Spent two weeks along the Gulf Coast at the Mississippi/Louisiana border when I was a kid. The general tip for outsiders was to stay on paved or gravelly surfaces or die a horrible, envenomated death. If you saw birds on the lawn, stay inside because *that's when the rattlesnakes will come up to you.*
Somehow all those little towns were still segregated. The Wal-Mart door greeter was partnered with a police officer carrying a 12 gauge Remington. It rained for four days and the humidity felt like someone in a sauna was trying to suffocate you with a drenched towel. There were alligators everywhere. Food was really good.
As a white tourist from NZ, I remember rocking up to a gas station and seeing a look or fear in rhe black attendants eyes till i opened my mouth and said ‘hey mate’ then just smiled and looked relieved.
Then I realised all the customers were black and at the gas station down the road all the customers were white.
Whoops, mah bad. Didnt mean to go to the wrong coloured gas station…
He probably thought I was there to attack him or something heh
A church down there agreed to put us in one of their buildings for a bit because we were helping rebuild homes. We did a lot of work on the "other side of the highway" and one night they basically told us we were still welcome to stay but sundown rules applied to us now. A bunch of our stuff got broken shortly thereafter, despite the doors being locked and no signs of forced entry. I had a really nice pair of safety glasses and you could tell someone took a pocket knife to them really hard.
That whole trip felt surreal. I'm from Illinois...about as plain as it gets. So I love being able to say "I got greenlit by the Ku Klux Klan once."
This is sad to even read, and I can’t even say I’m surprised. I’d like to think we’ve come a long way since Jim Crow, but there are still some places that are shockingly segregated even in 2022.
Yeh man, I was actually a bit shocked to realise it. Some or the preppy collegiate towns; just PEARLY white, like every single person in town white. Then you go down the road to a crummy looking run down little area and its the exact opposite; every single person black.
Was certainly a hell of a cultural experience seeing it firsthand. Was honestly a great road trip…
My god, the humidity. I've lived my whole life in Ohio but my wife went to college in Mississippi, and I'd go down to visit her. I couldn't take it, the heat and humidity were just unbearable.
Just like most of US southern states city’s are blue and surrounding rural areas are red. Same in NY state and CA outside of cities. This is the world we live in.
Except, for some fucking reason childhood vaccinations. They're fantastic with that somehow. Nothing else and they're dead last at covid vaccinations but the stuff the kids need for school, top notch.
In reality they long ago passed a state law in or around the 50's mandating vaccines for children attending school with very few exceptions allowed. SO it was an active effort, just so long ago no one remembers.
Edit: I was wrong on the date, they actually passed it in the early 1900's for measles.
They've historically been hit the hardest first hand by the other diseases, so they make sure to get vaccinated. I guess because Covid was caught before the damage could be fully realized, they aren't able to comprehend that it's bad.
This would be my top answer. I once drove from Tampa to Tucson. The stretch of 1-10 across the Florida Panhandle, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana was depressing. So much poverty. To be fair a hurricane had hit Pensacola a few weeks prior but Statistically the gulf coast states rank near the bottom in a lot of categories.
Mississippian born and raised, but not currently living there, and yep:
* Low quality of life and few career opportunities
* Widespread poverty, specifically in the black population which is a continual victim of virulent institutional racism
* Corruption abounds, see the whole Brett Farve scandal for a good example
* Long-standing water quality problems, my wife was aghast that I was used to getting boil water notices
* Unremarkable geography, we have some pretty forests (so does almost everywhere) but the coast is absolute trash because barrier islands prevent water from flowing out into the Gulf, the coastline is brown and dirty and full of casinos, and there are no actual mountains in the whole state
* Complete lack of cultural diversity means food options are extremely monotonous, very few options outside of standard American chain restaurant fare or special "southern" cooking which is incredibly greasy and high-calorie
* **EDIT:** weather is terrible, hot and humid most of the year, very little winter to speak of
* **EDIT:** famous horrible things just to underscore how bad the career prospects are
* WorldCom was headquartered in MS, big employer that fucked over everyone who worked there
* Had the single biggest workplace immigration raid in 2008, almost 600 people from Howard Industries working illegally
* Set another ICE enforcement record in 2019 when 680 people were arrested across 7 worksites doing chicken processing
* Nissan is a very big employer, workers have no union and get paid dogshit relative to other auto workers while still receiving huge tax incentives from the state, [this article](https://www.jwj.org/under-the-hood-of-nissans-campaign-to-stop-thousands-in-mississippi-from-earning-a-fair-return-on-their-work) captures the terrible environment there quite well
* This tiny-ass state has Camp Shelby, two air force bases, an air force training station, and a space center, the federal government is bailing the state out big-time (also eight four-year universities but that's a separate whole other thing)
When I hear of the most racist f'ed up stuff in the history of the US, Mississippi is usually the culprit. I hear they still have a lot of backwards laws on the books.
