Posted on 10/22/2020 2:17:28 PM PDT by antidemoncrat
The top ten most-hated states, as determined by Best Life, ranked as follows:
1 New Jersey 2 Texas 3 California 4 Oklahoma 5 Florida 6 Michigan 7 Kentucky 8 Indiana 9 Alabama 10Kansas
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West in ‘78.
South Park’s “It’s a Jersey Thing” was great; very funny. NJ has great natural beauty (mountains, beaches, farms) but is simply too expensive for businesses to operate, so there aren’t good jobs to keep young Americans here.
The “fix” hastened the demise: Trafficking hordes of Thirdworlders to prevent ghost towns.
That is something visitors from other states out west describe; they don’t have buildings built 300+ years ago.
My town (in fact much of northeastern NJ) was part of the New Netherland settlement (a dozen miles west of NYC); the Dutch defeated the Swedes in western NJ to control the state, then lost to the British. While other states have earlier European settlement, most others haven’t been settled since the early 1600s. There is no shortage of history here.
Sorry to hear that...for Mountain Home. Odds are that most of those Chicago retirees are rock—ribbed über democrats living off obscenely generous pensions ripped off productive Illinois citizens’ taxes. Before you know it they’ll have gun bans, smoking bans, gas engine bans, higher taxes, high crime...you name it. Watch out!
Cousin went to high school in Midland Park, NJ over 50 yrs ago. Lots of Dutch.
Carteret here. I was out on 202 up the road from the Green Knorr Grill today, fixing a freezer.
Bwahahaha
Sure; you see it in street names and such.
It was in the last names of her classmates. I attended her graduation ceremony. Not sure if that’s the case now.
Yes, a lot of “Van XXX” names. There are still some there, but that county a couple of years back added Korean to all official business (the eastern portion along the Hudson River is very Asian now).
I lived in Hunterdon county and I miss it!!!!
No Massachsetts...Connecticut...Vermont? PUH-leeze.
Most hated? Naaaah...in my world, that's a tie between Massachusetts and New Hampshire.
Bergen County? I knew Fort Lee was.
Palisades Park is probably the epicenter; I believe their chamber of commerce was already conducting business sin Korean before that law. They aren’t just by the river, they’ve been looking for a location to build a church up there further inland but I don’t think the municipalities want to take a large chink of land off the tax rolls.
I suspect many work in NYC.
Went to Palasides Park amusement park as a kid. Great cun.
I’ve read about it; I hike at the Palisades. Interesting history there...
I’m so tired of NJ bashing: We have some truly beautiful areas here, not the mention the cultural “joiseyness”that is known all over the country. Yes it’s politically corrupt, probably has been for longer than PA or MI. . . but that it MUST change. I don’t feel my vote even counted, except for the local vote. It’s been a given that NJ’s 14 electoral votes are just literally handed over to Dems every single year. If there’s a way to get around truth in ballot counting, NJ will find it and do it. Jeff van Horn, the former Dem who switched parties last year and ran and WON here this election, is someone I want to reach out to. I’ll congratulate him, and then tell him I want NJ’s electoral process examined and investigated. Now is the time, and I’m not giving up on NJ, as the rest of the country has. Got to work to flip this state, and I don’t mean voters. I mean election process.
The problem in NJ is very simple: The most conservative and productive citizens have moved out due to high taxes and stifling regulations, and they’ve been (openly) replaced with foreigners - and not necessarily the “winners” from around the world the US used to attract. NJ imports anyone who will keep the public school system filled with “clients”, because the teachers’ unions dominate politics. We have a huge government worker caste (the cause of the high taxes), and many people vote Dem because they have relatives in those gubmint jobs.
Once employers started to flee the high costs, this was inevitable; now anyone coming here is just buying into a huge IOU to those gubmint workers, and less and less current revenues (the high taxes) can be used for maintenance of the ageing infrastructure - so you pay high taxes to drive on deteriorating roads, with foliage blocking stop signs and such.
I couldn’t imagine how you reverse this process; NY has the same diseases.
“The most conservative and productive citizens. . . “
I see a nationwide trend of a new voting block of Hispanics and African Americans who live in the inner cities voting for for the same things we want: faith, family values, safe communities, and jobs. This turnaround is the result of Trump’s great outreach to these citizens, however you’d never know it if the voting process is corrupt, as it is and most definitely was, here. The Dems have a stronghold not on the voters, but on their cheating voting process. They always win this way. We have to change our process. And that is up to our legislators. If anything good comes out of this past election, maybe this will be the thing that can change the Democratic grip around the necks of the people’s freedom to impact elections going forward, thereby changing the state RED. I’m still not giving up. Remember “anything can happen in NJ”
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