Which is the worst state in the United States of America

Illinois was unpopular with Republicans and was likely dragged down in its overall ranking by its association with Barack Obama.

oh man, that is repeatedly slamming your forehead into a doorknob stupid

Still voting Arizona.

haha I think arizona woulda done better in 2012

yeah, shocked that only two years ago only one person voted for arizona!

then again, who the hell knows what i would have voted for...

which state is the most racist in America?

West Virginia!

The state with the highest racially charged search rate was West Virginia, where 41 percent of voters chose Keith Judd, a white man who is also a convicted felon currently in prison in Texas, over Obama just this May. Louisiana, Pennsylvania, Mississippi, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, South Carolina, Alabama, and New Jersey rounded out the top 10 most-racist areas, according to the search queries used.

Even if states that are considered fairly liberal, racism is prevalent enough in certain areas to put the entire state high up on the list. "Other areas with high percentages included western Pennsylvania, eastern Ohio, upstate New York and southern Mississippi," Stephens-Davidowitz points out in his New York Times article.

and the original NYT article

western Pennsylvania

otm

ctrl+f .... phew.

of course, we still use excite.com in my state.

Oh, and I suspect a lot of people who say Florida actually mean Orlando. Miami Cubans are funny as hell & their awesome cuisine makes up for a lot.

this is true and even the politics aren't a factor anymore as the cubanos of my grandmother's generation die.

http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/%7Esstephen/papers/RacialAnimusAndVotingSethStephensDavidowitz.pdf

pg 25 ranks the states by his test. hmm is idaho less racist than washington dc, or is this a really, really stupid way to measure things?

this is one of the stupidest academic papers I have ever read

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/files/2014/01/The-United-States-of-Shame.png

I'm assuming "worst at abortion" means least access and longest wait times, right?

ND worst at "ugliest residents", very informative

i can't believe oklahoma didn't take this in a walk. florida, texas and minnesota have all kinds of cool shit (not so sure about indiana)

well to be fair, the recent spate of "it's legal to blatantly kill black people" incidents in Florida make it kind of off-putting

"Gonorrhea"

this is the most ridiculous map

since it says it was made at the University of Alabama, I think "ridiculous" is high praise

also the staffers probably know from experience about getting gonorrhea in Louisiana

Minnesota is the worst at tornados

So is Ohio the "nerdiest state," or is it the worst at being the "nerdiest state," or is this a case of "LOL how do I label map?" or what?

yes

pleated jeans ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

there is no way in hell CA has the worst air quality

lol @ "Iowa U OLD"

No, no, you're the WORST at having air pollution, so you have very little. That is my understanding of how the map works. To have the worst air quality, you'd have to be the BEST at air pollution.

cuba is worst at pleated jeans?

some swanky orange outfits you're handing out there

hey, florida.

must suck to suck at bestiality, in your face washington

"look at me I'm a washingtonianite, I'm gonna fuck this sheep oops I fucked a person by mistake I'm gonna listen to some grunge now" lol idiots

is Idaho worse than Wyoming as far as having, well, no government?

Wow, why is Minnesota so high?

ppl zinging MN posters, plus it's fucking cold and the poll was started in February

All right you crybabies. I could write a list of the good things about Minnesota twice as long as what's about to follow. (Those metered lights on the interstate on-ramps during rush hour are a god send.) But you say you can't understand how anyone in the world could possibly vote against your precious North Star State? You ready to have the truth handed to you in a Lutheran casserole dish? Here's the deal:

• It's not so much the Minnesota Nice as much as it as this intense passive-aggressive attitude that burns just as hot as Texas' xenophobia, but gets away with it since it's not as easily noticeable. Behind every smile is a set of clenched teeth, and not because it's cold either. "Ah, it's no problem ta fix your flat far ya. Happy to do it. Now, don't be worryin' 'bout my back tomorrow day while you're havin' fun at the state fair."

• It's cold. You look at the bank thermometer and think, "Oh, good. It's back up above zero now." If you enjoy getting slapped in the face every time you step outside, you'll love Minnesota!

• For every Wellstone elected, you get a Grams, Dayton, Quist, Grunseth, Ventura, Bachman, Pawlenty or Coleman in its place. Face it, take away Ramsey and Hennepin Counties, and let's see just how "blue" this supposedly traditionally liberal state stays.

• You can't park anywhere between Halloween and May Day.

• True, Mpls has one of the niftiest skylines around, but the Twin Cities are just as guilty as Atlanta or Dallas as one of the most sprawl-worthy metros in the country. Spend a week in Edina and then try to tell me again that Minnesota doesn't deserve any points in this poll.

