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Posted by PHXTUSbusfan on Sat Jan 29 20:58:20 2011  |
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Posted by Easy on Sat Jan 29 21:04:09 2011, in response to The United States of Shame, posted by PHXTUSbusfan on Sat Jan 29 20:58:20 2011. California is the nations leader in controlling air pollution. |
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Posted by SMAZ on Sat Jan 29 21:06:12 2011, in response to Re: The United States of Shame, posted by Easy on Sat Jan 29 21:04:09 2011. Nothing on that map makes any sense. |
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Posted by Fred G on Sat Jan 29 21:19:42 2011, in response to Re: The United States of Shame, posted by SMAZ on Sat Jan 29 21:06:12 2011. Oh yes it does.Massachusetts - Worst Drivers! your pal, Fred |
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Posted by PHXTUSbusfan on Sat Jan 29 21:28:30 2011, in response to The United States of Shame, posted by PHXTUSbusfan on Sat Jan 29 20:58:20 2011. Rationale and statistics:Most stats taken from http://www.americashealthrankings.org/ and http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/rankings.html (unless otherwise noted) 1. Alabama: highest rate of stroke (3.8 percent) (tied with Oklahoma) 2. Alaska: highest suicide rate (23.6 suicides per 100,000 people in 2004) 3. Arizona: highest rate of alcoholism 4. Arkansas: worst average credit score (636) http://www.talkbusiness.net/article/ARKANSAS-RANKS-LAST-IN-CREDIT-SCORE-AVERAGES/1007/ 5. California: most air pollution (15.2 micrograms per cubic meter) 6. Colorado: highest rate of cocaine use per capita (3.9 percent total population) 7. Connecticut: highest rate of breast cancer http://www.statehealthfacts.org/comparemaptable.jsp?ind=469&cat=10&sub=112&sort=a 8. Delaware: highest abortion rate (27 per 1,000 women aged 15 to 44) 9. Florida: highest rate of identity theft (122.3 reports per 100,000 people) 10. Georgia: sickly based on highest rate of influenza 11. Hawaii –highest cost of living (tied with California) http://www.cnbc.com/id/38148092/States_With_the_Highest_Cost_of_Living?slide=11 12. Idaho – lowest level of Congressional clout http://www.newwest.net/topic/article/roll_call_rocky_mountain_states_still_at_bottom_of_congressional_clout_list/C559/L559/ 13. Illinois: highest rate of robbery (284.7 incidences per 100,000 people) 14. Indiana: rated the most environmentally unfriendly by NMI solutions http://www.environmentalleader.com/2010/09/15/indiana-comes-in-last-on-green-state-ranking/ 15. Iowa: highest percentage of people age 85 and older (1.8 percent) (tied with three other states) http://www.statemaster.com/graph/peo_per_of_peo_who_are_85_yea_and_ove-percent-who-85-years-over 16. Kansas: poorest health based on highest average number of limited activity days per month (3.5 days) http://www.statemaster.com/graph/hea_lim_act_day_per_mon-limited-activity-days-per-month 17. Kentucky: most cancer deaths (227 per 100,000 people) (BONUS fact: Kentucky also has the highest rate of tobacco smokers – 25.6 percent) 18. Louisiana: highest rate of gonorrhea (264.4 reported cases per 100,000 people) http://www.statemaster.com/graph/hea_gon_rat-health-gonorrhea-rate 19. Maine: dumbest state claim based on lowest average SAT score (1389) http://www.commonwealthfoundation.org/policyblog/detail/2010-sat-scores-by-state 20. Maryland: highest rate of AIDS diagnosis (27.6 people per 100,000 people) http://www.avert.org/usa-states-cities.htm 21. Massachusetts: worst drivers claim based on highest rate of auto accidents http://www.theautochannel.com/news/2002/11/11/150352.html 22. Michigan: highest unemployment rate (13.6 percent) 23. Minnesota: highest number of reported tornadoes (123 in 2010) http://woodbury.kstp.com/content/minnesota-ranks-first-nation-tornado-reports-2010 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. 