Posted on 12/18/2014 9:23:40 AM PST by Leaning Right
One thing that makes the U.S. great: no two states are the same. That diversity leads to distinct strengths and weaknesses, but how can you know what makes North Dakota different from South Dakota, besides a made-up line separating them?
Well, in the interest of showing that every state sucks in some way, we picked out one key area where each is most deficient. This is what every state is the worst at.
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No. The high incarceration rate is due to the IMPORTED and home-grown gang-bangers in Milwaukeestan and Madistan.
Moo! :)
Actually, I live deep in the heart ofTexas, near Austin. We live on Lake Travis, so we have some humidity, too, though not nearly like being on the ocean.
We are having a bad drought this year-—no rain for weeks at a time, and temps over 100 degrees for several weeks.
My heat is hotter than your heat—LOL!
LOL! Love the photo—that about says it all.
Been to the Lone Star State, years ago. Spent the night in Amarillo. It was hotter but brother humidity is the pits. After about two or three days of it you’re ready to kill somebody.
When a substantial minority come from a country where a fifth grade education is common, it isn’t TEXAS’ fault that there aren’t more high school graduates.
Minnesota: Most tornadoes
MN average 19 tornados/year. TX averages 137.
Don’t forget...29 evs for Dems without having to spend a dime in campaign money.
Indiana: #1 in meth!
Massachusetts-> worst at everything else
A few years back I drove I-29 from Kansas City to the Canadian border.I must admit that there's a whole lotta nothin in the Dakotas.However,I'm glad I did it...it helped remind me of the majesty of this great (or *once* great) nation.
I liked the black hills and badlands in sd. Don’t think I-29 runs through there.
Hmm...Idaho, worst drivers. Dunno, it’s pretty bad all right. Seems to be getting worse the more the roads get better. I put it down to excessive sobriety. Time was when a driver and a passenger could drink beer and wouldn’t be cited unless the driver wuz drunk. Then they made it so the passenger could drink but the driver couldn’t and so when he’d get pulled over he’d pass the beer to his passenger and so that didn’t work real well. Now neither one is supposed to drink. So you just sit there, mile after mile, parched and dehydrated, dodging the moose and the elk and the dang deer because of all those “game crossing” signs they put up. You can’t even sit on the gate of yer pickemup truck taking a whiz at 80 mph anymore - well, not if you’re the driver, that is. Place is going downhill fast.
I don’t think I’ve ever been to Amarillo—but I grew up in Beaumont. We all practically developed webbed feet due to the humidity down there!
No doubt about it. A lot of specious logic as well. For example: Louisiana is said to have the highest murder rate, but no mention of the fact that this is concentrated in urban areas like New Orleans.
Tennessee most dangerous? In which way? Violent crimes? If you strip out Memphis, where does Tennessee rank on the "danger scale"?
They determined that NC is 'worst' for education based on factors like education spending. Places like D.C. and even Newark, NJ spend about $15 - $20K per year, per student and they still can't read. There is no direct correlation between money spent on education and academic performance.
I could go on, but no need. Your observation is correct
Written by a generic, inarticulate Lefty who thinks he’s terribly funny but, naturally, isn’t.
That being said, I think the ‘nicest’ award should be split among most of the Southern states, as I’ve found Southern Hospitality to be alive and well throughout much of the South. Northerners who haven’t visited The South really ought to, as I’ve found the difference to be like night and day.
I was born and have (unfortunately) lived most of my life in Soviet Western Washington, a region that likes to think of itself as being ‘very’ nice. People from around here who think that way should visit The South....step into a Waffle House and be amazed as all of the workers stop what they’re doing, look at you, smile and greet you in a friendly way. Walk down the street and have strangers you pass look right at you, smile and say ‘good afternoon’ or ‘good morning’. Walk past a City worker in Savannah who is emptying sidewalk trash bins into the City truck, and be astonished as he stops working, looks right at you, smiles, and says “good morning sir/ma’am, how are you today?”. All of these things have happened to me, and much more.
I guess my point is to say that you can compare these statistics in the article all you like, but there are other things which play a HUGE role in making the quality of life what it is in whatever State or Region is in question....and for me at least, Southern Hospitality makes up in a BIG WAY for a whole lot of the negatives that this article’s author tries to lay at the feet of Southerners.
And BTW, as a male stoat, a beautiful Southern woman speaking with a Southern accent is utterly captivating. But, that’s just me ;-)
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