Worst state in the US

answer has and always will be texas

― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 25 April 2012 03:21 (1 year ago) Permalink

Ann Richards, Molly Ivins, Jim Hightower, Ralph Yarborough, Ray Wiley Hubbard, the 13th Floor Elevators, Willie Nelson, the Rothko Chapel
v
Marilyn Manson, Marco Rubio

― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 03:23 (1 year ago) Permalink

I can think of some people who are being let off the first list

― iatee, Wednesday, 25 April 2012 03:23 (1 year ago) Permalink

I agree w/ you both that it's between texas and florida tho

― iatee, Wednesday, 25 April 2012 03:24 (1 year ago) Permalink

Worst U.S. State
Which is the worst state in the United States of America

florida by a nose seems fair, it's def worse on a per capita basis

― iatee, Wednesday, 25 April 2012 03:26 (1 year ago) Permalink

proud Mexican-American population turning the state blue eventually
v
Cuban exiles making the rest of the country pretend to give a shit about Florida/Cuba

― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 03:26 (1 year ago) Permalink

come on, az's gotta be in the running these days

― THE KITTEN TYPE (contenderizer), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 03:27 (1 year ago) Permalink

awww, didn't realize it had been that long I would have made a real poll

― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 03:27 (1 year ago) Permalink

yeah arizona got 1 and 0 votes in those two polls, pretty sure that wouldn't happen today

― iatee, Wednesday, 25 April 2012 03:28 (1 year ago) Permalink

Florida wins, have lived 4+ years in FL, TX, IN, & KS so I feel I have some perspective here

― Euler, Wednesday, 25 April 2012 03:28 (1 year ago) Permalink

if you told me that, say, Lawrence KS is a better town than anyplace in Florida I'd gladly believe you

― raw feel vegan (silby), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 03:31 (1 year ago) Permalink

Happy 100th anniversary, Arizona.
"WE WEREN'T ALWAYS THE WORST"

― Dale, dale, dale (Abbbottt), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 03:31 (1 year ago) Permalink

Texas is way too big to be the worst.

― catbus otm (gbx), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 03:34 (1 year ago) Permalink

feel like Texas should get a pass because of Oklahoma - everything you conceivably hate about Texas without any of the good stuff

― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 03:34 (1 year ago) Permalink

central Florida is worse than both Miami & the panhandle because it doesn't even have beaches but it still has lots of roaches, ghastly weather, & too many old people still.

― Euler, Wednesday, 25 April 2012 03:34 (1 year ago) Permalink

well the 'texas is the worst' argument is based on it having the highest total quantity of worstness

― iatee, Wednesday, 25 April 2012 03:36 (1 year ago) Permalink

i think arizona has been winning this in my mind for a couple years now

― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 25 April 2012 03:38 (1 year ago) Permalink

feel like Texas should get a pass because of Oklahoma - everything you conceivably hate about Texas without any of the good stuff

― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Tuesday, April 24, 2012 10:34 PM (17 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

p much

― catbus otm (gbx), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 03:52 (1 year ago) Permalink

I love Florida, it's full of the commercial crassness and development everyone hates but there's something about the semi-tropical air down there. I would never vote Florida!

― โตเกียวเหมียวเหมียว aka Bulgarian Tourist Chamber (Mount Cleaners), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 17:23 (1 year ago) Permalink

gonna defer to bugs bunny on this one

― these pretzels are makeing me horney (Hungry4Ass), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 17:26 (1 year ago) Permalink

it doesn't even have beaches but it still has lots of roaches,

nominating this for fake Hold Steady Lyrics

― fruitsbs (beachville), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 17:28 (1 year ago) Permalink

lawrence kansas is pretty cool!

― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 17:37 (1 year ago) Permalink

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Saturday, 28 April 2012 00:01 (1 year ago) Permalink

if you told me that, say, Lawrence KS is a better town than anyplace in Florida I'd gladly believe you

Lawrence is better than anyplace i've been in FL, try wichita and we're talking

― Guayaquil (eephus!), Saturday, 28 April 2012 01:18 (1 year ago) Permalink

lol i actually thought "i'm going to vote for florida" as i clicked on the thread expecting to see all 50 states as poll options