25. Missouri: highest rate of bankruptcy (700 out of every 100,000 people) http://www.bcsalliance.com/bankruptcy_statestats.html 26. Montana: highest rate of drunk driving deaths (1.12 deaths per 100 million miles driven) http://helenair.com/lifestyles/article_c48ad0a6-bce0-5f69-931e-dc5ca0f83583.html 27. Nebraska: highest rate of women murdered annually 28. Nevada: highest rate violent crime (702.2 offenses per 100,000 people). BONUS fact: Nevada also has the highest rate of foreclosure (one in 99 houses) 29. New Hampshire: highest rate of corporate taxes http://newhampshire.watchdog.org/7194/nh-ranks-last-in-corporate-tax-climate-7th-best-for-business-overall/ 30. New Jersey: highest rate of citizen taxation (11.8 percent) http://retirementliving.com/RLtaxes.html 31. New Mexico: antisocial claim based on lowest ranking in social heath policies http://www.lasg.org/NMecon05.htm 32. New York: longest average daily commute (30.6 minutes) http://www.statemaster.com/graph/lab_mea_tra_tim_to_wor-labor-mean-travel-time-work 33. North Carolina: lowest average teacher salary http://www.southernstudies.org/2008/01/north-carolina-ranks-last-for-teacher.html 34. North Dakota: ranked last in ugliest residents report as chosen by The Daily Beast http://www.thedailybeast.com/galleries/1272/1/?redirectURL=http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-02-01/the-most-and-least-attractive-states/ 35. Ohio: nerdiest state claim based on highest number of library visits per capita (6.9) http://www.statemaster.com/graph/edu_pub_lib_lib_vis_per_cap-libraries-library-visits-per-capita 36. Oklahoma: highest rate of female incarceration 37. Oregon: highest rate of long-term homeless people 38. Pennsylvania: highest rate of arson deaths (55.56 annually) http://www.statemaster.com/graph/cri_ars_dea-crime-arson-deaths 39. Rhode Island: highest rate of illicit drug use (12.5 percent of population) http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/11/drug-use-across-the-united-states-or-rhode-island-needs-more-rehab/ 40. South Carolina: highest percentage of mobile homes (18.8 percent) http://www.statemaster.com/graph/hou_per_of_hou_uni_tha_are_mob_hom-housing-percent-units-mobile-homes 41. South Dakota: highest rate of forcible rape 76.5 per 100,000 42. Tennessee: chosen most corrupt state by The Daily Beast http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-05-11/the-most-corrupt-states/ 43. Texas: lowest high school graduation rate (78.3 percent) http://www.statemaster.com/graph/edu_hig_sch_dip_or_hig_by_per-high-school-diploma-higher-percentage 44. Utah: highest rate of of online porn subscriptions http://www.deseretnews.com/article/705288350/Utah-No-1-in-online-porn-subscriptions-report-says.html 45. Vermont: infertility claim based on lowest birth rate of any state (10.6 births per 1,000) (tied with Maine) http://www.statemaster.com/graph/hea_bir_rat_per_100-birth-rate-per-1-000 46. Virginia: highest number of alcohol-related motorcyle deaths http://www.vabiker.net/2008/09/virginia-ranks-last-nationally-in-alcohol-related-motorcycle-deaths/ 47. Washington: most cases of bestiality (4 reported in 2010) http://www.pet-abuse.com/pages/cruelty_database/statistics/state_ranking.php?year=2010&search=go 48. West Virginia: highest rate of heart attack (6.5 percent of population) 49. Wisconsin: highest rate of binge drinking (23.2 percent of population) 50. Wyoming: highest rate of deadly car crashes (24.6 deaths per 100,000) http://www.autoinsurancequotealert.com/news/wyoming-leads-nation-with-highest-motor-vehicle-fatality-rate/ Source for everything: http://pleated-jeans.com/2011/01/24/the-united-states-of-shame-chart/ |
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Posted by SMAZ on Sat Jan 29 21:38:12 2011, in response to Re: The United States of Shame, posted by Fred G on Sat Jan 29 21:19:42 2011. Very true. I have always been of that opinion myself. |
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Posted by SMAZ on Sat Jan 29 21:42:40 2011, in response to Re: The United States of Shame - EXPLANATIONS, posted by PHXTUSbusfan on Sat Jan 29 21:28:30 2011. Very interesting. I retract my previous post. |