• One good effective way of suicide in the North Star State is to carry a bottle of whiskey with you into the woods, take a seat underneath a tall tree, stare at the moon and stars while you drink your bottle, and in the morning, you will wake up dead, having froze to death.

• Minnesotans can't hold their liquor. Ranks high with Alaska and Nevada as top destination for insufferable alcoholics.

• That said, you can't buy a bottle of whiskey in Mpls after eight on a weeknight or ten on a Saturday. Have fun trying to find some hard stuff on a Sunday. Now that's progressive!

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• Swedes on the prairie amusing themselves with "stunts" such as what happens when a German attempts to catch a chicken or singing "Mine Fair Thee Well" accompanied by a player piano.

• Anything south of I-94 really needs to be evaluated here. Spend a week in Wilmar. Fly to Fergus Falls. Summer in Redwood Falls. If an earthquake hits, don't worry, because nothing will fall upon you.

• Be sure to visit scenic Austin, Minn., where the smell of Spam will overpower and kill you.

• Spam and lutefisk. My gosh, throw a cold Pig's Eye in there and you've got yourself some fine cuisine!

• Sinclair Lewis was right. Also, he was an ornery, grotesque little fuck.

• All road construction is done during a six-week period in late-June, early-July, when the high temperature threatens to break 80. Prepare yourself for an endless supply of "orange barrel=state tree" jokes.

• Oh, hey, a pile of potatoes and onions.

• 10,000 lakes. About half of them are man-made. The rest are what the other 49 states call "ponds".

• Real or not, those lakes attract mosquitos the size of dragonflies.

• 1984 was the greatest year for music. Mpls inspired the rest of the country, and artists such as Janet Jackson to the Goo Goo Dolls carry the influences of that time to this day. Anything that happened after 1984 isn't worth mentioning and if you weren't there in 1984, you may as well just give up the subject.

• You say Bob Dylan is also from Minnesota? Well, I'll be. Guess he loved it so much, that's why he changed his name and never mentioned the state again after leaving.

• The Mall of America. If you ever wanted to walk from a Hooters to a children's playground without stepping foot outside, then this is the place for you. Be sure to bring your GPS.

• I mean, fuck. It's fucking cold.

• Check out the bodies of the cars that pass you on the freeway. See all that rust? Man, it must be great to live in a place where you're driving on salt for half the year. In case you were wondering how indoor car washes stay so busy during winter.

• The Twins won their two World Series because some friendly Minnesotan kept messing with the thermostat. The Vikings have Bret Favre throwing interceptions for them. The hockey team used to be the North Stars before getting moved to Dallas, but have since been replaced with something simply known as THE WILD. And the Timberwolves? Do you really want me to go there?

• They honest-to-God made a statue of Mary Tyler Moore, plunked it down in the middle of Nicolett Avenue and now promote it as a tourist destination.

• The Mississippi River is three feet wide in Minnesota. Had Mark Twain lived there, he probably would've wrote haikus or some shit.

• See that soot-covered snow bank in the corner of the parking lot? It's been there since the middle of football season and you're going to have to look at it every day from now until Easter.

• There was not a damn thing exaggerated in Fargo. People are really like that in Minnesota.

• The Minnesota State Fair is really not that unique. They carve shit out of butter at other fairs. There are plenty of rides at other fairs. You can get a fried twinkie basically on any street corner in St. Louis. Minnesotans think it's neat and nifty just because it's the only time they ever leave the house.

• Didja know F. Scott Fitzgerald's from St. Paul? He's the guy who committed his wife to an insane asylum where she was burned alive.

• Really, it's the Favre thing that earned Minnesota so many votes. That, and it's fucking cold there.

All that said, I still voted for Texas.

― •••••••• (Pleasant Plains), Thursday, March 4, 2010 3:21 PM (3 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

there is no way in hell CA has the worst air quality

― Ayn Rand Akbar (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, January 10, 2014 8:27 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i bet the clean regions in norcal make up some ground but