― some dude, Saturday, 28 April 2012 02:08 (1 year ago) Permalink

also, orlando and tampa are both worse than panhandle and miami

― Guayaquil (eephus!), Saturday, 28 April 2012 02:10 (1 year ago) Permalink

connecticut is the worst state u guys

― lag∞n, Saturday, 28 April 2012 02:10 (1 year ago) Permalink

texas is awesome, florida is unique

― lag∞n, Saturday, 28 April 2012 02:11 (1 year ago) Permalink

for me to poop on

― some dude, Saturday, 28 April 2012 02:17 (1 year ago) Permalink

there's a reason they call it "the sunshine's taint"

― some dude, Saturday, 28 April 2012 02:18 (1 year ago) Permalink

proud Mexican-American population turning the state blue eventually

You're only allowed to say eventually if you expect to see it in your lifetime.

― pplains, Saturday, 28 April 2012 02:19 (1 year ago) Permalink

whites already are <50% in texas and hispanics will def become the majority demographic in our lifetime

― iatee, Saturday, 28 April 2012 02:23 (1 year ago) Permalink

texas would be a fine place w/o white people really

― iatee, Saturday, 28 April 2012 02:23 (1 year ago) Permalink

I understand that. Those proud Hispanics still live in metropolitan cities whose congressional districts look like a Trivia Pursuit pie designed by rural and suburban Republicans.

― pplains, Saturday, 28 April 2012 02:26 (1 year ago) Permalink

cool demos guys

― lag∞n, Saturday, 28 April 2012 02:31 (1 year ago) Permalink

well that's true everywhere, but at least as far as presidential elections go, which is usually what 'go blue' refers to, texas is def a swing state by 2020

― iatee, Saturday, 28 April 2012 02:31 (1 year ago) Permalink

i think it's an odd assumption that most "proud Hispanics" aren't Republicans

― JacobSanders, Saturday, 28 April 2012 02:36 (1 year ago) Permalink

dont mess w

― lag∞n, Saturday, 28 April 2012 02:36 (1 year ago) Permalink

I thought Texas sucked until I moved here. Like it a lot so far.

Florida and CT both suck balls though.

― EZ Snappin, Saturday, 28 April 2012 02:38 (1 year ago) Permalink

are you a proud hispanic?

― iatee, Saturday, 28 April 2012 02:39 (1 year ago) Permalink

No.

― EZ Snappin, Saturday, 28 April 2012 02:40 (1 year ago) Permalink

it's not just an assumption:

As of December 2010, 65% of Latino voters were registered as Democrats and 22% Republican.

not sure how "pride" skews this, but...

― Choc. Clusterman (contenderizer), Saturday, 28 April 2012 02:40 (1 year ago) Permalink

I've seen in texas that Republicans play to the fact that most Hispanics are catholic and largely anti-abortion, as well as with other moral issues, even if their interest aren't really at the heart with what Hispanics want from a representative.

― JacobSanders, Saturday, 28 April 2012 02:44 (1 year ago) Permalink

'did you know we might have similar views on some subjects' is not gonna cut it when the gop base is 'racists'

― iatee, Saturday, 28 April 2012 02:47 (1 year ago) Permalink

the republican portion of the latino vote is disproportionately cuban, so in states where the cuban population is low, the hispanic vote is even more strongly democratic

― Choc. Clusterman (contenderizer), Saturday, 28 April 2012 02:54 (1 year ago) Permalink

bbq is good

― lag∞n, Saturday, 28 April 2012 02:56 (1 year ago) Permalink

bbq is good

― JacobSanders, Saturday, 28 April 2012 02:59 (1 year ago) Permalink

connecticut is the worst state u guys

― lag∞n, Friday, April 27, 2012 10:10 PM (35 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

f u man ct is pretty awesome

― dharunravir (k3vin k.), Saturday, 28 April 2012 02:59 (1 year ago) Permalink

haha sry but i h8 conn

― lag∞n, Saturday, 28 April 2012 03:00 (1 year ago) Permalink

Maybe not even a suburb, CT. I'm used to miles and miles of access roads with Best Buys and Texas Roadhouses. Those are a blight, sure.

But in CT, I felt like I was driving past miles and miles of fenced backyards and overpasses barely 12 feet tall.

I looked it up - I was on the Merritt Parkway. Not saying it was ugly, just amazing that it never felt once like I was out of the burbs, especially after a week of driving around Vermont, NH and Maine.

