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Title: Why Your State Sucks: The Great American Map of Fail
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Yahoo/Time
URL Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/201101 ... mapoffailxidrssfullnationyahoo
Published: Jan 30, 2011
Author: NICK CARBONE
Post Date: 2011-01-30 02:25:35 by Hondo68
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Keywords: Washington Beastiality, Alaska Suicide, Colorado Cocaine
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Let's face it, we totally judge people based on where they're from. Here's your handy cheat sheet to each state's worst quality.
There's no shortage of derogatory comments about some states, such as New Jersey or Florida, but have you gotten tongue-tied when meeting someone from North Dakota? Well, this map is your key to a proper comeback - and according to a Daily Beast poll, the Peace Garden State has the ugliest people. It's a little known, yet "scientifically proven" zinger that's might make a few North Dakotan enemies.
Each of the nifty fifty ranks last in something, though some milestones certainly outweigh the others. Some accolades are tame and actually quite bland. Ohio is the nerdiest state, and Iowa has the oldest residents - words that would cause nary a reaction when thrown out in a verbal spar.
Other states come as no surprise: Wisconsin, home to MillerCoors, has the most binge drinkers, New Yorkers, who head to the Big Apple each day via congested roadways and too few trains, have the longest commutes, and Michigan, no thanks to the struggling auto industry, has the most folks out of work. Some states' awards completely flip America's perception of them. Mormon Utah is first in porn watching? Sunny California has the grossest air? And what's the deal with STDs down there in Louisiana?
But scanning to the Great Plains and out West, you'll notice a few completely shameful stats. We don't want to know about the possible animal-loving going on in Washington state, and it appears South Dakota and Nebraska may have issues respecting women.
Regardless of where you're from, your state has a milestone that you and your statewide kin probably shouldn't be proud of. But the real question is: do you contribute to your state's worst quality?
Rationale and statistics:
Most stats taken from www.americashealthrankings.org/ and www.census.gov/compendia/statab/rankings.html (unless otherwise noted)
1. Alabama: highest rate of stroke (3.8 percent) (tied with Oklahoma)
2. Alaska: highest suicide rate (23.6 suicides per 100,000 people in 2004)
3. Arizona: highest rate of alcoholism
4. Arkansas: worst average credit score (636)
www.talkbusiness.net/arti...EDIT-SCORE-AVERAGES/1007/
5. California: most air pollution (15.2 micrograms per cubic meter)
6. Colorado: highest rate of cocaine use per capita (3.9 percent total population)
7. Connecticut: highest rate of breast cancer
www.statehealthfacts.org/...=469&cat=10s4;=112&sort=a
8. Delaware: highest abortion rate (27 per 1,000 women aged 15 to 44)
9. Florida: highest rate of identity theft (122.3 reports per 100,000 people)
10. Georgia: sickly based on highest rate of influenza
11. Hawaii –highest cost of living (tied with California)
www.cnbc.com/id/38148092/...t_Cost_of_Living?slide=11
12. Idaho – lowest level of Congressional clout
www.newwest.net/topic/art...nal_clout_list/C559/L559/
13. Illinois: highest rate of robbery (284.7 incidences per 100,000 people)
14. Indiana: rated the most environmentally unfriendly by NMI solutions
www.environmentalleader.c...t-on-green-state-ranking/
15. Iowa: highest percentage of people age 85 and older (1.8 percent) (tied with three other states)
www.statemaster.com/graph...percent-who-85-years-over
16. Kansas: poorest health based on highest average number of limited activity days per month (3.5 days)
www.statemaster.com/graph...d-activity-days-per-month
17. Kentucky: most cancer deaths (227 per 100,000 people) (BONUS fact: Kentucky also has the highest rate of tobacco smokers – 25.6 percent)
18. Louisiana: highest rate of gonorrhea (264.4 reported cases per 100,000 people)
www.statemaster.com/graph...rat-health-gonorrhea-rate
19. Maine: dumbest state claim based on lowest average SAT score (1389)
www.commonwealthfoundatio.../2010-sat-scores-by-state
20. Maryland: highest rate of AIDS diagnosis (27.6 people per 100,000 people)
www.avert.org/usa-states-cities.htm
21. Massachusetts: worst drivers claim based on highest rate of auto accidents
www.theautochannel.com/news/2002/11/11/150352.html
22. Michigan: highest unemployment rate (13.6 percent)
23. Minnesota: highest number of reported tornadoes (123 in 2010)
woodbury.kstp.com/content...tion-tornado-reports-2010
24. Mississippi: highest rate of obesity (35.3 percent of total population)
BONUS facts: Mississippi ranks last in the most number of categories. These include highest rate of child poverty (31.9 percent), highest rate of infant mortality (10.3 percent) lowest median household income ($35,078), highest teen birth rate (71.9 per 1,000 women aged 15 to 19) and highest overall rate of STDs.
