The U.S. of Shame -- What Is Your State Worst At? (The State of Washington -- YIKES!!)

[Yavin4]

Link:

http://pleated-jeans.com/2011/01/24/the-united-states-of-shame-chart/

NY's worst? Longest commuting time, and compared to some other states. I will take that.

Also, check out Mississippi:

24. Mississippi: highest rate of obesity (35.3 percent of total population)

BONUS facts: Mississippi ranks last in the most number of categories. These include highest rate of child poverty (31.9 percent), highest rate of infant mortality (10.3 percent) lowest median household income ($35,078), highest teen birth rate (71.9 per 1,000 women aged 15 to 19) and highest overall rate of STDs.

And its Governor, Haley Barbour, is a serious contender for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012?!?!


Finally, hey Colorado, all these years, and I thought that it was snow on your mountains.

[Suich]

1. Well, that's just embarassing!

:blush:

[SugarShack]

2. Illinois Most Corrupt State? Nah, Florida's Still Got It.

http://blogs.browardpalmbeach.com/pulp/2008/12/illinois_most_corrupt_state_na.php#

The New York Times' Bill Marsh found the statistics. When it comes to corruption, Florida crushes Illinois in terms of raw number of convicted officials. We're No. 1, with New York a rather distant second. Chicago's state falls all the way down the list to the seventh spot.

Yeah. That's what I thought. Hell, look at it this way, even with Gov. Blago's arrest last week, little old Deerfield Beach, pop. 80,000, whupped Illinois all by itself with two arrests at City Hall.

And something tells me -- let's call it intuition -- that our numbers are going to keep climbing.

[jobycom]

3. Don't be trashing Mississippi.

Barbour, hell yeah, trash him. But Mississippi gave the world Elvis, Faulkner, Eudora Welty, Walter Payton, Brett Favre, Jerry Rice, Howlin' Wolf, BB King, Muddy Waters, Morgan Freeman, and a lot of pretty cool people. Yeah, it gave us some dickheads, too, but where would American culture be without Mississippi's writers, bluesers, and rockers? Hell, we might not even rock if not for the Delta and Muddy Waters.

And it gave the world Jobycom, too. The world is mostly unimpressed, but that's the world's problem. Just thought you should know. :)

[im1013]

4. :)

:toast:

[Justitia]

7. and Tennessee Williams (I'm a huge fan)! -eom

[lob1]

18. I love Muddy Waters.

[Warren DeMontague]

5. I don't know. A lot of people don't think being anti-social, nerdy, or using porn are "shameful".

Drug use? Abortion? Binge Drinking? What gaggle of church ladies wrote this crap?

Honestly, I don't give a shit.

And if the worst thing they could come up with for Washington was that they had 4 beastiality cases in 2010... Okay, big fucking deal- so that's the worst in the country, but it's still only 4.

Just sort of a dumb chart.

[Yavin4]

8. It's A Big Deal If You're One of the Animals n/t

[johnroshan]

13. LMAO... good one. n/t

[Warren DeMontague]

20. Fair enough. But I think indicting WA state on the basis of 4 as opposed to, say, 3 somewhere else

is a bit unfair. Seems like kind of a stretch.

[billyclem]

21. As for Washington, I wonder if they counted the case

where a guy on the west side rigged a harness to hold himself so a horse could abuse him? He died from from the 'thrill'! It was sex with an animal, so I guess it counts.

[Warren DeMontague]

25. I swear, officer, I was just doing my Catherine the Great Impression!

See, I'm a history buff.

[sakabatou]

6. Air pollution, but that's So Cal's fault.

[handmade34]

9. lame....

Vermont- lowest birth rate of any state

[Forkboy]

10. Mass - worst drivers.

Shocker there.

[scarletwoman]

11. 23. Minnesota: highest number of reported tornadoes (123 in 2010). Woohoo!

Take THAT suckas! :woohoo:

sw

[laconicsax]

12. Since when is highest number of library visits per capita a bad thing?

:shrug:

[Foo Fighter]

14. I have to admit I got a chuckle out of the fact that Utah has the highest rate of

online porn subscriptions. From the link:

Utah's No. 1 ranking doesn't surprise Freestone, who works with sex offenders at his Comprehensive Treatment Clinic. Freestone has done searches on Google Trends, typing in words ranging from "swimsuits" to "naked girls," and found that Utah ranked No. 1 or 2 in most searches. A similar exercise by Deseret News reporter Lee Davidson in 2007 found that Utahns were more prone to search for words like "topless" and "pornography" (as well as "Jesus" and "home storage").

:rofl:

Jesus ranks right up there with "home storage." Priceless.

[Warren DeMontague]

26. Probably because they can't buy smut at the newsstand. Or they haven't figured out how to find it

for free on the net.

God Bless The Intertubes!!!

[NuclearDem]

15. That's all I get? 'Least green'?

Well...my adoptive home state at least is good at beating up females...

[Politicalboi]

16. California

Not being able to pass the legalization of Marijuana.

[yourout]

17. Wis - binge drinking. Having just elected Walker as Gov and Johnson to the Senate we dont need...

anymore reason to drink.

I tried to hold out hope that Walker would at least pretend to be middle of the road but it has become obvious from the starting gun he is a far right loon leading a flock of far right loons.

For at least the next two years there will be nothing but misery coming from the Capitol.

[Broken_Hero]

19. Suicide,

for my home state....

Bankruptcy for the current state in which I sleep.

:)

[Art_from_Ark]

22. So Maine is the "dumbest" state because the average SAT score

is 1389? When I took the SAT, that was damn near perfect. Meanwhile, Ohioans are too smart because they go to the library so much :crazy:

And Iowa has to hang its head in shame because 1.8% of its population is 85 or over? :wtf:

And my own state has the lowest average credit rating. BFD. If that's the worst that we're worst at, I can live with that.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

23. N. Dakota. Ouch!

[CrownPrinceBandar]

24. WV - Heart attacks? Nah, should be cancer.......

We're losing folks all over the place to cancer here (see sig line).

[Blue_In_AK]

27. I haven't looked yet, but I would guess

that Alaska is infamous for having the country's highest per capita rate of sexual assault.


ed. Oh, yes, the suicides, of course. Suicides and sexual assault. Woo-hoo -- we're number one, we're number one.