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Posted by AlM on Sat Jan 29 21:47:31 2011, in response to Re: The United States of Shame, posted by SMAZ on Sat Jan 29 21:06:12 2011. Some of them do.MA, NY, and CA for sure. CA may do the most to control pollution but they still have the worst. AZ - high American Indian population, and they have a well known genetic intolerance for alcohol. ND and ME really seem like they had to stretch to find anything though. |
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Posted by Olog-hai on Sat Jan 29 21:53:41 2011, in response to Re: The United States of Shame, posted by Fred G on Sat Jan 29 21:19:42 2011. IAWTP. |
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Posted by AlM on Sat Jan 29 22:04:30 2011, in response to Re: The United States of Shame - EXPLANATIONS, posted by PHXTUSbusfan on Sat Jan 29 21:28:30 2011. Nebraska surprises me. Not a state I associate with lots of crime of any type.NV less so. Almost everyone lives in the Las Vegas area, so they don't get the benefit of lower rural and suburban crime rates the way other states with high crime cities. WY doesn't surprise me. Lots of 2-lane rural roads, not as straight as in some other states. Good opportunity for single car crashes where the car leaves the road at 85 mph. UT. Of course. You can't get porn in your 7-11. |
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Posted by orange blossom special on Sun Jan 30 12:14:24 2011, in response to The United States of Shame, posted by PHXTUSbusfan on Sat Jan 29 20:58:20 2011. The best they can do is call Native Americans Ugly and NY has bad commutes? |
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Posted by JayMan on Sun Jan 30 14:45:11 2011, in response to The United States of Shame, posted by PHXTUSbusfan on Sat Jan 29 20:58:20 2011. Of course that whole daily commute bit about New York is the four outer boroughs of New York City... |
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Posted by JayMan on Sun Jan 30 14:45:35 2011, in response to The United States of Shame, posted by PHXTUSbusfan on Sat Jan 29 20:58:20 2011. Of course that whole daily commute bit about New York consists of the four outer boroughs of New York City... |
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Posted by JayMan on Sun Jan 30 14:49:24 2011, in response to Re: The United States of Shame - EXPLANATIONS, posted by PHXTUSbusfan on Sat Jan 29 21:28:30 2011. And that bit about ND being the ugliest state based on the number of pageant winners hardly sounds like a per capita thing, not when they are only 15 people in the whole state... |
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Posted by AlM on Sun Jan 30 15:09:53 2011, in response to Re: The United States of Shame, posted by JayMan on Sun Jan 30 14:45:11 2011. And the suburbs. And then there are those who commute from the city (including Manhattan) to elsewhere. |
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Posted by Spider-Pig on Sun Jan 30 15:26:53 2011, in response to Re: The United States of Shame, posted by AlM on Sun Jan 30 15:09:53 2011. And the city and its in-state suburbs constitute the majority of the state's population. |
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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Sun Jan 30 16:55:04 2011, in response to Re: The United States of Shame, posted by orange blossom special on Sun Jan 30 12:14:24 2011. Hey ... things are tough all over. :)
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Posted by JayMan on Mon Jan 31 09:32:14 2011, in response to Re: The United States of Shame - EXPLANATIONS, posted by PHXTUSbusfan on Sat Jan 29 21:28:30 2011. Of course also before my gf sees this and takes exception to Maine's status, check this out:This is a map of poverty per capita by county in America, the redder the poorer:  Maine is the poorest state in the Northeast, and that bright red spot in the southeast is Washington county (where she is from). That, the absence of any real educated enclave (Bangor, Lewiston, and Portland barely qualify) and a culture that de-emphasizes educational achievement might have something to do with the poor SAT scores. |
