Posted on 04/24/2014 5:03:57 PM PDT by The Old Hoosier
Gallup has just released a poll of how each of the 50 states’ residents feel about their respective places to live. Their survey asked residents of all 50 states whether they thought their home state was “the best possible state to live in,” “one of the best possible,” or the “worst possible.”
Twenty-five percent of Illinoisans believe their state is the worst, making Illinois number one in thoroughly dissatisfied residents. Dishonorable Mention in this category goes to Rhode Island and Connecticut (tied in second place at 17 percent each), followed by Mississippi (15 percent), Louisiana (13 percent), New York (12 percent), New Jersey (10 percent), and Michigan (9 percent).
Perhaps not surprisingly, Texans (28 percent) are most likely to say their state is best — but Montanans and Alaskans are more likely to say either that they live in either “the best” or “one of the best” states.
Surely, there are political implications, but there are obviously non-political things about each state that make them more or less attractive to residents. Click here for the full list and here for the explanation of the survey.
Illinois gets voted the worst. Suppose this has anything to do with Democrat “leadership”?
Well that answers my question.
On a positive note, apparently 25% of the people in Illinois are normal.
I bet you it's the Downstaters tired of being a part of a state controlled by Chicago.
Watch the downstate empty out.
For example see empty Upstate New York.
Not only are the socialist moonbats dumb enough to crap where they eat, they shout from the rooftops how crappy the crap tastes.
Hello you morons. Suck rope, the one you tied into a noose for yourselves.
I live in Illinois. No doubt, we have some serious problems here, but 95% of those problems come out of Chicago and Cook County, but unfortunately they affect the entire state.
There are some very good people here; there are some very good towns and some very good counties here. Excise Cook County from Illinois and the state is a damn fine place to be (well, we do have some problems with the weather).
And they would be right for once.
Population density has a lot to do with it, IMO.
RI is definitely one of the worst states I have ever visited. Alaska, so far, the best (Too hot in TX)
I lived in Illinois for 56 years, until last November. My ancestors helped settle Randolph County nearly 200 years ago. I have been proud to be from Illinois up until about the last decade. So Illinois, more than anyplace else can be, was home to me, and that sentimentality made me somewhat sad to leave. But Chicago gave us no good options for high school for my son. (Our neighborhood high school is among the worst in the country, and I wasn’t going to put my son on the CTA to go up to the north side.) I got tired of paying through the nose on everything. I had had enough of the absolutely, hopelessly corrupt political system and gangster politicians — and ignorant electorate— — that have, more than anything else, contributed to the ruination of the state. So we moved, not too far away, but to a place that is significantly different — and I am a New Hoosier.
Well, Ill-i-noise just got discreet carry of firearms. I doubt, though, that that will turn the tide. But it does make it marginally less sucky.
Was the question: 'How is Governor Malloy of CT and Governor Chaffee doing in their state?'
Or was it: 'How are Liberals and RINOs doing in CT and RI?'
The question was: Isn’t RI likely the worst state?
Cold weather, permanent Democratic government, and high taxes yep it sucks here. Wish I was born down south, if it wasn’t for the future Ms. Erod and her family being in this state I would be moving down to Texas.
Keep voting Democrat.....
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