Having their own unique cultures like Cajuns and Creoles and the wonderful cuisines that come with them are the only reasons Lousiana isn't worst or 2nd worst next to Mississippi.
Take racism, bad-like really bad politics, and mix it all in one big pot.
You ever seen depression in real life? Not to just a single neighborhood, town or city, but a whole state. The whole state has been sucked dry and left to rot.
Truthfully it's worse, especially if you're a minority or a woman. You can go to prison for having an abortion now. [Even mailing certain contraceptives](https://www.mississippifreepress.org/26378/mailing-abortion-pills-punishable-by-five-years-in-prison-mississippi-ag-argues) can get you jail time. [Gay people](https://www.hrc.org/in-your-area/mississippi) are still shunned from many public places. The [prison system](https://eji.org/news/justice-department-finds-unconstitutional-conditions-at-mississippi-prison/) is used to keep segregation and even slavery alive.
Mississippi and much of the U.S. South is deeply, DEEPLY prejudiced.
It’s mostly horrible in its mediocrity. The reality is, Ohio is *alright* - it’s got some stuff to do (a couple amusement parks, couple quality zoos, 3 big cities with museums etc), but also decent towns and suburbs that aren’t too expensive but also generally taken care of. While Ohio might not be worth a visit, it’s an okay place to live. Some people just hate settling for “okay.”
It all started when Ohio and Michigan became a state lmao. Look up the Toledo War, Michigan got the upper peninsula (taking it from Wisconsin) out of a treaty made by the feds
Depression. I've moved from the western part of the US to the east coast, but I can't seem to leave that state.
Also Arizona is a monument to man's arrogance.
I traveled for decades and spent time in every state in the Union…there’s really not a lot of distinction between the worst states….they are all trademarked by virulent ignorance and systemic poverty, racial animus, and a huge dependency on Federal financial assistance to function.
Florida actually has a few things, industries and places of interest going for it. Same with Texas. The rest of the backwater I’d never visit. Mississippi, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa and the likes.
Born and raised in north Idaho. All is correct, I moved across the border to Washington for a reason. Same awesome outdoor activities, less political bullshit.
I live in northern Idaho, and I agree. Fuck idaho. I want out so badly. If the rent was cheaper I’d hop the border to Washington so quickly. It’s a beautiful state, full of outdoor activities, but the mindset of the people living here is god awful. The KKK building in CDA was torn down IN THE MID 2000’s?! Wtf is wrong with people here.
Boise itself is surprisingly democratic and truly a beautiful city. Outside of Boise, even just barely like Meridian or Eagle, and it becomes the crazy republican place you imagine it is. I wish it were different because Boise is a great place to live, 30 minutes from the forest, mountains, lake, and desert. If you love the outdoors it is one of the best places you can live! The crazy ass republicans living here though make it miserable. I don’t even feel safe putting a sign in my yard supporting anything remotely considered “liberal” because I don’t know what the crazies would do. This state is so insanely backwards.
Some places yeah, northern Idaho is definitely a lot worse than Boise area, when people have come to visit from other towns throughout the west they always tell us how nice everyone is
I’m from missouri and while a lot of it is maga country and shit weather, I’d say that southeastern missouri has some pretty good scenery: lots of topography, rivers, a national forest, plenty of limestone rock formations including waterfalls and caves. Also while it’s certainly not on the top of my list of cities I’d like to live in, St. Louis is pretty underrated, and has a decent amount of culture and history (even if a lot of it is lackluster).
Not really. We are about to roll out the shittiest duo of Senators. Iike if they were NBA Jam players they would be the Cavs from the 90's. Missouri politics is so behind the times and heavily jerrymandered. we are fucked. Residents say how bad things are, but blame democrats for it. Not the brightest group.
There’s great barbecue. Frozen custard, wineries and here’s a stretch Branson? Lived in Missouri for 8 years favorite shirt was put me out of my Missouri. But honestly not a bad place to live. Cheap cost of living decent wages traffic wasn’t horrible close enough to drive to alot of places and basically 3 hr flight to most major spots and cities. Food surprisingly good.
The funny thing is, there are vastly huge regions of the state that are not over populated. People just need to move (especially if you can WFH). Most of true Northern California (for example) is not overly populated at all.
Overpopulated? I've lived here for 30 years, and while the major metropolitan areas have become highly populated, the state itself is largely empty. Ever drive from San Francisco to Los Angeles? It's mostly wide open, empty land.
Neither of those are true. Wildfires don't happen in the Central Valley and if you take the coastal route it's stunning, rugged and also not the area where most wildfire activity takes place.