― pplains, Saturday, 28 April 2012 18:25 (1 year ago) Permalink

wth were u doin

chick in portland, but that's neither here nor there.

― pplains, Saturday, 28 April 2012 18:26 (1 year ago) Permalink

oh ha i thought u meant u drove between all those places and only stopped at friendlies

― lag∞n, Saturday, 28 April 2012 18:27 (1 year ago) Permalink

merritt pkwy is a quality road imho, no trucks allowed

― lag∞n, Saturday, 28 April 2012 18:28 (1 year ago) Permalink

merrit parkway is awesome

― dayo, Saturday, 28 April 2012 18:31 (1 year ago) Permalink

such a stark contrast to 95

― dayo, Saturday, 28 April 2012 18:32 (1 year ago) Permalink

Sorry to anyone who lives there but the only time I ever went to Arkansas (Little Rock) it really seemed like a bad alternate dimension.

Would like to hear more about this. Not as a defensive citizen of the LR Metro, but as a fan of bad alternate dimensions.

I don't know, I was on tour and we only spent a day or so. I got off a bus in downtown Little Rock on a Saturday night in the summertime and the whole way in the place was just eerily unpopulated. Nobody, absolutely nobody, was walking around, hanging out, or anything at all. When we got out of the bus there was one old guy that stepped out of a video store and told us we were in the middle of nowhere. All the kids we met were real nice and it was fun, but everyone seemed to have kind of given up in general or something. I don't know, weird vibes.

But yeah basing a perception on a state on one day's experience with a dozen or so locals. Kinda silly.

― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 28 April 2012 18:32 (1 year ago) Permalink

such a stark contrast to 95

― dayo, Saturday, April 28, 2012 2:32 PM (35 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah it doesnt have the malls n casual dining chains cause it parallels 95 where they all are

― lag∞n, Saturday, 28 April 2012 18:32 (1 year ago) Permalink

Yeah, downtown N/LR can give off a "Night of the Comet" vibe sometimes. I hear ya.

I took Merritt to get off of 95. Just didn't realize that it wasn't a backroad, I guess.

One of my favorite vacations. Drove up to Brooklyn. Took the really long way to Portland. Had an interesting time which included a cameo appearance by 80s rock band The Tubes. Drove too quickly back through Boston/RI/CT and back to NYC.

Then back home where Tennessee really is the longest state east of the Mississippi.

― pplains, Saturday, 28 April 2012 18:38 (1 year ago) Permalink

vt is legit beautiful ime although nh is kinda w/e it still has a more authentic new england backwoods charm. i grew up in a really lovely part of ct but its unrelentingly square and ersatz colonial

― Lamp, Friday, April 27, 2012 10:24 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

nh is so much more raw than vt, maybe not as bucolic but the most scenic parts owne

whites >>> greens, fuiud

― catbus otm (gbx), Saturday, 28 April 2012 18:52 (1 year ago) Permalink

racist

― dharunravir (k3vin k.), Saturday, 28 April 2012 19:02 (1 year ago) Permalink

new hampshire is the worst because of their presidential primaries tbh

― dharunravir (k3vin k.), Saturday, 28 April 2012 19:02 (1 year ago) Permalink

isn't it filled w/ libertarians

― iatee, Saturday, 28 April 2012 19:03 (1 year ago) Permalink

gbx went to dartmouth and is best friends w/dick cheney fyi so take that into consideration when weighing his important vt/nh opinions

― lag∞n, Saturday, 28 April 2012 19:07 (1 year ago) Permalink

^^
..
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― dharunravir (k3vin k.), Saturday, 28 April 2012 19:11 (1 year ago) Permalink

he did dick cheney's open-heart surgery, didn't you know?!?

― a big fat fucking fat guy in a barrel what could be better? (Eisbaer), Saturday, 28 April 2012 19:44 (1 year ago) Permalink

dick cheney shot gbx in the face?

― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Saturday, 28 April 2012 19:50 (1 year ago) Permalink

all of my grandparents live in ct and when i read lag∞n's thing about wasps i did not even think of WASPs because i remembered there were a lot of wasps in my grandma's backyard and said to myself, "i didn't know that all of connecticut had a lot of wasps"

― kneel aurmstrong (harbl), Saturday, 28 April 2012 19:57 (1 year ago) Permalink

just try to get out of that state w/o getting a nasty sting u cant

― lag∞n, Saturday, 28 April 2012 19:58 (1 year ago) Permalink

i went to mystic seaport when i was a little kid, and to a fancy hotel there about 10 years ago for a convention. those two times are the only significant amounts of time i've ever spent in CT.

