Which is the worst state in the United States of America

Having BBQ automatically makes you better than any state that has no notable regional cuisine.

^^^^ this

I love MN to death but when I think of MN cuisine I think bratwurst (yay!) and lutefisk (oh HELL NO)

NM is pretty if you like desolate... (i went w/ NJ, btw)

As a westerner, I couldn't vote NJ 'cause of the forests.

I love Philadelphia so much, but if Western PA was an option I'd vote for that in a heartbeat. Pittsburgh is just horrible.

I have to say that I just voted Texas, not because I don't find that it has some amazing things going for it, but because most everything about it is directly in opposition to what I think is awesome.

(except music, etc)

oh and bbq

You people voting Texas when Utah exists are nuts.

i rafted the middle fork of the salmon river in Idaho a few years ago, one of the most beautiful parts of the country. Probably gonna go with ND (for the place) or NJ (for the people) but man some days it's California no contest.

Utah, too, was spared 'cause of its beauty.

xpost utah is gorgeous tho

no kansas hate?

oh and Utah isn't even in the running. Southern UT is one of the best parts of the country, the mormons are a minority group in SLC, and skiing is A++ there.

it is a travesty that oklahoma is so constantly overshadowed by texas in the race for last. oklahoma shares all the bad stuff about texas and absolutely none of the good. they can't even piggyback a claim to texas's bbq reputation because they're too preoccupied with their slimy seafood dredged from shit-colored water.

The Mormons are a minority group in SLC but you wouldn't know that talking to an SLC citizen!

And the rest of Utah is Mormontacular.

yeah, Mormons, as fascinating as they might be, are also completely horrifying to me. So, Utah

I would say southern Idaho is even more Mormon that UT but I'm biased.

it is a travesty that oklahoma is so constantly overshadowed by texas in the race for last. oklahoma shares all the bad stuff about texas and absolutely none of the good. they can't even piggyback a claim to texas's bbq reputation because they're too preoccupied with their slimy seafood dredged from shit-colored water.

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

The only reason Mormons settled in Utah, btw, is once Brigham Young & co. hit the Great Salt Lake, they saw big salty body of water + gulls & thought they'd reached the ocean. So if it wasn't for this freak inland salty lake, Mormons wld be yet another California-based bunch of crazies.

i think any state on an ocean or a great lake should be eliminated from the running.

That eliminates Indiana, which would be my choice.

As for Mormons, New York can also lay claim to birthing their insanity.

Oh Indiana has what, like 6 miles of coastline? Doesn't count.

Idaho is probably boring and has a reputation for crazies (deserved or not) but holy crap does it have some unbelievably beautiful stuff in it.

― joygoat, Thursday, February 18, 2010 4:40 PM (42 minutes ago)

oh hai, it's the little town where one of my uncles lives.

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yah st. george area is brutal but UT might be the best state for National Parks, which makes it one of my faves. Also the main library in SLC is amazing and I ate dinner at a Cracker Barrel with Gary Coleman sitting behind me, who complained to the waittress "i ordered six sugars with my darjeeling tea" so lotsa love for the state.

xpost to abbott

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

well, politically, oklahoma consistently votes as the second most republican state in the union (top honor goes to utah of course) and their policymakers are notorious for bullying abortion-seekers, and then of course you've got their star senator James Inhofe, the godfather of climate science cynicism.

oh and don't let Broadway fool you, when they sing about how the wind "comes sweeping down the plains" what they're really referring to is how it "violently annihilates you and everyone you care about"

ok indiana's coastline is all steel mills and body dumping sites afaik so a vote for that is ok by me.

indiana truly is a horror. even driving through it is like being in some post-apocalyptic horror film...which doesn't save it. Detroit may be a post-apocalyptic hellhole, but it also has a fabulous wealth of culture, still, somehow....

oklahama hope it gets carried away in a fukken tornado

If I was going to be a pop-horror novelist like Stephen King would use Ohio like he uses Maine. I like Ohio, but once you get off the interstates it's pure American Gothic.

having only lived in ny, nj, tn and fl
i am going florida

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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