Those sections of Jersey are not white trashy. It just happens to be the chemical capital of the northeast.:D Northern Jersey is actually the "rich" part of the state.
South Jersey is the trashy part of the state. But Jersey is funny too. My area for example, In my neighborhood you have million dollar homes, cross over the main intersection (Rt 9) to the other side 200 feet away, and it is like the casting call for "Joe Dirt". Scary people over there. Lots of old Trans Ams on blocks on the front lawn. People sitting on car seats on the front porch. Stuff like that.

If you look at the rates at which people are leaving, CA may be at the top of this list too.

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No matter where you live there is going to be (insert slur here). I just depends on if you choose to see it or not. I have lived all over the U.S. and currently live in New England. The people from the South are generally the friendliest, the Northeast the rudest, Pac NW the heaviest beer drinkers, TX and Cali the most self centered, and the Mid-West the most bland. That's not to say I haven't enjoyed the many different areas I have lived in, but on the contrary, I have made many good friends, had many wonderful times, and seen unbelievable vistas, but if I had to choose one place to spend the rest of my days that would be Peru.

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New Mexico's Hurtin
 

I would bet on New Mexico. Trailer trash, illegals, pollution. just the pits. Third world state from the Arizona border all the way to El Paso...They should move El Paso over to New Mexico. Really bad.. Just follow the 10 frwy trough hell. Looks like Tijuana all the way....

NJ has a very bad rap in our town. and it's not the southern part that has earned it. i've been to the southern section of NJ and it caused me to wonder why NJ is considered such a dump; it was beautiful. but for AC it is very nice. some of those s. nj boys are hardcore duck hunting fiends too. very healthy sneak boat scene there if you like such a thing (i love small duck boats).

trashiest place i've been personally is Florida. resort towns like ours (in Maryland)seem to get a lot of people running away from their problems. they come here, talk a lot of *****, screw up again and then they head for Fla. claiming untold riches are there for the taking.

Delaware is a right pitiful place too. visit a wal-mart in a de. town and you need counseling just to get out of the depression it puts you in.

Only been as far N as SD, but this applies as well. Normally the more boring the landscape, the more friendly, hardworking, and unassuming the population. KS, NE, ND, SD, etc may not be So-Cal, but do feature people that still give a ***** about each other.

Of all the states, only Florida has its own tag on Fark.... that should tell you something...

I have traveled far and wide - and Kansas feed lots are the worst thing I have come across...

QUOTE: "I've actually been to Missouri, but it just struck me as a whole lot of nothing."
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Perfect! Our 'Grand Plan' is working ... just as we anticipated it would. (handshakes all around)

PLEASE, ALL of you ...continue to pass through, on your way elsewhere! There is nothing here for you.

Carry on.

Hard to argue. The towns stupid enough to allow them have the smell as a constant companion, as well as being deluged with illegal immigrants. Dodge City and Garden City not only smell like ass, they closely resemble Mexico City. Americans are definitely the minority.

Tough call. I incline to Flori-duh.

I think New Mexico might just take the title, but, as bad as it is, it's inconsequential, so it doesn't have the 'reputation.'

JP

A good overall index of intelligence, education, economy, etc., is that map showing states in blue or red. The states mentioned above are indeed infamous for their lack of industriousness, and they are bastions of redness. Industriousness and productivity show a strong negative correlation to political conservativeness.

Hmmmmmm........

I grew up in Taylortucky!!!!!!

wow!
 

Hey, I'm in Wyandotte (Polka for the Gold!) We call Grosse Ile "Taylor By the Sea"

You forgot poor highways. I've seen them repave I-20 in Lousiana right over the potholes and bumps, then they had a drunk blind man paint the stripes (of course this just points back to the graft and corruption issue). At least the other southern states have good highways.

I dated a girl that lived in Grosse Ile when I was in high school. She was pretty trailer, she was originally from the panhandle of Florida, but buckwild in the sack!!!!

Oregon state cop stops a car with Missouri plates.

"Do you have any I.D.?"

Driver: ""Bout What?"

QUOTE: "A good overall index of intelligence, education, economy, etc., is that map showing states in blue or red. The states mentioned above are indeed infamous for their lack of industriousness, and they are bastions of redness. Industriousness and productivity show a strong negative correlation to political conservativeness."
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LOL ...This thread just HAD to take a political turn eventually!

That must be why so many companies are relocating to the south...

Do you have that quote in green, because that is one asinine statement

Could this quote be set to music? I hear a country hit in here someplace..

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Please direct me to your pharmacist. I would welcome a reprieve from reality.