― a big fat fucking fat guy in a barrel what could be better? (Eisbaer), Saturday, 28 April 2012 20:03 (1 year ago) Permalink

ct has the best pizza and it has beaches with lots of jellyfish

― kneel aurmstrong (harbl), Saturday, 28 April 2012 20:07 (1 year ago) Permalink

mystic seaport is cool

groton not so much

― los blue jeans, Saturday, 28 April 2012 20:21 (1 year ago) Permalink

You know what state I know nothing about? Idaho. What's the deal with Idaho?

I live extremely close to Idaho and kind of love it because it's amazingly beautiful and has a lot of cool stuff going for it and think it's pretty underrated in a lot of ways.

On the other hand it's very reactionary in a crazy libertarian way in the north and in a religious nutjob way in the south and combining these turns it into one of those states that means it'll be like one of the last five to ever legalize gay marriage.

It does seem to have lost a lot of it's explicit racist / separatist vibe over the last 20 years or so, with Arizona picking up a lot of the slack in terms of being the scary western cowboy state. Though there is an actual KKK guy running for county sheriff in one of the counties near the Canadian border right now.

― joygoat, Saturday, 28 April 2012 20:34 (1 year ago) Permalink

One of my dad's brothers retired to Idaho (Riggins), opened a little gas station there to keep busy, and lives right on the Salmon River. Most idyllic place I've ever been. It would be easy to spend entire decades just sitting in a lawn chair out back, sipping a cold drink, reading a book and waving at the rafters and innertubers floating past.

― improvised explosive advice (WmC), Saturday, 28 April 2012 21:50 (1 year ago) Permalink

Then diving in at that little bend in the river where they always tip over and scoring mad coin, watches, and jewelry.

― frogsclovetofu (beachville), Saturday, 28 April 2012 22:11 (1 year ago) Permalink

I guess I have been to Idaho before and it is pretty in an oh my god I'm going to fall into a ravine sort of way. though I do remember stopping at some backwoods diner that did have a backroom emblazoned wIth confederate flags. Figured it was a klan klubhouse, tbh.

― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 28 April 2012 22:16 (1 year ago) Permalink

ct has the best pizza
this is true

― billstevejim, Saturday, 28 April 2012 22:31 (1 year ago) Permalink

Seeing the thread title made me wonder what was the most innocuous U.S. state. Probably Delaware.

― "Fourvel - it's like Fievel, but one less." (R Baez), Saturday, 28 April 2012 22:35 (1 year ago) Permalink

It does seem to have lost a lot of it's explicit racist / separatist vibe over the last 20 years or so, with Arizona picking up a lot of the slack in terms of being the scary western cowboy state. Though there is an actual KKK guy running for county sheriff in one of the counties near the Canadian border right now.

I spent ages 7-22 in Idaho, Ruby Ridge, neonazis, all that. Moved to NM and had to work really hard to convince non-white friends that being from Idaho didn't mean I was going to be a violent racist (tho I don't really blame them for thinking that, I mean my fucking aunt just bought an "anti-Obama gun" *96 tears*). I got accepted into University of Arizona two months before SB1070 and now I'm living here. I feel like I have this weird curse of living in the wild west hot spots of odious racist news.

― Dale, dale, dale (Abbbottt), Saturday, 28 April 2012 22:48 (1 year ago) Permalink

that's it icey, next time i reprogram dick's pacemaker i'm setting him to "kill"

...kill YOU

― catbus otm (gbx), Saturday, 28 April 2012 22:53 (1 year ago) Permalink

Seeing the thread title made me wonder what was the most innocuous U.S. state. Probably Delaware.

hahahahaha ... no.

― a big fat fucking fat guy in a barrel what could be better? (Eisbaer), Saturday, 28 April 2012 23:44 (1 year ago) Permalink

Probably Vermont, but I wanna say that Maryland is somewhere in the running.

― frogsclovetofu (beachville), Saturday, 28 April 2012 23:49 (1 year ago) Permalink

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Sunday, 29 April 2012 00:01 (1 year ago) Permalink

i'd probably say Maine in a pinch if i had to name a "most innocuous US state."

i look at Miami as a sort of West Berlin, surrounded by the East Germany that is the rest of Florida. that's how i see Atlanta, too, come to think of it.

