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This is actually one of the best maps on here in a while. If you know the US discourse, you can clearly read the stereotypes, political bubbles and straight-up ignorance of the various different people that were surveyed.

Illinois gets dinged because of racist narrative around Chicago. Montana does better than the rest of the midwest because it's romaticised. The people who hate California are a different bunch than the ones who hate Illinois or, for the most part, Alabama. NJ is mainly known from jokes at their expense by media-powerhouse New York. Few people know enough about South Dakota to care. DC just absorbs opinions of the feds.

I don't get the love-on for North Carolina and Pennsylvania, I guess.

The scenery is the only thing keeping TN green i assure yall

Finally a map that isn't just a population distribution.

As a Californian, you're all just jealous. I will sit atop my pile of avocados and wildfires and functional economy.

I'm surprised Jersey is rated so low relative to Texas having lived in both states.

Georgia deserves its score. Georgia is great aside from the Atlanta traffic design.

West Virginia somehow scores higher than california?? Has anyone actually been to west virginia?

NC let's fucking gooooo!

Lol, give me a break and show me the data sources.

I don't believe this at all. Who did they ask?

Ohio is way too high. I moved there for a year, first time I talked to the cashier at the local grocery store, I said I moved here from so and so and her knee jerk response was a snarky “why?”

Cleveland is the best hidden gem about that state and that’s saying something.

Also, I’ve oddly had a few good ventures out in Alabama. Fairhope on the bay in particular was much nicer than my preconceived notions had expected. There’s a few good fancy restaurants in downtown Montgomery that are cheaper than equivalents in other states. And Auburn’s campus is a dream, hate what happened to those trees on Toomer’s corner though.

As someone who used to live in NC but no longer does because of the car dependence and horrible state politics, how the heck is it one of the highest ones? I didn't think the other states even thought about NC very much outside of election season tbh.

At least we can all agree that Hawaii is awesome

That's a wild score for Florida. Do people just like Walt Disney World that much?

How in the hell does Oregon and Washington get mid like that? What'd we ever do to you but enjoy our trees and rain?

How do you like a big dumb desert and deserts little cousin more than us???

As a South Carolinian, let me confirm that we do not deserve a positive rating. I love my state, but its government is run by rich idiots.

So who was the sample group? And what what the size? Also what was the criteria? This just seems weirdly subjective.

Surprised that nowhere is negative actually.

Alaska makes sense as the most popular in perception I suppose

Edit: I didn't even see Hawaii there! Just popular due to tropical features judging by comparison to other politically aligned states, and those with similarly extremely racist backgrounds

Growing up, my father was in the military, so we moved every 3 years. One of our locations was northern Alabama, and I remember crying about it at the time because I really didn't want to live there and had always heard bad things about it.

Actually living there, it's fine. The Huntsville area has NASA and a lot of aerospace jobs, and is generally a nice and pleasant place to live. You can buy houses within a 30-45 min commute of pretty good jobs for surprisingly cheap (was just looking at a 3000+ sq ft brick house with a couple acres for $120k, needed a new AC unit and some work, but nice enough to live in while you fix it up). The people are really friendly compared to most other states I lived in, and the countryside is pretty beautiful.

I can't speak for most of the rest of the state, but in general I think Alabama gets a worse reputation than it deserves. Biggest issues with it are the tornados and humidity.

As I often find myself saying, yes, New Jersey is terrible, please don’t visit.