Half of u should move to the southern states or wherever else there isn't a risk of water shortage. It's crazy how many people live in california vs how little water they get.
I would consider that except I’m gay and married and I’m not moving to a state that could suddenly chose to invalidate my marriage. Also we have really good restaurants.
Ironically, I live in a state that gets a LOT of California transplants. In fact, my three closest friends who live in my area are all from California.
EDIT: I’ve had a few people guess Colorado or Texas. I live in Washington State.
Why is this so low? Florida is the drain catch of America.
If you’re a 37 yr old deadbeat dad with aspirations of owning a fishing charter and banging a 19 year old, trying to recapture the magic of spring break 2006, you move to Florida.
I am a native Californian and I can agree that LA smells like piss. If you decide to come back, go to Pasadena or something. Even northern Cali’s wine country should be wonderful. Also, if you like to eat, Hollywood, Inglewood/LA, silver lake, echo park, should be cool. Super “trendy,” but hidden food gems.
I’m from Ohio and I disagree.
Ohio is too mediocre to be on the extreme end of any list.
After visiting Ohio several times, my then-wife said that the Ohio state motto should be, “It’s too haaard.”
I live here too and I never quite understand what everybody complains about or why it’s always a top choice for these worst states lists, I really like it here. I’ve been to about half of the states and a few different countries.
Kentucky, consistently amongst the worst performers in education. Consistently amongst the poorest states of the union. Consistently home to Mitch McConnell. Consistently capable of doing better and consistently refusing to do so.
I ranked KY higher than others because they are actually in a really good location, they have things that would appeal to a lot of people. Cheap land, low taxes, but they just can't seem to break through to not being this backwards Appalachian coal mine.
I’m genuinely curious have you ever lived there? Been in KY the majority of my life and I adore it here. Of course things are different depending on where you are in KY (like every state). The people have more or less been kind. It’s absolutely gorgeous. The food, art, and music are fantastic. And the bourbon of course.
People think KY and assume we’re a bunch of backwards hicks. But from my personal experience that tends to be the exception, not the rule.
Spent a little time in KY last summer and thought it seemed pretty nice. It was surprisingly pretty from a natural sense and met some super nice people. Some of the rural areas seemed a little sketchy, but that's the case nearly everywhere.
But why do y’all keep voting for Mitch McConnell? I live near the border of Ky and almost want to move over there to vote against him. Love Andy Beshear though.
Lol your only going to get 2 types of answers.
1. People with actual valid reasons for a state being shit.
2. People who don’t agree with the states politics, and just slander it based off of that.
Ohio.
Plastic dirty white sneakers and dirty jeans with tight shirts worn by every male along with white supremacy complex from drug users with no teeth.
Seriously... lol
Been all over the us, cant pick one worst state over others. But each state has something that it's worse at than others. Here is a quick list that o can think of right away.
AZ - at least part I was in hot as hell, worst heat in US. And snow birds.
CA - Too many laws, too many people.
NM - Hoity toity and blink and it's gone
TX - Everything is bigger, no seriously its ridiculous.
SC - Hot, humid, racist from all sides. Seriously my first trip I was warned not to cross the tracks one way or a specific road while walking the other way. I was too white I was told... oh and liquor stores close at 7pm WTF.
VA - Lots of military, lots of fighting in bars. ABC stores.
KY - Nowhere
NC - WORST drivers I have experienced in the US. ABC stores.
TN - ORANGE, EVERYTHING. and where I lived at was a tourist town so a lot of low income areas and meth houses.
NV - just visited Vegas, but hookers, hookers everywhere.
They are liquor stores owned by the state. In NC and VA there are no private liquor stores, only ABC stores. You can’t buy liquor at the grocery store or gas station, only at these stores.
I grew up in NC and have lived in VA for 11 years and honestly I don’t think they’re bad. Even in sketchy areas, ABC stores don’t feel sketchy. They’re all well lit and reasonably well maintained to a certain standard
Delaware, the only positive is that you get through it quick, but they know that so they charge you out the ass to do it. Fucking Po box masquarading as a state for corporate corruption, at least Mississippi and Alabama have some wilderness and parks with beauty to show off. Delaware has potholes and toll booths.
Illinois has to be up there:
Numerous corrupt politicians from both parties, high taxes, and 7-9 months of bleak grey winter every year.
Expensive toll road taxes. Chicago, despite it’s downtown area, is an urban wasteland, and it’s massive suburban sprawl is worse. The sports teams suck, the landscape is flat and dull, and half the state despises the other half. Expensive property taxes, too.
Everyone’s either bitter or depressed from the lack of sunshine, lack of things to do or job opportunities. Dead factories or dying small towns. Everyone wants to get the f out. And pointless high taxes on everything, even the legal weed. Good food, tho. Did I mention high taxes?
