[daniel1212]

So now statewide protections against discrimination based on sexual orientation, marital status, and gender identity is a primary criteria for overall livability, while premature deaths is another yet which homosexual relations fosters.

[daniel1212]

Meanwhile, the cost of living seems to have been left out, since some of their worst states are among the cheapest to live in:

their list of
1. MISSISSIPPI
2. INDIANA
3. MICHIGAN
4. ARKANSAS
5. OKLAHOMA
6. IDAHO
7. TENNESSEE
8. KANSAS
9. TEXAS
10. KENTUCKY

http://www.cnbc.com/2017/07/11/americas-10-cheapest-states-to-live-in-2017.html

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Sooooo proud to be from the #1 state that proggies hate! Awesome! Don’t come here! We don’t wantcha!

[Pollster1]

New Mexico is the only state on the list that supported Hillary. The other nine decent states voted for a patriot.

[Engraved-on-His-hands]

...our annual America's Top States for Business...

Hmmm....So, the many businesses that are relocating from blue states to states like Tennessee...They just aren't as knowledgeable as this author? Things that make you go "Hmmmm".

[Dilbert San Diego]

Yep we see a real disconnect based on these criteria don’t we???

These criteria are not exactly the criteria I would use for determining livability.

Just some personal anecdotal evidence. We had some friends of my wife come to visit from Mississippi. They are “lesbian”. Not once did they state that living in Mississippi was living in a state sweltering in the heat of injustice towards people like them. It’s only anecdotal but in talking about their lives, the alleged shortcomings of Mississippi for “LGBT” peoples never came up.

[a fool in paradise]

How can we get Texas on this list of 10 worst places for Progressive-Socialist-Communists to live?

[dangus]

Alabama has the 3rd highest high-school graduation rate. And it has a cost-of-living-adjusted median income 20% higher than New York.

[relictele]

The study and the introduction’s own criteria are comtradictory and illogical.

How does ‘protection from discrimination’ equate to a good business climate?

If such protections produced economic activity then why are NY, CA, and other progressive utopias not economically vibrant and drawing new residents?

[ETL]

America’s worst states to live in 2017 [for liberals]

I guess that’d be any place that’s wholesome and normal.

[Viking2002]

'1. ALABAMA Sweet home? Not if you are over 50, a minority, gay or transgender and you are concerned about discrimination. Alabama is one of only five states with no statewide legal protections for those groups, making it one of America's least inclusive states.'

YESH! Really. We don't want to know what goes on in your bedroom. And we REALLY get pissed when you think it's an educational 'right' to force-feed it down an eight-year-old's throat. History and biology are irrefutable. We are normal. You are not. You defiled pervert.

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

What is it that makes the New Mexico populace so violent? The people I know from NM are mice people. Don’t seem prone to violence at all.

[morphing libertarian]

Insulting WV didn’t make the top or bottom 10.

[Quilla]

Roll Tide!

[Lazamataz]

WAIT A GOL-DARN MINUTE!

Georgia should be on that list, HIGH on that list.

[Ancesthntr]

I object! Where is Texas?

[Noumenon]

We obviously aren’t trying hard enough here in Idaho.

[boycott]

I hope liberals take note. We don’t want them here.

[SkyPilot]

The compiler of this list certainly doesn’t like smokers. But they seem to love “pole smokers.”

[Fiji Hill]

1. ALABAMA Sweet home? Not if you are over 50, a minority, gay or transgender and you are concerned about discrimination. Alabama is one of only five states with no statewide legal protections for those groups, making it one of America's least inclusive states. It is also one of America's least healthy states, with the nation's third-highest rate of premature deaths. On a positive note, the skies are blue and the governor's true.

Hooray for the Yellowhammer State! Alabama stomped all the others!

[strongbow]

I have lived in Alaska for last 20 years. As soon as I can wrap up some business here I am moving to Texas. I don’t really care what this rating says. Alaska is a dying socialist state. Texas is going to be my home. I have lots of family there and I have had three USAF assignments there. I was born in Louisiana but Texas is my home.