How Americans feel about the states

A Poll Asked America Which States Were The Drunkest, The Hottest And Which Had The Silliest Accents, etc.
http://www.businessinsider.com/poll-how-americans-feel-about-the-states-2013-8

Interestingly, New York was picked as having both the best and the worst sports fans. Not surprisingly, it was also picked as the rudest.



"The nicest state in the U.S.?
Despite the muscular middle fingers you may have seen in Atlanta traffic this morning, that title belongs to Georgia. Actually, we share it with Minnesota, which, last I checked, had to cheat to win their last World Series."
http://blogs.ajc.com/news-to-me/2013/08/21/survey-georgia-nicest-alabama-ugliest/

I don't think Slipdigit will appreciate some of the commentary on the poll in this blog, but what would we do without Alabama and Mississippi to kick around?

 

I fancy a trip to Louisiana

:drink_a_pint:

 

Suggest you watch the movie Southern Comfort first.

 

Oh sir! I expected better of you. Especially, being The Great State of Louisiana's next door neighbor. Loooseana is a magnificent state, you'll find no friendlier people, unless you pizz them off in which case no worse enemy. That hot Cajin temper you know, also something that makes their women particularly appealing.

 

Well you don't just go stealing a man's canoe.

 

Actually, I was born there! From good border state (Maryland-West Virginia) stock no less!

It could have been worse, the parents could have gone further south and I could have been stamped "Hecho in Mexico"!

 

Well some good and some bad on an international level. According to this poll Newark is the unfriendliest city in the world with a few other US cities also making the top 20.

Out of the top 20 Friendliest cities Charlestown SC was the highest ranked US city at 5. Also included in friendly cities was Galena, Il. Savannah, Ga. and Asheville, NC.

Edit: oops - forgot the link http://www.cntraveler.com/daily-traveler/2013/07/world-travel-dublin-auckland-cork-friendly-unfriendly-cities_slideshow_item0_1

 

The poll respondents have apparently never seen the Alabama cheerleaders. I doubt Musburger would agree after stepping on his tongue over McCarron's girlfriend/Miss Alabama.

 

Really! me too. Where at? Me East Baton Rouge Hospital. We were, well my mother was living in French Settlement with her sister and my uncle John. My dad was just coming back or leaving on a deployment, don't remember which, I was rather young. Kinda' hard to hear all the details when you're hanging out in a womb too.

 

Those other folks really don't know what they're missing, and like you I'd just as soon keep it that way.

 

Alaska has the worst food? We export luxury seafood to the whole world, and nobody cooks it better than the locals. Fresh king crab, halibut, salmon and scallops the size of tennis balls don't cut it?

Yeah, as somebody said earlier, I don't think many of the respondents have actually visited the states they voted on.

Some of those generalities in the poll are true though. The people in the deep south are the friendliest. It's part of the culture and it's a sincere friendliness rather than the "have a nice day" formality of some other places.

 

It's all about clichés I'm afraid. The polls should be made by people who have actually been to the mentionned states, not what they know about them via soap operas and thrillers. I'm sure the results would be entirely different.

 

I find it interesting that I moved from an underrated state to an underrated country.

 

Obviously, Mr. Mathis has never heard of the term "gamesmanship", nor the Law of Inertia (see video at 1:34):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VKXIdYHkj4&feature=player_detailpage#t=70

 

Actually it was a pirouge. Don't run another man's trot lines or poach his crawfish either and you'll be ok.

 

I hear banjo's

 

They don't play banjo's in the swamp and pirouges don't get lanced.