[WKB]

Missippy ping

[cripplecreek]

AnnArbor Mi. was pretty unlivable for a couple of hours today. John Kerry was in town.

[q_an_a]

new jersey and snow so cold you can't breath states, this must be a very interesting set of rules. The states of Wash, Colorado and Oregon are at least pretty compared to Iowa and New Jersey. This survey is like love it is in the eyes of the beholder.

[Letitring]

Hey, I'll take that and proud of it. :)

[My2Cents]

My son was stationed for a time at Biloxi in the Air Force. His photos of the area looked terrific. I'd be willing to live there rather than just about any place in California.

[MegaSilver]

The People's Republic of Mexifornia didn't top the list??

[Paleo Conservative]

The group found New Hampshire the "most livable state." Others in the top ten were Minnesota, Vermont, Iowa, New Jersey, Wyoming, Virginia, Nebraska, Connecticut and South Dakota.

Try going outside wearing a bathing suit and go swimming in any of those states in January.

[CatoRenasci]

Although one of my grandfathers was born in Mississippi during the Civil War, it has never struck me as one of the more livable states. When I consider Mississippi, I think of H.L. Mencken's viscious, but very funny, mid-1920's essay about the South, The Sahara of the Bozart.

[lormand]

I have lived most of my life in Lousyana, and have been to Mississippi on many occasions.

I cannot for the life of me figure out how Mississippi is worse than Lousyana.

[MplsSteve]

What defines "livability"?

A high tax structure and meddling, paternalistic local and state govt?

Freezing your butt off in the winter?

A state where increases in education spending are all done supposedly in the "best interest" of the children?

Yes, I guess Minnesota would fit into those standards of livability!

[Blood of Tyrants]

Good. Maybe this will keep the liberals away.

[Ol' Sox]

Here we go...Lemme just get my helmet on for a round of Yankee-bashing. How about while you Southron guys are at it, you can tell us how good your barbeque is and get it all over with at once. Thanks for your kind consideration. :)

[KarlInOhio]

Negatives
1 Percent Change in Number of Crimes: 2001 to 2002 (Table 27)
2 Crime Rate (Table 28)
3 State Prisoner Incarceration Rate (Table 62)
4 Personal Bankruptcy Rate (Table 102)
5 Pupil-Teacher Ratio in Public Elementary and Secondary Schools (Table 122)
6 Rate of Public Libraries and Branches in 2001 (Table 152)
7 Unemployment Rate (Table 171)
8 Percent of Nonfarm Employees in Government (Table 185)
9 Electricity Prices (Table 204)
10 Hazardous Waste Sites on the National Priority List per 10,000 Square Miles (Table 218)
11 State & Local Taxes as a Percent of Personal Income (Table 291)
12 Per Capita State and Local Government Debt Outstanding (Table 303)
13 Percent of Population Not Covered by Health Insurance (Table 359)
14 Births of Low Birthweight as a Percent of All Births (Table 375)
15 Teenage Birth Rate (Table 376)
16 Infant Mortality Rate (Table 382)
17 Age-Adjusted Death Rate by Suicide (Table 399)
18 Population per Square Mile (Table 437)
19 Poverty Rate (Table 499)
20 Percent of Female-Headed Families with Children Living in Poverty in 2002 (Table 503)
21 State and Local Government Spending for Welfare Programs as a Percent of All Spending (Table 506)
22 Percent of Households Receiving Food Stamps (Table 531)
23 Deficient Bridges as a Percent of Total Bridges (Table 547)
24 Highway Fatality Rate (Table 550)
25 Fatalities in Alcohol-Related Crashes as a Percent of All Highway Fatalities (Table 557)

Positives
26 Per Capita Gross State Product (Table 93)
27 Percent Change in Per Capita Gross State Product: 1997 to 2001(Adjusted to Constant Dollars) (Table 94)
28 Per Capita Personal Income (Table 97)
29 Change in Per Capita Personal Income: 2001 to 2002 (Table 98)
30 Median Household Income (Table 100)
31 Public High School Graduation Rate (Table 126)
32 Percent of Population Graduated from High School (Table 127)
33 Expenditures for Education as a Percent of All State and Local Government Expenditures (Table 137)
34 Percent of Population With a Bachelor’s Degree or More (Table 150)
35 Books in Public Libraries Per Capita (Table 153)
36 Per Capita State Art Agencies’ Legislative Appropriations (Table 154)
37 Average Weekly Earnings of Production Workers on Manufacturing Payrolls (Table 161)
38 Job Growth: 2002 to 2003 (Table 176)
39 Normal Daily Mean Temperature (Table 232)
40 Percent of Days That Are Sunny (Table 233)
41 Homeownership Rate (Table 424)
42 Domestic Migration of Population: 2002 to 2003 (Table 481)
43 Marriage Rate (Table 487)
44 Percent of Eligible Population Reported Voting (Table 498)

[Hodar]

What better place to add the Link dedicated to the Great Mobile Homes of Mississippi!!

Yes, it's very non-PC; but funny .... unless you live in a Mobile Home in Mississippi.

[wardaddy]

Aside from an obvious Southern bias, I'd wager they weigh heavily poverty and public schools ....both of which are problems with little or no resolutions down South due to entrenched and (for now) irreparable demographic issues.

Sure Dakota is great....but if the Indian Reservation demographics were 40% of the population, it wouldn't be so bucolic and idyllic would it?

Yankee snobs....please stay away...you guys have overrun Nashville.

[pgkdan]

The group found New Hampshire the "most livable state." Others in the top ten were Minnesota, Vermont, Iowa, New Jersey, Wyoming, Virginia, Nebraska, Connecticut and South Dakota.

Virginia's the only state that I would put in the Top 10 from that list.

[Unicorn]

NJ and Conn. this is nuts.

[davisfh]

"Notice to all Yankees ( Mississippi ranked least livable state 6 years running)"

Yankee go home and take some of our proletarians with you. (Proletarians are those with their hands out ready to receive taxpayer largess.)

[American_Centurion]

Seems to me the aim of the ranking is an attempt to draw people to socialistic/totalitarian/progressive/taxeverythingyouown type states.

Be proud MS! I don't want all those non-duck-calling yankees to come and ruin my best hunting spots by scaring off all the waterfowl. From my experience those same folks shoot like my 8 month old too.

[stainlessbanner]

I voted for Mississippi before I voted against it.