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Posted by RIPTA42HopeTunnel on Mon Jan 31 21:27:20 2011, in response to Re: The United States of Shame, posted by Fred G on Sat Jan 29 21:19:42 2011. Massachusetts - Worst Drivers!"Route 128 is the only place where I've ever been passed, on the right, by two school buses, each marked as carrying handicapped kids, traveling bumper to bumper, at sixty miles an hour, in the breakdown lane." --Joel Garreau, Edge City |
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Posted by Dan Lawrence on Mon Jan 31 21:27:41 2011, in response to Re: The United States of Shame - EXPLANATIONS, posted by JayMan on Sun Jan 30 14:49:24 2011. Do you mean the ENTIRE population in ND is in the State Government? :-) |
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Posted by Fred G on Tue Feb 1 03:55:57 2011, in response to Re: The United States of Shame, posted by RIPTA42HopeTunnel on Mon Jan 31 21:27:20 2011. It's New England; if it's paved we'll drive on it.your pal, Fred |
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Posted by JayMan on Tue Feb 1 10:13:21 2011, in response to Re: The United States of Shame, posted by RIPTA42HopeTunnel on Mon Jan 31 21:27:20 2011. Isn't driving in the breakdown lane legal in some parts of MA at certain times of the day (or at least I've seen it posted as such on I-495 or abouts there once upon a time)? Nothing saying of the legality of handicapped school buses doing it though... |
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Posted by RIPTA42HopeTunnel on Tue Feb 1 11:02:32 2011, in response to Re: The United States of Shame, posted by JayMan on Tue Feb 1 10:13:21 2011. Isn't driving in the breakdown lane legal in some parts of MA at certain times of the day (or at least I've seen it posted as such on I-495 or abouts there once upon a time)? Nothing saying of the legality of handicapped school buses doing it though...It is legal on parts of Route 3, 128 (I-95), and I-93 from 6-10 a.m. and 3-7 p.m., but you're supposed to go below the speed limit and not use it as a passing lane. It always amazes me when it's 6:57 p.m., traffic in the actual travel lanes is flowing freely, and some idiot flies by in the breakdown lane at 80 like it's some kind of express lane. |
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Posted by RIPTA42HopeTunnel on Tue Feb 1 11:05:04 2011, in response to Re: The United States of Shame, posted by Fred G on Tue Feb 1 03:55:57 2011. It's New England; if it's paved we'll drive on it.And we still call 93 North "128 South." |
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Posted by cortelyounext on Tue Feb 1 11:40:21 2011, in response to The United States of Shame, posted by PHXTUSbusfan on Sat Jan 29 20:58:20 2011. As far as North Dakota, well, the gals are plenty fine. Some junk in the trunk perhaps but there is a lot of Scandinavian blood up there, especially Norwegian, with some Finn and Czech thrown in for good measure. The Lion might be able to confirm or deny this fact but if he denies it he is wrong and cannot be trusted. |
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Posted by SMAZ on Tue Feb 1 11:48:55 2011, in response to Re: The United States of Shame, posted by cortelyounext on Tue Feb 1 11:40:21 2011. The Lion is sworn to a vow of chastity.It's probably why he moved to ND to begin with. Makes things easier. That should be the answer to your question. Minot AFB....B7 bombing... |
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Posted by JayMan on Tue Feb 1 23:15:59 2011, in response to Re: The United States of Shame, posted by RIPTA42HopeTunnel on Tue Feb 1 11:02:32 2011. That's what I thought. Hey gotta love Massholes... |
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Posted by Fred G on Wed Feb 2 05:05:00 2011, in response to Re: The United States of Shame, posted by RIPTA42HopeTunnel on Tue Feb 1 11:05:04 2011. LOL I forgot about that.your pal, Fred |
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