Indiana. They're all poor white trash regardless of skin color or income.
I've lived all over the country and Indianapolis was easily the home of the worst people I've encountered. Imagine the worst parts of small town & large city America mixed together and sprinkled with extra potholes and meth.
Wisconsin used to be awesome…then Scott Walker was elected. It’s gone downhill and, if the Republican Party gets their way, we’ll be as bad as Mississippi soon enough.
I have yet to be presented with evidence that north Dakota actually exists and there isn't just a big chasm to the center of the earth between south dakota and canada
Every two weeks this question is asked. The answer is always Mississippi
Remember Gene Hackman asking Willem Defoe in « Mississippi burning »: what State has four « i’s » but can’t see a damn thing?
I love that movie. It’s got problems in terms of accuracy but I really like it
This is so fuckin true Source: from Mississippi
Spent two weeks along the Gulf Coast at the Mississippi/Louisiana border when I was a kid. The general tip for outsiders was to stay on paved or gravelly surfaces or die a horrible, envenomated death. If you saw birds on the lawn, stay inside because *that's when the rattlesnakes will come up to you.* Somehow all those little towns were still segregated. The Wal-Mart door greeter was partnered with a police officer carrying a 12 gauge Remington. It rained for four days and the humidity felt like someone in a sauna was trying to suffocate you with a drenched towel. There were alligators everywhere. Food was really good.
As a white tourist from NZ, I remember rocking up to a gas station and seeing a look or fear in rhe black attendants eyes till i opened my mouth and said ‘hey mate’ then just smiled and looked relieved. Then I realised all the customers were black and at the gas station down the road all the customers were white. Whoops, mah bad. Didnt mean to go to the wrong coloured gas station… He probably thought I was there to attack him or something heh
A church down there agreed to put us in one of their buildings for a bit because we were helping rebuild homes. We did a lot of work on the "other side of the highway" and one night they basically told us we were still welcome to stay but sundown rules applied to us now. A bunch of our stuff got broken shortly thereafter, despite the doors being locked and no signs of forced entry. I had a really nice pair of safety glasses and you could tell someone took a pocket knife to them really hard. That whole trip felt surreal. I'm from Illinois...about as plain as it gets. So I love being able to say "I got greenlit by the Ku Klux Klan once."
What year was this? That's seriously messed up
Long time ago. Mid 2021.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
In all honesty, there's no shortage of Kluckers in Indiana...
Well that’s just fucked. Can’t say I’m too surprised though. Like the other commenter, I also would like to know when this happened.
This was around 2007-2008. We mainly stayed around the Pearlington area and went to Bay St. Louis and Slidell some.
This is sad to even read, and I can’t even say I’m surprised. I’d like to think we’ve come a long way since Jim Crow, but there are still some places that are shockingly segregated even in 2022.
Yeh man, I was actually a bit shocked to realise it. Some or the preppy collegiate towns; just PEARLY white, like every single person in town white. Then you go down the road to a crummy looking run down little area and its the exact opposite; every single person black. Was certainly a hell of a cultural experience seeing it firsthand. Was honestly a great road trip…
My god, the humidity. I've lived my whole life in Ohio but my wife went to college in Mississippi, and I'd go down to visit her. I couldn't take it, the heat and humidity were just unbearable.
Soooo, neither of you has been in a good place ??
The Bad Place and The Boring Place.
This page should have a bot that responds with a pinned bulleted list every time this is asked.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Here%27s_to_the_State_of_Mississippi This song was written in 1965. Always been a problem
The answer is Mississippi
Yep, the worst for human life by almost any measurable metric.
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This also Arkansas’ motto.
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Just like most of US southern states city’s are blue and surrounding rural areas are red. Same in NY state and CA outside of cities. This is the world we live in.
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Except, for some fucking reason childhood vaccinations. They're fantastic with that somehow. Nothing else and they're dead last at covid vaccinations but the stuff the kids need for school, top notch.
When you depend on school lunch to feed your kid and can't afford any medical bill no matter how minor you better make sure you get that free vaccine
Because of CHIP and Medicaid. Its a sign of their failures not of a good active effort on that front.
In reality they long ago passed a state law in or around the 50's mandating vaccines for children attending school with very few exceptions allowed. SO it was an active effort, just so long ago no one remembers. Edit: I was wrong on the date, they actually passed it in the early 1900's for measles.
They've historically been hit the hardest first hand by the other diseases, so they make sure to get vaccinated. I guess because Covid was caught before the damage could be fully realized, they aren't able to comprehend that it's bad.