Yeah, that and cheap labor.

Lots of denial going on here. Tell ya what. create a database with the fifty states on it, their political orientation, and then just about any meaningful measure. Per capita income, for example. Education. Anything meaningful. See how those things correlate with liberal/conservative. And just as an example....Washington State. HUGELY liberal. Also one of the very most educated states in the union, if not the most educated. More books read per capita than anybody. Income.....HIGH. This is a pretty well-established brute fact unless........you're from one of them red states. In which case, the truth is just about anything you want it to be.

New Jersey has the highest number of toxic waste dumps per capita...
California has the highest number of lawyers per capita...
Why?
New Jersey had first pick.

Ba dum ching!

Virginia is Red and better educated!

UVA
JMU
VT
ODU
UR
Georgetown
Mary Baldwin
George Mason
William & Mary
Hampton University
Marymount University
Randolf_Macon
Roanoke College
University of Mary Washington
VCU
VMI
W&L

Feel free to bask in your superiority Supe, but I'll take simple friendly midwestern folk any day. Pretentious intellectual snobs may make for fun demographic information, but make for pretty poor friends and neighbors. All your fun statistics say to me is a lot of people have had the common sense educated right out of them. Blue states and liberal policies embrace our society's move towards a total lack of personal responsibility, as well as entitlement policies that have created an entire generation of citizens that are slaves to the government. You can have it.

Stereotypes are great. I'm an aerospace engineer, and work at one of the world's leading aircraft companies. I'll be sure to bring this topic up with my co-workers when we're working the fields with oxen.:rolleyes: Oh yeah, and I love to read.

That's more like it, Matt. Accept the cold hard facts, but pretend like education and commerce are bad things.

Liberalism is a defect....

Is it a shock to you that agricultural states tend to not only have a lower per capita income, or less citizens with a college degree? What would you propose to remedy this "problem"? Train the farmers as lawyers? Hope you don't like, ummmm, bread.

Thanks for perfectly proving my point about over-educated elitist liberals. If you didn't come across as such snobs, people might actually vote for some of your politicians.

Yeah, in the meantime Matt, why don't you make some generalizations and assumptions about City Slickers and Superman as "elitist liberals." I know about small town values, and this name-calling is not one of them.

Now what are you smoking, and where can I get some?

The question is"Which state has the worst reputation"? Well its a bit nebulous. Better we should ask which state has the worst reputation for corruption, or voluntary unemployment, or high crime , ya know specifics.

FWIW, I luv Jersey, no earthquakes, no tornadoes, no forest fires, plenty of work. Besides after being here all of my life, no decent state would have me!

I WANNA PLAY TOO

City slickers are smug NPD e-dorks who drink double foam lattes from starbucks while praising each others metro sexuality then go to the Y and dream about swallowing load.

:D

I beg to differ. I just purchased a home in Las Cruces. Yes, there are poor folk here, but you don't really see much "trash". Most of the trailer-dwellers have jobs (our state has one of the lowest unemployment rates in the nation right now). Seems to be a good work ethic and very little (relatively speaking) crime. There are some "wanna-be" gang-bangers running around, but they're little punks. Nothing like the types you see in Los Angeles or Oakland.

My home is surrounded by $1mil properties (I guess that makes me the "white trash" on the block :D ).

I am overwhelmed by politeness, from the store clerks to the customer service people, and when someone with borderline English skills approaches, they attempt to speak to you in English first (unlike Miami where I'm moving from...if you no speak-a de Espanol, screw you).

Might want to give New Mexico (Las Cruces) another look. Las Cruces is the last SouthWestern city with good weather that isn't f'ed up yet (read: Yuma, Phoenix, Tucson, Las Vegas, El Paso).

Speaking of El Paso, have you spent any time there? It's a major sheet-hole due to its proximity to Juarez (yet a bigger sheet-hole). Most anybody who has the where-with-all lives in Las Cruces and commutes to El Paso.

Easy. Why do you think they film "COPS" in Florida?

Hell...they could film an entire year on the neighborhood across the street from me (Pompano Beach, North of Atlantic).

I moved here from San Diego in 2000 and absolutely cannot assimilate. So many scumbags from all walks of life (and all countries...and all economic classes), it's overwhelming. I cannot wait to get the F out of here.

(South) Florida is the #1 sheet dump in the nation, bar none.

Considering your previous post was explaining how ultra-liberal and industrialized states are superior to rural conservative states, I'd say you did that for me. As for elitist, looking down on others because you have more education, more money, and read more books:rolleyes:, is nearly the definition of the term.

Wait,......You mean people actually live in N.D.?