Worst state in the US

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Texas is way too big to be the worst.

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

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.

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

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

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

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!

gonna defer to bugs bunny on this one

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

nominating this for fake Hold Steady Lyrics

lawrence kansas is pretty cool!

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

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

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

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

connecticut is the worst state u guys

texas is awesome, florida is unique

for me to poop on

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

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.

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

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

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.

cool demos guys

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

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

dont mess w

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

Florida and CT both suck balls though.

are you a proud hispanic?

No.

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...

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.

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

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

bbq is good

bbq is good

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

haha sry but i h8 conn

what we do

yeah i mean is there anything specifically wrong with CT or is it a vague 'new england sucks in general, let's pick on one state with no obvious saving grace' thing

Tough call -- there are more places in FL than TX that would tempt me into venturing into the state. But Texas' temptation (Austin/Lockhart) is stronger.

I don't know if it's a hipster cliche or something but I'd like to visit Marfa.

dick cheney shot gbx in the face?

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"

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

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.

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

mystic seaport is cool

groton not so much

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.

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.

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

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.

ct has the best pizza
this is true

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

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.

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

...kill YOU

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

hahahahaha ... no.

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

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

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.

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.

Carrollton's nice too.

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.

i personally look to the midwest for my innocuousness

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.

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.

Hawaii seems pretty innocuous

Queen Liliʻuokalani would like to have a word with you.

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.

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.

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?

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

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

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.)

there is a lot of panhandling going on, yes

Maryland really got screwed when they were handing out boundaries.

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

Alabama

truth is there are about 20 states that all fucking terrible

yeah but the answer is Alabama

i can't say i'm an AL expert but i'll cop to never finding much redeemable there in the way i could w/ GA, LA, TN and even godforsaken MS.

every state that isn't obscenely wealthy is str8 trash

TN should just annex the north part that has muscle shoals and huntsville in it, which would basically resolve the question completely

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, Friday, April 27, 2012 9:31 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Only way this happens, btw, is if Hillary runs as a Republican next time.

Alabama has some amazing thrift stores and Hank William's gravesite is a must see. from my experience Birmingham is a cool city. everywhere else is college football land).

imo it's not as picturesque as the surrounding states that get more into the lower Appalachians, just kind of flat country dotted with Flying Js and the fireworks superstores with the tall facades.

Florida as a collective whole is crap (though I will admit I've only lived in a very small radius of it) but there are really dope areas of FL.

so a belated "eff these poll options".

• Alabama has more freshwater biodiversity than any other state.

• Bear Bryant was born in Arkansas.

About as good as I'm going to get this morning complementing Alabama.

I have a shitload of nice stuff to say about very specific aspects of small parts of Alabama - I was born and raised there, duh - but I mean, no, Alabama is bad. It's the worst. It's a tight race with Mississippi sometimes but really, Alabama.

I wouldn't call it the worst state. It definitely has fewer cowbells than Mississippi, for example.

Pointing out that Tennessee should annex North Alabama made me think of this turn-of-the-century arena football team, based in Huntsville.

https://image.ibb.co/hpdXok/Tennessee_Valley_Vipers.png