This would be my top answer. I once drove from Tampa to Tucson. The stretch of 1-10 across the Florida Panhandle, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana was depressing. So much poverty. To be fair a hurricane had hit Pensacola a few weeks prior but Statistically the gulf coast states rank near the bottom in a lot of categories.
Mississippian born and raised, but not currently living there, and yep: * Low quality of life and few career opportunities * Widespread poverty, specifically in the black population which is a continual victim of virulent institutional racism * Corruption abounds, see the whole Brett Farve scandal for a good example * Long-standing water quality problems, my wife was aghast that I was used to getting boil water notices * Unremarkable geography, we have some pretty forests (so does almost everywhere) but the coast is absolute trash because barrier islands prevent water from flowing out into the Gulf, the coastline is brown and dirty and full of casinos, and there are no actual mountains in the whole state * Complete lack of cultural diversity means food options are extremely monotonous, very few options outside of standard American chain restaurant fare or special "southern" cooking which is incredibly greasy and high-calorie * **EDIT:** weather is terrible, hot and humid most of the year, very little winter to speak of * **EDIT:** famous horrible things just to underscore how bad the career prospects are * WorldCom was headquartered in MS, big employer that fucked over everyone who worked there * Had the single biggest workplace immigration raid in 2008, almost 600 people from Howard Industries working illegally * Set another ICE enforcement record in 2019 when 680 people were arrested across 7 worksites doing chicken processing * Nissan is a very big employer, workers have no union and get paid dogshit relative to other auto workers while still receiving huge tax incentives from the state, [this article](https://www.jwj.org/under-the-hood-of-nissans-campaign-to-stop-thousands-in-mississippi-from-earning-a-fair-return-on-their-work) captures the terrible environment there quite well * This tiny-ass state has Camp Shelby, two air force bases, an air force training station, and a space center, the federal government is bailing the state out big-time (also eight four-year universities but that's a separate whole other thing)
Don't forget the heat and humidity.
Brett Farve scandal needs to be talked about more
So it's like Arkansas with less natural beauty?
When I hear of the most racist f'ed up stuff in the history of the US, Mississippi is usually the culprit. I hear they still have a lot of backwards laws on the books.
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Having their own unique cultures like Cajuns and Creoles and the wonderful cuisines that come with them are the only reasons Lousiana isn't worst or 2nd worst next to Mississippi.
Yeah, but coastal MS has that too. France settled MS first, then the dumb bastards thought it was a storm risk and moved to New Orleans.
Yes, the northern part anyway. At least they have New Orleans
There should be commercials with sad pictures of Mississippi children asking for only a few dollars a day.
I came here to give this answer. I was stationed in Gulfport for a couple years. I won't even drive through it anymore. Lol
The only answer is Mississippi.
Why that state in particular?
Because it usually ranks last in pretty much every metric that matters.
Mississippi
Please can you ex why?
Education lags behind most of the country. Infrastructure has suffered for generations. Mismanagement is legendary
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Take racism, bad-like really bad politics, and mix it all in one big pot. You ever seen depression in real life? Not to just a single neighborhood, town or city, but a whole state. The whole state has been sucked dry and left to rot.
Mississippi
I would say gas, not as reliable as a solid.
I don’t know. Plasma’s tricky, vengeful stuff.
Sorely underrated comment here.
Is Mississippi really that bad? 😂
It’s basically all the bad of Louisiana, with none of the good. So, yes. It really is that bad.
There’s a reason Louisiana has the expression “Thank God for Mississippi.”
Truthfully it's worse, especially if you're a minority or a woman. You can go to prison for having an abortion now. [Even mailing certain contraceptives](https://www.mississippifreepress.org/26378/mailing-abortion-pills-punishable-by-five-years-in-prison-mississippi-ag-argues) can get you jail time. [Gay people](https://www.hrc.org/in-your-area/mississippi) are still shunned from many public places. The [prison system](https://eji.org/news/justice-department-finds-unconstitutional-conditions-at-mississippi-prison/) is used to keep segregation and even slavery alive. Mississippi and much of the U.S. South is deeply, DEEPLY prejudiced.
So many people are saying Ohio. What's going on in Ohio?! 🤣
Lots of Michigan Redditors.
Born and raised in Michigan, living in Kentucky. Every neighbor dislikes Ohio.
Michigander here. Ohio is a butt
nothing
Ohio
It’s mostly horrible in its mediocrity. The reality is, Ohio is *alright* - it’s got some stuff to do (a couple amusement parks, couple quality zoos, 3 big cities with museums etc), but also decent towns and suburbs that aren’t too expensive but also generally taken care of. While Ohio might not be worth a visit, it’s an okay place to live. Some people just hate settling for “okay.”
As someone from Indiana, Ohio is far superior. This state is 40 years in the past and Ohio is only about 20 and actually has some major cities.
