Worst state in the US

'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

ct has a vaguely disapproving vibe

― Lamp, Friday, April 27, 2012 11:22 PM (12 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

well that is p generally new englandy

partly i just think it's hilarious when these areas are carved up into tiny little states that people pretend are more culturally distinct from each other than they really are -- i mean i lived in delaware for years and i can go on and on about what the delaware vibe is but when you get down to it it could really easily be a shitty coastal part of pennsyvlvania or maryland

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

you could make an argument for the southern ne states being somewhat indistinguishable and the northern ones too but theres a p strong rural/urban divide between the two groups that makes them quite different

no way, all the southern states are a bit larger and have more obvious landmarks and cultural identities that distinguish them from each other

if u see boston u know ur in massachusetts

obviously, i didn't say ALL new england states

im actually not clear on what youre saying tbh

yeah neither am i, i misspelled exempt for fucks sake, i should quit while i'm ahead

yeah theres some v real demographic differences btw at least like western/southern ct and vt/nh its just denser and more suburbanized and richer, more tied to nyc, more ahistorical.

like i can kinda see jhos points in that lots of ct is sorta indistinguishable from any rich whites and assimilated jews colony anywhere, vt and nh are a lot more rooted in new england

what part of ct, lamp?

CT just got rid of the death penalty, so no way could it be on the list of worst anything.

that's not true it's the worst at having the death penalty

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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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