad no-one is talking shit about New Jersey though (i've expected a Jersey Shore/Jersey-Love-in-the-2000s backlash for the longest time).

i'm kinda tempted to vote for South Carolina, though. i really can't think of anything positive about that state -- not even Myrtle Beach (which is like "Jersey Shore" w/t the charm [read: oompa-loompa guidos]).

i voted delaware just because i don't even know how much money i've paid to that state in credit card $$$ plus tolls on i-95 for the privilege of driving through. i don't like connecticut either.. but from what friends of mine who went to school there have told me, prob should've voted indiana

everyone likes maryland right? maryland is awesome

yeah, delaware is a piece-of-shit on the whole -- on the other hand: (a)rehoboth beach is pretty awesome; (b) i still remember the time during the early 2000s when philly and NJ slapped taxes on cigarettes but DE didn't thereby making a quick SEPTA trip to wilmington a necessity for my nicotine addiction; (c) george thorogood; (d) wilmington is like a super-condensed version of all that's bad & wrong about philly and baltimore, w/t any of either city's redeeming qualities; and (e) i had a real odd Aspie-esque fascination w/ the Delaware Memorial Bridge when i was a little kid.

yeah i looooOOOOooove driving over the del. mem. bridge! it's like flying. other than that delaware's not so great but it's def not the worst. it has the ocean.

well so does florida, but it's not florida

delaware is no florida, it's true

i kind of think of Connecticut the same way that non-NJers think of NJ: nothing interesting enough there to justify a trip or living in the damn place. probably wrong, but there it is.

Wayne Campbell truth bomb

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pvUOrxAlbg

Do go on. I have this morbid curiosity about Oklahoma, especially its panhandle.

― Inculcate a spirit of serfdom in children (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, February 19, 2010 7:18 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark

lol and O_o at this

I really can't hate on any state that has its own subculture, even if it's a reprehensible one. lol exoticism. TX is probably on the top of my 'must visit states' list.

on the other hand, I do hate states with no discernible culture or attraction. I lived in CT for 4 years and jeez there was nothing there. eisbaer otm.

CT=New Haven pizza

lol new haven pizza is overrated imo

gimme a cheesecake with a tastykake in it covered in rita's plz

never had it but my ex-haircutter lady would bitch about how nothing in chicago was anywhere near as good as it. strike against CT for pizza snobbery i guess.

New Haven Pizza really is the best - that's not snobbery, it's the truth

It is pretty good tbh.

if you want better 'za go to japan

; D

Indiana because there's no good reason for Indiana to be as bad as it is.

rehoboth beach is pretty awesome

rehoboth, dewey, the whole delaware shore is underrated. it's a nice place. plus one of the nicest people i know lives in delaware, and she brings up the state average all by herself.

i voted texas because even though you can make a long list of awesome texas things, the combination of oil money and the bush family is a brutal combo that i can't think of another state matching.

Kansas is essentially 400 lateral miles of dirt.

actually wyoming is a close second because they're massively overrepresented in congress and they used that clout to give us dick cheney. assholes.

Wyoming is beautiful and awesome (wingnuts aside).

It took a bajillion posts to see one mention of fuckin KANSAS.

Kansas.. Easy Fail.

Kansas has very little culture of note but it has cryptic desert landscapes and anonymizing winds. I think it's a good place to wipe away your sense of connectedness, which it seems to me is an essential part of the American dream. (Maybe that's a reason to vote for it?)

I voted Indiana because it has everything that's horrible about Michigan: closed-minded West Michiganders, ravaged industrial wastelands, and latent Juggalos everywhere; without any of Michigan's remarkable natural beauty. Except for a few isolated places in the south of the state, the landscape is corny (and it's not even flat enough to be interesting à la west Texas and Oklahoma). The silly time zone intransigence when I lived there was frustrating. THEY TRIED TO LEGISLATE THAT PI = 3 THIS IS UNFORGIVABLY STUPID.

what's the matter with Kansas?

it gave us Barry Sanders and the Embarrassment. Oklahoma has to take this in a walk.