25. Missouri: highest rate of bankruptcy (700 out of every 100,000 people)
www.bcsalliance.com/bankruptcy_statestats.html
26. Montana: highest rate of drunk driving deaths (1.12 deaths per 100 million miles driven)
helenair.com/lifestyles/a...69-931e-dc5ca0f83583.html
27. Nebraska: highest rate of women murdered annually
28. Nevada: highest rate violent crime (702.2 offenses per 100,000 people). BONUS fact: Nevada also has the highest rate of foreclosure (one in 99 houses)
29. New Hampshire: highest rate of corporate taxes
newhampshire.watchdog.org...est-for-business-overall/
30. New Jersey: highest rate of citizen taxation (11.8 percent)
retirementliving.com/RLtaxes.html
31. New Mexico: antisocial claim based on lowest ranking in social heath policies
32. New York: longest average daily commute (30.6 minutes) www.statemaster.com/graph...bor-mean-travel-time-work
33. North Carolina: lowest average teacher salary
www.southernstudies.org/2...nks-last-for-teacher.html
34. North Dakota: ranked last in ugliest residents report as chosen by The Daily Beast
www.thedailybeast.com/gal...-least-attractive-states/
35. Ohio: nerdiest state claim based on highest number of library visits per capita (6.9)
www.statemaster.com/graph...library-visits-per-capita
36. Oklahoma: highest rate of female incarceration
37. Oregon: highest rate of long-term homeless people
38. Pennsylvania: highest rate of arson deaths (55.56 annually)
www.statemaster.com/graph...rs_dea-crime-arson-deaths
39. Rhode Island: highest rate of illicit drug use (12.5 percent of population) economix.blogs.nytimes.co...-island-needs-more-rehab/
40. South Carolina: highest percentage of mobile homes (18.8 percent)
www.statemaster.com/graph...ercent-units-mobile-homes
41. South Dakota: highest rate of forcible rape 76.5 per 100,000
42. Tennessee: chosen most corrupt state by The Daily Beast
www.thedailybeast.com/blo.../the-most-corrupt-states/
43. Texas: lowest high school graduation rate (78.3 percent)
www.statemaster.com/graph...diploma-higher-percentage
44. Utah: highest rate of of online porn subscriptions
www.deseretnews.com/artic...riptions-report-says.html
45. Vermont: infertility claim based on lowest birth rate of any state (10.6 births per 1,000) (tied with Maine)
www.statemaster.com/graph..._100-birth-rate-per-1-000
46. Virginia: highest number of alcohol-related motorcyle deaths
www.vabiker.net/2008/09/v...elated-motorcycle-deaths/
47. Washington: most cases of bestiality (4 reported in 2010)
www.pet-abuse.com/pages/c...g.php?year=2010&search=go
48. West Virginia: highest rate of heart attack (6.5 percent of population)
49. Wisconsin: highest rate of binge drinking (23.2 percent of population)
50. Wyoming: highest rate of deadly car crashes (24.6 deaths per 100,000)
www.autoinsurancequoteale...or-vehicle-fatality-rate/
Poster Comment:
Socialist States like Alaska, Colorado, and Washington seem to fair the worst. (1 image)
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#2. To: hondo68 (#0)
LMAOAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
libTURD HIVES like New Yuck and Kalipornia get "longest average daily commute" and "most air pollution"?
LOL!
Or Illinois, ("highest rate of robbery" and that's WITH some of the most Draconian guns LAWS in America btw), and Washington, ("most cases of bestiality"), or "Minnesoda", ( "highest number of reported tornadoes"), and Ohio, (" nerdiest state claim based on highest number of library visits per capita")!
Yet you pee your wittle panties trying to insult and run down my home state because well damn it, it's MY home state AND Governor Palin's as well so YEE HAW! eh you pitiful little wannabe cheechako?
Your little map is just standard libTURD SOP drivel and spin just like you are.
YOU should make sure that you never ever stain the air of the Greatland with your fetid breath.
"For the children", of course.
LMAO!!!!!!!
Living in mouth breather's empty noggins 24/7/365 totally rent free!
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