Worst state in the US

yeah, just in time not to execute those fucks who burned those teenage girls to death in a home-invasion robbery? Way to fucking go CT.

am I the only ILXer who still lives in Florida?

btw the majority of Cubans are Republicans because of a mistaken belief that the GOP strings them along less than Dems (while the older ones still complain about The Kennedy Betrayal). But Cubans could give a shit about abortion (most are pro-choice) and gay rights.

yeah, just in time not to execute those fucks who burned those teenage girls to death in a home-invasion robbery? Way to fucking go CT.

― frogsclovetofu (beachville), Saturday, April 28, 2012 4:30 AM (5 hours ago)

your reactionary rage may live on - the law applies only prospectively, unfortunately. those two aren't gonna be executed either way tho

I had a nightmare involving me living in Orlando. Sean "The Heartbreak Kid" was in it.

Florida has the Magic Kingdom and lots of beaches and cute manatees, but 95% of the people who live there are basically human shit

not sure I'd count Walt Disney World as part of Florida tbh; it's a sovereign country.

Alfred, Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo lives in Florida.

am I the only ILXer who still lives in Florida?

― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, April 28, 2012 7:42 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

how many have been killed by "stand your ground" laws so far?

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think bojax lives near orlando

no jaymc

vt is legit beautiful ime

― Lamp

yeah I drove through either NH or VT on my way to montreal once and it was a really beautiful state

CT, otoh, well I'm only familiar with southern CT but it's pretty blah

*looks out window* its p nice

texas is pretty outstanding. fla is terrible. not as bad as AZ, which admittedly has tucson and good scenery but not much else.

I still think it's hilaire that NJ has the highest population density out of all the states, despite having no major cities, america is just so big man

arizona is amazing for the natural beauty alone

if you were going ct>mtl that wouldve been vt dayo

arizona has steve nash. he'll probably be in florida next year tho

I was going PA -> montreal xp

Alaska 1.264 inhabitants per square mile

i would like to visit alaska

remember crossing some cool bridges, very cool, would cross again

a rerun of the 30 rock episode "i heart connecticut" is coming on comedy central in a few minutes, as it happens

I was going PA -> montreal xp

― dayo, Saturday, April 28, 2012 10:46 AM (17 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

new york state? p short detour to vt tho

new york state? p short detour to vt tho

― lag∞n, Saturday, April 28, 2012 10:47 AM (10 seconds ago) Bookmark

it's all coming back to me... I think we had to pick somebody up in springfield MA so we went a little more easterward - if that's true, then we probably drove through VT

yep

The old run up 91 to 89 to Montreal. Good times.

not as bad as AZ, which admittedly has tucson and good scenery but not much else.

― omar little, Saturday, April 28, 2012 7:44 AM (33 minutes ago)

Tucson is great and I dig living here but it's not some kind of oasis from the issues the rest of Arizona is facing. Por ejemplo, Tucson Unified School District has been part of a desegregation case since 1978:

In 1978, plaintiffs Mendoza and Fisher were told that TUSD would be required to remedy the ill effects of past segregation within the district. They could not have known that their fight for equality was only just beginning. What was initially presented as a five-year desegregation plan stretched into 30 years. In 2009 TUSD was granted unified status and released from court supervision despite the court finding it had “failed to act in good faith in its ongoing operation of the District under the Settlement Agreement.”

TUSD began operating under its Post-Unitary Status Plan, which promised that the district’s MAS program would be expanded. TUSD did support the existing MAS program, but it failed to follow through on its promise of expansion. Because TUSD also abandoned other important policies outlined in the plan, the court revoked the district’s unified status in 2011, saying it had failed to act in good-faith compliance with the order to integrate schools-yet again.

sorry, it was originally filed by the NAACP in 1974.
1974!

A few Florida highlights: Gulf coast beaches and towns, the Everglades in winter, the giant Bryan Ferry poster in my living room.