I think this came up before, but it is plainly New Jersey - an entire state that is a suburb to a city in another state.

once you live in new jersey you realize it's actually really awesome and pbbbbbt to the haters tbh

Indiana is FANTASTIC, as close to American-ness as any state I've been to (and I've been to most of those "middle America" states. Good place for escaping for a week / weekend. Huge parts of it are stuck in the fifties / sixties. I could never bring myself to vote for it. I can understand voting for it because of wasted potential. You might say the same for Ohio.

I hate being down on America, I think most stereotypes are unfair. Iowa can't help not being a traveler's paradise. With that in mind, I have to vote Nevada. I hope no one is offended, I had a great time there, it's just that when you have casinos in the frigging toilets you're kind of asking for it.

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Please tell me what parts of Indiana you've been to, u s steel. Because your descriptions are not representative of most parts of Indiana. Bloomington is one of the few areas I would spend any time defending. Most of the rest of the state is a slowly degrading horror and should be turned into a parking lot for the surrounding states.

once you live in new jersey you realize it's actually really awesome and pbbbbbt to the haters tbh

JERSEY'S WHERE AMERICA'S AT!

My car broke down in a snow storm on the Indiana toll road in the middle of the night while driving two foreign exchange students to Maryland. We were out for a while, but didn't see any cops, so we decided to try hitchhiking. We were picked up by a guy who was happy to drop us off at a hotel for the night, but who explained very calmly and patiently that we were going to roast in the fires of damnation for not believing that Jesus Christ was the son of god. Granted, you could get this anywhere.

The town we stayed in, Chesterton, seemed very nice in the small town 1950s style that us steel describes, but going along with that was a well-founded suspicion that we were being looked at funny because some of us had brown skin.

Again, that could happen in many, many places in America though.

once you live in new jersey you realize it's actually really awesome and pbbbbbt to the haters tbh

RILLY, stop judging NJ because you fucking took the train through Newark, y'all. The true, real, correct answer is Delaware. New Jersey's New Jersey.

Uh....my family lives there and has lived there for, like, decades. I think asking someone where they have "been to" when their family lives there is kind of inappropriate. Not to be rude or hurt your feelings or anything.

but going along with that was a well-founded suspicion that we were being looked at funny because some of us had brown skin.

Well, this is an offense that would've gotten the cops called on you if your car had broken down in front of my high school. There are many parts of Indiana that I would be terrified of if I weren't white (but which still manage to horrify me nonetheless).

Most of the quaintness to be found in Indiana is of the tourist trap, Epcot-esque variety: very knowing and well-maintained. Which is not to say that genuine quaintness can't be found. It's just pretty effing rare in my experience.

The forests and hills and general nature scene in southern Indiana is gorgeous and awesome and worth exploring, if you can manage to evade the hillfolk.

Um, my family lived in places that weren't "tourist trap". What places are these? Not everything about America is about enticing tourists. Rural life is nice to some people, no? It's not about abusing "authentic" looking communities to cater to tourists. I mean, let's just bomb Kansas already.

I don't use the word "quaint" either. I am neither an outsider nor a tourist.

I'm thinking of places like West Baden and Brown County. Places that very heavily cater to tourists and which are surrounded by poverty and rampant bigotry. Any small-ish towns I'm aware of that isn't a tourist trap have been slowly falling apart in recent years and are mostly just depressing. Rural life is fine if that's for you, but I'd argue that hardcore, livin' in the country rural life is pretty much the same no matter where you are, so I'm not harshin' on those people's buzzes.

Ugh. 'isn't' = 'aren't'. See what a Hoosier education gets you?

My parents visited Parke County, Indiana recently for a covered bridge festival and had a really good time. They took pictures of a place called Turkey Run State Park, which looked pretty damn cool.