Florida.
never been to either of the two. In fact, never been to the US.
But I also wanted to say florida by instinct
Florida has much more lax reporting laws. More or less, as long as it’s anonymized (Florida man/woman, rather than a name) it can/will be reported, versus other states requiring much more stringent care. What goes on behind closed doors is always worse than what you see.
I expect the biggest shithole to be so shitty that there’s never anything to mention
I’m not a huge fan of Florida, but at least it has a large variety of things to offer. Schools, entertainment, sports, amusement parks, national parks, beaches, etc.
Mississippi, generally speaking. Also high on the list, for me, is Bama, Louisiana, SC, Arkansas, West Virginia, Oklahoma, and Idaho. They all have redeeming communities and places, but in general, I don’t want to live in any of those states. Before anyone asks, I’ve been to all of them.
Louisiana has some damn good food, at least.
But yeah, those three states clustered together… Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama seem to always be competing with one another for the most impoverished, crime ridden, and poorly educated of the states unfortunately.
If you don’t mind me asking, why sc?
Gangs around Columbia, issues with education, the weather, spiders shouldn’t grow that large, etc.
Fair enough
It seems like Mississippi mainly wants to make life miserable for Mississippians, while Alabama wants to spread their ruin across the the US.
Alabama is larger than Mississippi, so it is the bigger shit hole.
Mississippi, it isn’t even close.
The calendar is lying when it reads the present time
I literally cannot believe we are arguing about this bullshit when Ohio exists
Well… Having been in all 3, I can’t see why you are bringing Ohio in to this. Sure, the Buckeye state has its problems, but MS and AL are way worse.
Ohio is just boring. I mean it’s got its problems for sure, but compared to the Deep south?
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I’ve driven the back country highways of both for hundreds of miles. AL is hands down far nicer than MS, not even a contest.
To me, the more interesting questions are ‘why?’ and ‘what?’
Why are they so bad? What keeps them down and how can it be turned around?
Religion and conservative politics
Arkansas
That’s like asking, would you rather run 1000 or 1001 miles without stopping?
As a non USer, I’ve always thought Louisiana would take the crown.
LA is the armpit for sure, but the other two I wouldn’t even stop in the state unless I needed gas.
I’ve never been to any of those states, but I have a friend who lived in Louisiana for a while. He said they are a strange breed of people, plus there’s alligator everywhere.
Louisiana at least has culture in the “this is a fun celebration” instead of “this is institutionalized racism and classism with extra steps”.
Anytime you’re saying something about an entire state, you have to really generalize or evaluate it on state-level attributes. Both those states have cities with populations over 100
millionthousand (Huntsville AL is over 200millionthousand).Looking at Bureau of Labor Statistics data, it looks like both states have a similar number of counties with weekly average wages below national average.
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I think Alabama has a slightly stronger economy and less unemployment.
Uh I think you might be off by a few orders of magnitude, I’m pretty sure that, of the roughly 360 million people in the US, 300+ of them do not live in either AL or MS
Lol, yes, I said million instead of thousands. Just a little off.
Huntsville, Al has a population of 216,936.
You need to check your math.
Yeah, I said million and meant thousand - but why are we quibbling over three orders of magnitude?
I was looking at giant numbers all day at work and my brain didn’t reset. Sorry about that.
