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.?