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.

i drove through some v beautiful places in arkansas once, missouri tho seems like it might be p bad

yeah I thought arkansas was pretty

oklahoma is the real wasteland

I also heard that Florida was crazy but it was the panhandle were all the bad craziness went on

xp

OK has Tulsa & OK City and a buncha great Route 66 stuff still

i spent like a week in okla once including drive clear across it, it has some character imho, i still vote missouri, the show me state is def our most repugnant state motto

That corner of OK, Arkansas and Missouri is quite pretty. Driving through the Ozarks down to Fayetteville and across to Tulsa was a joy.

You can always find something good to say about any shitty state.

its true connecticut has many beautiful things too

I think I posted this on another thread, but a point in Oklahoma City's favor is the street named after Charlie Christian:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/df/CharlieChristianAve.JPG/220px-CharlieChristianAve.JPG

Alfred, what are the Everglades like during the winter? What are the best gulf coast towns iyo?

I adore Sanibel and Captiva islands. Tarpon Springs too.

The Everglades are much cooler in January. I would not recommend a nature walk or air boat in July.

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.

And Abbott, if you think Tucson's bad for having a deseg crisis more than 35 years old, our school district is still in the courts over 1957. Which is really weird because as the Little Rock School District tries to keep itself as close to 50/50 b/w, it offers this "majority-to-minority" rule where white kids from other districts can go to LR schools since LR schools are more like 60/40 black. Works out for my family.

I've only been to the NE once, a round-trip from NYC to Bennington, VT, to Concord, NH, to Portland, ME back to Boston, Providence and CT. CT just looked like one big suburb to me and it didn't help that my only stop was at a Friendly's for dinner.

Can i just say here how much I hate that red state/blue state designation? It always confuses me 'cause here in Canada "red" = Liberal & "blue" = Conservative.

I kinda think Conservatives got the better color. You want to be RED or do you want to be ~blue~ ;_;.

* Post cold war, obv

Florida has a few things going for it, as does Texas. OK for the win (lose).

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

Xpost most of populated America looks like a strip mall. The prettiest places are the ones with no people.

The state with the prettiest name,
the state that floats in brackish water,
held together by mangrave roots
that bear while living oysters in clusters,
and when dead strew white swamps with skeletons,
dotted as if bombarded, with green hummocks
like ancient cannon-balls sprouting grass.
The state full of long S-shaped birds, blue and white,
and unseen hysterical birds who rush up the scale
every time in a tantrum.
Tanagers embarrassed by their flashiness,
and pelicans whose delight it is to clown;
who coast for fun on the strong tidal currents
in and out among the mangrove islands
and stand on the sand-bars drying their damp gold wings
on sun-lit evenings.
Enormous turtles, helpless and mild,
die and leave their barnacled shells on the beaches,
and their large white skulls with round eye-sockets
twice the size of a man's.
The palm trees clatter in the stiff breeze
like the bills of the pelicans. The tropical rain comes down
to freshen the tide-looped strings of fading shells:
Job's Tear, the Chinese Alphabet, the scarce Junonia,
parti-colored pectins and Ladies' Ears,
arranged as on a gray rag of rotted calico,
the buried Indian Princess's skirt;
with these the monotonous, endless, sagging coast-line
is delicately ornamented.

Thirty or more buzzards are drifting down, down, down,
over something they have spotted in the swamp,
in circles like stirred-up flakes of sediment
sinking through water.
Smoke from woods-fires filters fine blue solvents.
On stumps and dead trees the charring is like black velvet.
The mosquitoes
go hunting to the tune of their ferocious obbligatos.
After dark, the fireflies map the heavens in the marsh
until the moon rises.
Cold white, not bright, the moonlight is coarse-meshed,
and the careless, corrupt state is all black specks
too far apart, and ugly whites; the poorest
post-card of itself.
After dark, the pools seem to have slipped away.
The alligator, who has five distinct calls:
friendliness, love, mating, war, and a warning--
whimpers and speaks in the throat
of the Indian Princess.