― a big fat fucking fat guy in a barrel what could be better? (Eisbaer), Sunday, 29 April 2012 00:31 (1 year ago) Permalink

Lol yeah i can see that. Tho I think you can miss out on some real treats with that attitude. Athens, Savannah, all the cool waterfalls and caves in the mountains of North GA. And Macon, which I've only been to once, but any town where you can see the Allman bros. graves in beautiful Rose Hill Cemetery, shop at the official Otis Redding store, and visit Indian Mounds is pretty damn cool.

― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 29 April 2012 00:50 (1 year ago) Permalink

Carrollton's nice too.

― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 29 April 2012 00:51 (1 year ago) Permalink

i'd probably say Maine in a pinch if i had to name a "most innocuous US state."

Maine's where that killer demon clown killed all those kids. Also where the four kids found that dead body in the woods.

― "Fourvel - it's like Fievel, but one less." (R Baez), Sunday, 29 April 2012 00:53 (1 year ago) Permalink

i personally look to the midwest for my innocuousness

― lag∞n, Sunday, 29 April 2012 01:02 (1 year ago) Permalink

i might've said a Midwest state as an example of innocuousness too ... until the denizens of several such states went & elected evil asshats like Scott Walker, Michelle Bachmann and Steve King.

― a big fat fucking fat guy in a barrel what could be better? (Eisbaer), Sunday, 29 April 2012 02:19 (1 year ago) Permalink

Probably Vermont, but I wanna say that Maryland is somewhere in the running.

Ha, yes, I'll consider this next time I'm hanging out in Fredneck.

― pplains, Sunday, 29 April 2012 03:03 (1 year ago) Permalink

Hawaii seems pretty innocuous

― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Sunday, 29 April 2012 03:08 (1 year ago) Permalink

Queen Liliʻuokalani would like to have a word with you.

― pplains, Sunday, 29 April 2012 03:14 (1 year ago) Permalink

Idaho has three essential things, at least:
- The caldera entrance to Twin Falls
- SR 95 from Boise to Coeur D'Alene. It takes forever and it's so pretty.
- Priest Lake

On a cultural level, eh. Built To Spill play Seattle more often than most Seattle bands. And Boise is a loooong drive, if that gives perspective.
That KKK sheriff candidate is probably running in the same county as Priest Lake, to be fair.

― ma ck ro ma ck ro (mackro mackro), Sunday, 29 April 2012 04:14 (1 year ago) Permalink

I crossed SR 95 a couple of times today actually as I do most weekends. And as for your guess regarding the KKK sheriff candidate you would be absolutely correct.

I've lived here for almost six years now and I've been to Seattle and Portland dozens of times but have yet to go to Boise.

being from Idaho didn't mean I was going to be a violent racist

I love talking to people in my hometown, in rural-ass upper michigan, about Idaho and having them all freak out about how crazy and backwoods and racist it obviously must be while not realizing that they live in a far more crazy and occasionally racist backwoods place.

― joygoat, Sunday, 29 April 2012 06:56 (1 year ago) Permalink

Ha, yes, I'll consider this next time I'm hanging out in Fredneck.

― pplains, Saturday, April 28, 2012 11:03 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Have you seriously had to hang out in Frederick for some reason?

― frogsclovetofu (beachville), Sunday, 29 April 2012 09:51 (1 year ago) Permalink

the caldera entrance to twin falls is something to behold, it's true

twin falls, in general, is a very, deeply, strange place

― catbus otm (gbx), Sunday, 29 April 2012 18:16 (1 year ago) Permalink

Never hung out in Frederick though I have hung out a little in the panhandle and "innocuous" wouldn't be the word I'd use to describe it.

(but isn't all of Maryland a panhandle, ami rite.)

― pplains, Sunday, 29 April 2012 18:40 (1 year ago) Permalink

there is a lot of panhandling going on, yes

― kneel aurmstrong (harbl), Sunday, 29 April 2012 18:57 (1 year ago) Permalink

Maryland really got screwed when they were handing out boundaries.

― pplains, Sunday, 29 April 2012 19:04 (1 year ago) Permalink

If this poll was strictly about boundaries, it'd get my vote.

― pplains, Sunday, 29 April 2012 19:04 (1 year ago) Permalink