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.
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 ;-)