By Ozone
#1: Los Angeles-Long Beach-Riverside, CA
#2: Visalia-Porterville, CA
#3: Bakersfield-Delano, CA
#4: Fresno-Madera, CA
#5: Hanford-Corcoran, CA
#6: Sacramento--Arden-Arcade--Yuba City, CA-NV
#7: Houston-Baytown-Huntsville, TX
#8: Dallas-Fort Worth, TX
#9: Washington-Baltimore-Northern Virginia, DC-MD-VA-WV
#10: El Centro, CA
#11: San Diego-Carlsbad-San Marcos, CA
#11: Merced, CA
#13: Modesto, CA
#14: Cincinnati-Middletown-Wilmington, OH-KY-IN
#14: Birmingham-Hoover-Cullman, AL
#16: Las Vegas-Paradise-Pahrump, NV
#17: Louisville-Jefferson County-Elizabethtown-Scottsburg, KY-IN
#17: New York-Newark-Bridgeport, NY-NJ-CT-PA
#19: Charlotte-Gastonia-Salisbury, NC-SC
#20: Oklahoma City-Shawnee, OK
#20: Philadelphia-Camden-Vineland, PA-NJ-DE-MD
#20: Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX
#23: Phoenix-Mesa-Glendale, AZ
#24: Pittsburgh-New Castle, PA
#25: San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles, CA
#25: Tulsa-Bartlesville, OK
#25: St. Louis-St. Charles-Farmington, MO-IL

By Year Round Particle Pollution
#1: Bakersfield-Delano, CA
#1: Merced, CA
#3: Fresno-Madera, CA
#4: Hanford-Corcoran, CA
#4: Los Angeles-Long Beach-Riverside, CA
#6: Modesto, CA
#7: Visalia-Porterville, CA
#8: Pittsburgh-New Castle, PA
#9: El Centro, CA
#10: Cincinnati-Middletown-Wilmington, OH-KY-IN
#11: Philadelphia-Camden-Vineland, PA-NJ-DE-MD
#12: Louisville-Jefferson County-Elizabethtown-Scottsburg, KY-IN
#12: St. Louis-St. Charles-Farmington, MO-IL
#14: Canton-Massillon, OH
#14: Macon-Warner Robins-Fort Valley, GA
#14: Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ
#14: Fairbanks, AK
#18: Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Gainesville, GA-AL
#18: Phoenix-Mesa-Glendale, AZ
#20: Cleveland-Akron-Elyria, OH
#20: Indianapolis-Anderson-Columbus, IN
#22: Steubenville-Weirton, OH-WV
#22: Wheeling, WV-OH
#24: Dayton-Springfield-Greenville, OH
#24: Birmingham-Hoover-Cullman, AL

By Short-Term Particle Pollution
#1: Bakersfield-Delano, CA
#2: Fresno-Madera, CA
#3: Hanford-Corcoran, CA
#4: Los Angeles-Long Beach-Riverside, CA
#5: Modesto, CA
#6: Salt Lake City-Ogden-Clearfield, UT
#7: Pittsburgh-New Castle, PA
#8: Merced, CA
#9: Fairbanks, AK
#10: Logan, UT-ID
#11: Provo-Orem, UT
#12: Stockton, CA
#13: Las Cruces, NM
#14: Visalia-Porterville, CA
#14: Eugene-Springfield, OR
#16: Chicago-Naperville-Michigan City, IL-IN-WI
#17: Seattle-Tacoma-Olympia, WA
#17: Green Bay, WI
#19: Indianapolis-Anderson-Columbus, IN
#19: Harrisburg-Carlisle-Lebanon, PA
#21: Phoenix-Mesa-Glendale, AZ
#22: Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ
#23: San Diego-Carlsbad-San Marcos, CA
#24: Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA
#25: South Bend-Elkhart-Mishawaka, IN-MI

lol isn't pleasant plains from wisconsin? SUCH A DIFFERENT STATE FROM MN

lol at pp going spham

I think you've got me confused with someone else, sh@kes.

http://extras.mnginteractive.com/live/media/site569/2012/1205/20121205__121206bielema_400.jpg

well AK is basically the Wisconsin of the South, so

lol I meant AR, gg me

ARGH more like

oklahoma is one of the ugliest places I have seen w/ my own eyes

― iatee, Thursday, February 18, 2010 5:35 PM bookmarkflaglink

as opposed to the states you've seen with other people's eyes?

photo/video/google earth? at least one other pair of eyes will have seen it first

i mean if you're looking at a photo aren't you seeing the photo with your own eyes?

Florida Man Finds 'Worst State' Thread, Picks Fight Over Expression

it has passed through someone else's eyes first, the eyes haven't physically been in the state

my own eyes have been to 7 states in the southwest and northeast, nevada is the one i struggle to remember anything nice about at all. some of the bleakest urban and rural areas i've ever seen. maybe those buffalo-cleansed middle states are even worse - at least florida has some cool sounding non-human residents