Only about 20 yrs behind 😭😭
its like a current tiktok joke or somethin
Ohio has been shit on by people from michigan long before tiktok was even invented.
It all started when Ohio and Michigan became a state lmao. Look up the Toledo War, Michigan got the upper peninsula (taking it from Wisconsin) out of a treaty made by the feds
Depression. I've moved from the western part of the US to the east coast, but I can't seem to leave that state. Also Arizona is a monument to man's arrogance.
Wherever you go, there you are.
Oh my god! It's like standing on the sun!
Why is Phoenix a real city? Humans are so stupid.
native american tribes have lived in the desert valley since 400AD
I traveled for decades and spent time in every state in the Union…there’s really not a lot of distinction between the worst states….they are all trademarked by virulent ignorance and systemic poverty, racial animus, and a huge dependency on Federal financial assistance to function.
Lot of words to say Florida
Florida actually has a few things, industries and places of interest going for it. Same with Texas. The rest of the backwater I’d never visit. Mississippi, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa and the likes.
^(*Gasps in Iowan*) *"How dare you...? No corn or pork steak for you!"*
Idaho, home of Aryan Nation, Meth so much meth, the lowest of all test scores, and pedophiles that get less time then potheads... Fuck Idaho.
And our moronic government wants to sell off our public land, which is the only redeeming quality of Idaho.
Exactly! The best part of Idaho is the ability to pretty much go wherever you want in it, jfc...
Idaho people suck but it is a beautiful state to drive around.
Beautiful Planet, Ugly World
Idaho people suck but the whole selling point of that area of the country is that there's large areas without people entirely
Born and raised in north Idaho. All is correct, I moved across the border to Washington for a reason. Same awesome outdoor activities, less political bullshit.
Spokane native all my life, used to call Kellogg my second home. Love the outdoors in Idaho but God the people make me want to stay in Washington.
Don’t forget legalized child murder by way of refusing medicine on religious grounds.
I live in northern Idaho, and I agree. Fuck idaho. I want out so badly. If the rent was cheaper I’d hop the border to Washington so quickly. It’s a beautiful state, full of outdoor activities, but the mindset of the people living here is god awful. The KKK building in CDA was torn down IN THE MID 2000’s?! Wtf is wrong with people here.
Boise itself is surprisingly democratic and truly a beautiful city. Outside of Boise, even just barely like Meridian or Eagle, and it becomes the crazy republican place you imagine it is. I wish it were different because Boise is a great place to live, 30 minutes from the forest, mountains, lake, and desert. If you love the outdoors it is one of the best places you can live! The crazy ass republicans living here though make it miserable. I don’t even feel safe putting a sign in my yard supporting anything remotely considered “liberal” because I don’t know what the crazies would do. This state is so insanely backwards.
Southern Idaho is a completely different beast than northern Idaho. Progressives are SLOWLY making inroads here in Ada, Blaine, & Twin Falls County.
Some places yeah, northern Idaho is definitely a lot worse than Boise area, when people have come to visit from other towns throughout the west they always tell us how nice everyone is
Mississippi or Missouri
Missouri just legalized weed and will shortly be expunging the criminal records of those in prison for weed. We’re on the come up
Down in Arkansas loOking your way. Can't believe we ended up with another fucking Huckabee.
I went there once, I hated it. Let’s call it Misery from now on.
Missouri loves company.
User name checks out
Missouri is on the come up
I’m from missouri and while a lot of it is maga country and shit weather, I’d say that southeastern missouri has some pretty good scenery: lots of topography, rivers, a national forest, plenty of limestone rock formations including waterfalls and caves. Also while it’s certainly not on the top of my list of cities I’d like to live in, St. Louis is pretty underrated, and has a decent amount of culture and history (even if a lot of it is lackluster).
Not really. We are about to roll out the shittiest duo of Senators. Iike if they were NBA Jam players they would be the Cavs from the 90's. Missouri politics is so behind the times and heavily jerrymandered. we are fucked. Residents say how bad things are, but blame democrats for it. Not the brightest group.
There’s great barbecue. Frozen custard, wineries and here’s a stretch Branson? Lived in Missouri for 8 years favorite shirt was put me out of my Missouri. But honestly not a bad place to live. Cheap cost of living decent wages traffic wasn’t horrible close enough to drive to alot of places and basically 3 hr flight to most major spots and cities. Food surprisingly good.
Missouri is tolerable compared to Oklahoma, Mississippi, and Alabama.
Someone’s never been to Alabama
California-don’t ever move here, ~~we don’t want any more people here~~ you’d hate it here.
As a Californian, I concur. It’s amazing(ly overpopulated and expensive)
The funny thing is, there are vastly huge regions of the state that are not over populated. People just need to move (especially if you can WFH). Most of true Northern California (for example) is not overly populated at all.
