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

Google ^ | 04-29-04

[WKB]

Mississippi ranked 50th for the sixth year in a row. Other states in the bottom five were Tennessee, Louisiana and South Carolina.

For the 14th year running, Alabama has ranked near the bottom in a national survey of "livability" that measures each state's quality of life based on factors such as hazardous waste sites and the rates of crime, bankruptcy and unemployment.

Kansas-based Morgan Quitno Press ranked Alabama as the 47th most livable state.

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.

[wardaddy]

That is the only thing I find positive about you or your state

Good pizza to be fair...in NYC....but that's it. I'm drawing the line there dammit.

[friendly]

Maybe I am wrong, but I thought the title of this thread is "Notice to all Yankees (Mississippi ranked least livable state 6 years running) followed by the statement "Mississippi ranked 50th for the sixth year in a row."

My apologies to the fine citizens of Mississippi, which includes my aunt, uncle, and cousins, if they felt disparaged by this thread or my particualar post. I am merely pointing out the consequences of having a corrupt lawyer industry running your state. This is something Governor Barbour and I are in totally in agreement with.

Get angry at those who enslave you, not the messenger!

[EDINVA]

very clever, you rebs! but it's not working, Yanks are migrating down south faster than ya can (or want to) handle it.

[wardaddy]

You extrapolate the "findings" of a Kansas survey (probably still smarting over Quantrill and his Lawrence adventure) into a Hell On Earth analogy?

I spent 16 years out of the Southland........I am so glad to be back and would never disparage her. Funny that affects some folks different isn't it?

[EDINVA]

"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?"

You wanna SEE the Indian Reservation population rise between now and Lil Tommy Daschle's election ?

[onyx]

How much is the great pizza per slice?
$10.00?

[dixiechick2000]

"Get angry at those who enslave you, not the messenger!"



The messenger could have been a tad bit less tacky with
his message. ;o)

I've lived outside the South since 1992. Oregon is a
very beautiful state, but Portland is over run with
libruls. I'd take living in Mississippi any day over
this place. In Mississippi, quite a few of the 'Rats are
conservative, and the cost of living is waaaay lower.

BTW, there ARE OB/GYNs and trauma centers in Mississippi.
My little hometown of Meridian, with a population that barely pushes 40,000,
has 3 fairly large hospitals and more docs than you could ever imagine.
They love to go there to make big bucks with a very low cost of living.

I totally agree with you about Gov. Haley. He's a gem!

[l8pilot]

No snow, few yankees, good hunting and fishing, and low prices. They have Friendly folks, Black and White, that agreed together to keep their historic flag, in spite of the yankee Chambers of Commerce. Mississippi has lots of churchs, and Believers that attend them. Mississippi has some of the best race relations in the world.

It is the home of the Blues, and progenitor of jazz.

Mississippi has some of the most beautiful countyside, and the richest land, that I have ever seen.

I don't know who these yankees are, talking about Mississippi, but let's just keep the secret of how "livable" Mississippi is among us Southerners. They don't need to know about the Gulf coast shrimp, or the crawfish, or the excellent cookin'.

I hope they just keep believing that Mississippi is "Unlivable".

If I were not a South Carolinian, I would have to chose Mississippi as home.

Let 'em believe that trash. It'll keep the yankees away.

[l8pilot]

If Antarctica was a state, it would rank #1. 0 hazardous waste sites, 0 crime, 0 bankruptcy, and 0% unemployment

ROTFL, Thank you, I needed that. The thing that the yankee, liberal, hates the most is to be made fun of..

Excellent argument.

One of the wonderful things about FR, is that I come in contact with so few "self-righteous yankees in SC", that FR (even though it is basically a Republican love-fest) reminds me of their arrogance.

Thank you, thank you.

Larry

[NEPA]

Thanks for the link! I laughed so much I had tears streaming dowm my face. Too funny.

I might order a t-shirt for my friend who is moving into a trailer this month (we have them in PA too you know).

[#3Fan]

Yeah, where I used to work, we had 1200 employees. In the middle of this big place we did our own metal-cleaning, and there was not even a blade of grass within several hundred feet of where we did that work. The environmentalist wackos came in and declared that we had to shut that operation down. So we lost the jobs it took to clean the parts, the jobs it took to make those parts, maintenance hours it took to keep the machines running, forklift work it took to move the parts from machine to machine, QC work it took to inspect the machines every hour, and guess where we ended up having to buy the parts from...you guessed it...China. So when quality of life is first based on "environmentalism", I guess the only job the liberals want anyone to have is forest ranger. 300,000,000 million forest rangers. Can America do that? lol

[#3Fan]

...and there was not even a blade of grass within several hundred feet of where we did that work.

I should specify that it was because the factory extended for several hundred feet in every direction.

[macrahanish #1]

The property tax burden in New Hampshire is crushing. This must be why the statists find it most livable.

[macrahanish #1]

You say that like it's a bad thing.

[macrahanish #1]

Plus you get to have Jon Corzine as a Senator!!!

[macrahanish #1]

That looks like like Northern PA.
You could live on 10K a year here.

[WKB]

If I were not a South Carolinian, I would have to chose Mississippi as home



and We'd let you. Thanks

[SoDak]

Anyone reading this that dislikes gun-toting rednecks might be scared away. And that would be a good thing.

[dljordan]

I had a twenty acre farm outside of Nashville. I lived on a year round creek and my closest nieghbor was a half mile away. At night it was pitch black and quiet. I had my own rifle range and a garden. What's so unlivable about that?

[coloradan]

300,000,000 million forest rangers. Can America do that? lol

With enough environmental regulations, it would have to have that many just to enforce them all. The greenies are doing what they can to bring about this reality, although they are strangely silent on the propects for the economy when 100% of the population would be government service, and 0% employed in productive, wealth-creating jobs.