Worst state in the US

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!

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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.

i lived most of my life p close to conn so its not just a vague distaste, its hard to put into words cause theres just something abt it

1 theres no there there
2 wasps, i think the worst wasps, worse than mass wasps, w/their boats
3 southern connecticut 1% land
4 its biggest citys primary industry is... insurance

idk its poopy, i got depressed riding through there on the train the other day

i remember as a kid always being told not to speed when in connecticut (a place one only ever drove through, so useful advice). implication that CT was always ready to fuck with u. plus taco mayor.

http://image1.masterfile.com/em_w/02/63/87/619-02638718w.jpg

what I find interesting are the like, trashy not-rich wasp, it's like the ct version of jersey trash

you forgot joe liebermann, but yeah even living in the northeast pt of the state for the last 5 years i understand those vibes. both statewide and nationally (liebermann excepted) our politics aren't terrible tho

i would go so far as to claim that texas is one of the better states for eating, Austin, Houston, Port Arthur, Del Rio, the Hill Country the Valley, Corpus, Galveston, even Dallas and Lubbock all have distinct food to offer. and you can dig up great records still in texas

i dunno that all sounds like generic lol new england stuff to me -- is there some way that vermont or new hampshire is way better or exzempt from the same kind of ire?

what I find interesting are the like, trashy not-rich wasp, it's like the ct version of jersey trash

― iatee, Friday, April 27, 2012 11:11 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lots of jersey ppl go to school here so the distinction sometimes is nonexistent

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wow i really forgot how to spell exempt for a sec there

vermont and new hampshire are not huge suburbs for nyc financial industry

http://www.greenwichtime.com/news/article/1-in-7-cars-in-Greenwich-a-BMW-or-Mercedes-3340419.php

i dunno that all sounds like generic lol new england stuff to me -- is there some way that vermont or new hampshire is way better or exzempt from the same kind of ire?

― some dude, Friday, April 27, 2012 11:15 PM (59 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

vt n nh r p diff than ct, none of the things on my list apply to them particularly, ct is like only half new england culturally really and even then there are a lot of differences w/in that

ct has a vaguely disapproving vibe

fair enough -- i genuinely don't know that area well and am being mostly curious and only somewhat facetious and difficult here (xpost)

it's just a huge foresty rich person suburb w/ some boats

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