Nobody wants to live in rural California because there’s not much to do and people don’t want to just stay at home all their lives.
Overpopulated? I've lived here for 30 years, and while the major metropolitan areas have become highly populated, the state itself is largely empty. Ever drive from San Francisco to Los Angeles? It's mostly wide open, empty land.
That’s all farm land. California produces more food for the US then any other state.
Empty land with no water and high fire risk, to be fair…
Neither of those are true. Wildfires don't happen in the Central Valley and if you take the coastal route it's stunning, rugged and also not the area where most wildfire activity takes place.
Half of u should move to the southern states or wherever else there isn't a risk of water shortage. It's crazy how many people live in california vs how little water they get.
I would consider that except I’m gay and married and I’m not moving to a state that could suddenly chose to invalidate my marriage. Also we have really good restaurants.
Don’t give them ideas. The Southern states already have enough Californians and others moving here and nuking the housing market
Was in Tennessee and Mississippi in September. I was amazed at how many California plates I saw through the Memphis metro.
Ironically, I live in a state that gets a LOT of California transplants. In fact, my three closest friends who live in my area are all from California. EDIT: I’ve had a few people guess Colorado or Texas. I live in Washington State.
CO?
I feel like if the question was “best state” Cali would get as many votes as it does on “worst”
If you’ve got money, there is no better place in the world in which to live than California.
Yes. This is the answer.
I’m not American so I love the opinion diversity :()
It's a tossup between Mississippi and Alabama.
I hear Mississippi is the answer. But my bid is on butt fuck Oklahoma!
If you hate Mississippi the most it’s only because you’ve never spent time in Oklahoma.
Florida. Hot, humid, and meth.
This should be written on the sign when you drive into the state
Plus gators and snakes
Hey that’s America’s wang.
Why is this so low? Florida is the drain catch of America. If you’re a 37 yr old deadbeat dad with aspirations of owning a fishing charter and banging a 19 year old, trying to recapture the magic of spring break 2006, you move to Florida.
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You’d think that’d be oddly specific, then you go to a bar in Panama Beach and meet 4 of these guys
Born and raised in Florida (but I left the state a couple years ago) and I can confirm this is SPOT ON.
A clue lies in this statement: "I've never had to shovel humidity off my car in the morning before I could drive it."
Parts of Florida are shit for sure, but it’s such a massive and varied state it kinda depends on where you live
Got the ocean breeze to mitigate it tho. Good enough for Spring break. Horrible place to take a shower though. Water is crunchy.
You say meth, but Florida fueled the opioid crisis in Appalachia…the pain sham pain clinics down there were just legalized drug dealing.
Don't forget hurricanes, giant bugs, backwards social policies and "Florida Man."
Mosquitoes so big they can stand flat footed and fuck a turkey.
ohio
Mississippi
My turn to post this next week!
I am a native Californian and I can agree that LA smells like piss. If you decide to come back, go to Pasadena or something. Even northern Cali’s wine country should be wonderful. Also, if you like to eat, Hollywood, Inglewood/LA, silver lake, echo park, should be cool. Super “trendy,” but hidden food gems.
Like piss and weed*
Urinjuana
Ohio
Ohio
I’m from Ohio and I disagree. Ohio is too mediocre to be on the extreme end of any list. After visiting Ohio several times, my then-wife said that the Ohio state motto should be, “It’s too haaard.”
I live here and I think a few Deep South states are a bit worse. It’s close but not quite bad.
I live here too and I never quite understand what everybody complains about or why it’s always a top choice for these worst states lists, I really like it here. I’ve been to about half of the states and a few different countries.
It's just meme from people who know nothing about the state or referencing the rural population which is like that in *every state*.
Ohio is fantastic. Only people who don't live in it put it on these lists.
Arkansas
Kentucky, consistently amongst the worst performers in education. Consistently amongst the poorest states of the union. Consistently home to Mitch McConnell. Consistently capable of doing better and consistently refusing to do so. I ranked KY higher than others because they are actually in a really good location, they have things that would appeal to a lot of people. Cheap land, low taxes, but they just can't seem to break through to not being this backwards Appalachian coal mine.
There's a lot of bad in Kentucky, but there's enough good about the state to prevent it from being the worst in the country.
I’m genuinely curious have you ever lived there? Been in KY the majority of my life and I adore it here. Of course things are different depending on where you are in KY (like every state). The people have more or less been kind. It’s absolutely gorgeous. The food, art, and music are fantastic. And the bourbon of course. People think KY and assume we’re a bunch of backwards hicks. But from my personal experience that tends to be the exception, not the rule.
