New Hampshire ranks above Massachusetts because they enjoy the freedom of a low tax, libertarian style government, but still live close enough to Massachusetts to mooch off of our job market and the Healthcare system our taxes pay for.
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New Hampshire is beginning to circle the drain, I'm afraid. The legislature is slowly being captured by the extremist "free-staters" - you should see some of these bills. Our last 2 (R) governors have acted as a bulwark against the worst of the crazy, evil shit, but they also veto anything good that somehow makes it through. Yeah, we still have some old-school capital-c conservatives hanging on. Most of the rest of our state politicians down through to the town board level have personalities that make a wet piece of cardboard look like Che Guevara, and offer policy proposals to match.
I did not expect number 5 to be Utah.
Mormons don’t drink, I believe?
I wonder how much that impacts the overall figures.
Yeah makes me wonder how much of this is self-reported bullshit. I can believe New Hampshire, it's tiny and mostly progressive. But Utah is huge, conservative and mostly captured by drones (45%) who wouldn't say anything bad about their life because they wouldn't want it to reflect poorly on the church.
I've visited Utah a few times, it's kinda boring but it really is surprisingly and pretty consistently nice.
I'm not Mormon, but definite retirement consideration. Really, how huge the church is is the only thing stopping me.
There's quite a few surprises on the map for me.
The high numbers: #5, #6, #16... Expected the desert life and the northern area right next to the dakotas to be bleak. Also for idaho to be a bunch of suffering farmers that offset the few civilized areas.
The middle numbers: #17, 20, 23, 27, 29... I expected all of those to be much lower.
Low numbers: #40 stood out. For all the horror of texas, it has a lot of money in the big cities and the oil fields.
As someone from the south, most of us are just happy any day we can say that 'At least we beat Mississippi'. Thank god for Mississippi is also a common phrase.
Also, I know what happened to Louisiana, but man what is happening in Arkansas.
Walmart Home Office is in Arkansas....
Who could have foreseen Louisiana steeling the title from Mississippi and Arkansas? That takes an impressive amount of effort.
You'd think Katrina would have got them there, but it even took a dozen or so more. Louisiana has been getting hammered.
I'm more surprised that Oklahoma is less bad than Mississippi, Arkansas and Louisiana.
They've been at the back of the pack for a while. Oklahoma City manages to keep them from the title, mainly due to the small population of the state as a whole not being enough to drag it down.
OKC and Tulsa manages to keep them from being dead last, but Broken Arrow tries as hard as possible to pull them back.
Idaho > Oregon does not seem correct.
This confirmed my hypothesis that North Carolina is the best Carolina