What's the worst thing about your state?

[LiberalElite]

http://www.policymic.com/articles/64665/what-is-the-most-screwed-up-thing-about-your-state-check-this-chart

For all the U-S-A, U-S-A rah rah that goes around, the United States can be a shameful place.

The below map lays out some of the statistically worst things about each state. It covers everything from health to crime to travel to drug use. Some states don't have it so bad (Ohio, the "nerdiest&quot but others really kind of suck (Mississippi has the highest rate of obesity at 35.3% of total population ... and ranks poorly in the most number of categories. These include highest rate of child poverty at 31.9%, highest rate of infant mortality at 1.01%, lowest median household income at $35,078, lowest teacher salary in 2013, highest teen birth rate at 71.9 per 1,000 women aged 15 to 19 and highest overall rate of STDs. Phew.). The map was originally produced by pleatedjeans.com and the Cartographic Research Lab at the University of Alabama, and gathers from an array of sources.

[liberal N proud]

1. Being nerdy is not a bad thing!

[LiberalElite]

3. Agreed - n/t

[Aristus]

2. High sales taxes.

We have a reputation as being a progressive state, but our politicians seem to live in fear of instituting a progressive state income tax. So year after year, we pay for state and civic infrastructure with ever-increasing, regressive sales taxes.

[femmocrat]

4. PA: I would have said Corbutt.....

but it's the highest rate of arson deaths.

[Curmudgeoness]

8. I think you are more accurate.

Corbett is the bane of PA. We can't get rid of him quick enough, and I don't know how long it will take to undo the damage.

[Skittles]

5. right now, Carnival Cruz

[rurallib]

6. Terry Branstad, Matt Schultz and Kim Reynolds

oops almost forgot Grassley and Steve King

[Itchinjim]

7. Beat me to it fellow Hawkeye.

[cyberswede]

22. +1 (but the article says "oldest state")

Iowa: highest percentage of people age 85 and older (1.8 percent) (tied with three other states)

Doesn't that imply we live a long time?

[raccoon]

9. It's full of conservatives, Republicans, and fundies. nt

[TheCowsCameHome]

10. There's still any republicans holding office at all.

[idahoblue]

11. Repugs

[charmay]

12. I know that in Wisconsin, Wanker has caused more than a few binge drinking episodes.

[ellenfl]

13. i was going to say gov. voldemort. eom

[ancianita]

14. So many choices...being last in the country in public school funding...ALEC sellouts in legislature

...Dick Durbin, Rahm Emanuel...lead contamination...Monsanto farming centers...

Thanks for the chart.

[Nay]

15. VA -- motorcycle deaths. Interesting personal story.....

A couple of years ago, a friend was in a bad motorcycle accident on a rainy day as he was going to work. There were 4 other unrelated motorcycle accidents in the area that day. My friend was the only one who lived through his.

[krhines]

16. The DeVos and Prince family's.

[RosieS57]

17. ID theft? Naw.

Everyone now knows it is Florida's corrupt judicial system.

Regards from Rosie

[pscot]

18. Too many people

[kairos12]

19. In my state Gilligan is revered and the Professor is hated because he believes in global

Warning.

[yurbud]

20. It's overwhelmingly Democratic but we still get neoliberal policies shoved down our throats

[BillyRibs]

21. New Jersey

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Governor Fat (Shoe shine Box) Boy Christy!
I hope we can change that this Fall!