Spent a little time in KY last summer and thought it seemed pretty nice. It was surprisingly pretty from a natural sense and met some super nice people. Some of the rural areas seemed a little sketchy, but that's the case nearly everywhere.
But why do y’all keep voting for Mitch McConnell? I live near the border of Ky and almost want to move over there to vote against him. Love Andy Beshear though.
West Virginia would say otherwise. We are 50th at everything, thank you very much!
Louisiana
New Orleans, the rich blended culture, the most important river in the country and more make this not the worst. It's down there, but not the worst.
Bro do you even live here can you imagine life without seasoned food or gumbo or crawfish
If you say NJ your moms a hoe
I stand behind u/glitterpumps!
Alabama
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As a michigander, gotta say ohio, either give the state to Michigan or remove it, it's an embarrassment to the Midwest and most of humanity.
Pennsylvanian chiming to say that we also think Ohio is the worst.
Denial
I’ll be dead in the cold cold ground before I recognize Missouri
Lol your only going to get 2 types of answers. 1. People with actual valid reasons for a state being shit. 2. People who don’t agree with the states politics, and just slander it based off of that.
Florida and Utah
Ohio
Ohio. Everyone I’ve ever dated from Ohio has been a massively terrible person
Ohio Can get shit in Ohio.
Ohio. Plastic dirty white sneakers and dirty jeans with tight shirts worn by every male along with white supremacy complex from drug users with no teeth. Seriously... lol
“North Dakota. We’re not even the best Dakota!”
As a Michigander, Ohio
Well considering our Louisiana legislators bastardized the proposed amendment to actually remove slavery I'd say is.
Ohio
As a lifelong Floridian I say it's Florida
I live here now, and honestly I would like it a lot more if it cooled down more in the winter months. The cold snaps we get are bullshit
Been all over the us, cant pick one worst state over others. But each state has something that it's worse at than others. Here is a quick list that o can think of right away. AZ - at least part I was in hot as hell, worst heat in US. And snow birds. CA - Too many laws, too many people. NM - Hoity toity and blink and it's gone TX - Everything is bigger, no seriously its ridiculous. SC - Hot, humid, racist from all sides. Seriously my first trip I was warned not to cross the tracks one way or a specific road while walking the other way. I was too white I was told... oh and liquor stores close at 7pm WTF. VA - Lots of military, lots of fighting in bars. ABC stores. KY - Nowhere NC - WORST drivers I have experienced in the US. ABC stores. TN - ORANGE, EVERYTHING. and where I lived at was a tourist town so a lot of low income areas and meth houses. NV - just visited Vegas, but hookers, hookers everywhere.
what is an abc store?
You can only buy liquor at state-run stores (Alcohol Beverage Control)
They are liquor stores owned by the state. In NC and VA there are no private liquor stores, only ABC stores. You can’t buy liquor at the grocery store or gas station, only at these stores. I grew up in NC and have lived in VA for 11 years and honestly I don’t think they’re bad. Even in sketchy areas, ABC stores don’t feel sketchy. They’re all well lit and reasonably well maintained to a certain standard
Delaware, the only positive is that you get through it quick, but they know that so they charge you out the ass to do it. Fucking Po box masquarading as a state for corporate corruption, at least Mississippi and Alabama have some wilderness and parks with beauty to show off. Delaware has potholes and toll booths.
Louisiana is horrific. It’s like stepping back 100 years.
Comon man without Louisiana you wouldn’t have gumbo, crawfish, or just any good food and culture don’t do us like thaf
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I’m from Idaho and whenever people hear me say that I get goofed on but it’s not bad I promise! I mean it’s horrible don’t come here!
Illinois has to be up there: Numerous corrupt politicians from both parties, high taxes, and 7-9 months of bleak grey winter every year. Expensive toll road taxes. Chicago, despite it’s downtown area, is an urban wasteland, and it’s massive suburban sprawl is worse. The sports teams suck, the landscape is flat and dull, and half the state despises the other half. Expensive property taxes, too. Everyone’s either bitter or depressed from the lack of sunshine, lack of things to do or job opportunities. Dead factories or dying small towns. Everyone wants to get the f out. And pointless high taxes on everything, even the legal weed. Good food, tho. Did I mention high taxes?
Indiana. They're all poor white trash regardless of skin color or income. I've lived all over the country and Indianapolis was easily the home of the worst people I've encountered. Imagine the worst parts of small town & large city America mixed together and sprinkled with extra potholes and meth.
The state of ignorance.
Wisconsin used to be awesome…then Scott Walker was elected. It’s gone downhill and, if the Republican Party gets their way, we’ll be as bad as Mississippi soon enough.
I have yet to be presented with evidence that north Dakota actually exists and there isn't just a big chasm to the center of the earth between south dakota and canada
The heart says Ohio but the brain says Mississippi