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Lets vote out a state (1 Viewer)

You're the worst

  • Texas

    Votes: 24 11.6%

  • California

    Votes: 58 28.0%

  • Florida

    Votes: 37 17.9%

  • North Carolina

    Votes: 2 1.0%

  • Illinois

    Votes: 9 4.3%

  • New Jersey

    Votes: 24 11.6%

  • New York

    Votes: 6 2.9%

  • Michigan

    Votes: 2 1.0%

  • Ohio

    Votes: 13 6.3%

  • Colorado

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Other

    Votes: 32 15.5%
  • Total voters
    207
Max Power

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Who are you choosing?  I put the top offenders in the poll.  We need to #MAGA.  lets start by kicking some crap to the curb. 

 
New Jersey. What a #### hole. We could dump them and the country wouldn't miss a beat. They have nothing anyone would want.

We could easily build a wall around it.

 
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California of course.  Massive debt and they have no water.  It would be Saudi Arabia, minus the oil, if not for the Colorado river.  I'd miss In and Out though.

 
Surprised to not see Alabama on the list. 

Surprised to see NC on the list.  The mountains, the coast and the military make it a pretty nice state, even if I hate their basketball teams. 

Gotta vote NJ, or at least deport their people. 

 
Delaware is about as worthless a plot of land as exists. It's where retired people from Philly go to die. You know those "Attractions At Next Exit" signs? All are blank in DE. Maryland should have annexed that wind-blown sand dune 200 years ago. 

 
Uruk-Hai said:
Delaware is about as worthless a plot of land as exists. It's where retired people from Philly go to die. You know those "Attractions At Next Exit" signs? All are blank in DE. Maryland should have annexed that wind-blown sand dune 200 years ago. 
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As long as they have no sales tax they can stay.

i vote one of the Dakotas.  Didn't matter which before but ND gave us Carson Wentz so I'll vote for South Dakota.  All they got going on is Mount Rushmore which I'm sure Trump will want to change in three years anyway.

 
Ted Lange as your Bartender said:
As long as they have no sales tax they can stay.
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Having no sales tax is the only way they could rook people from Philly and south Jersey into thinking that it's a good place to retire to. It's not. Those people are too stupid to go somewhere warm to live out the rest of their pathetic lives. Good Lord, even people from friggin' Maryland (in the running for "most delusional state in the Union") wrinkle their noses at Delaware and go to Florida to die. It's not even WARM in DE!

 
AAABatteries said:
How is Mississippi not on this list?
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From an analysis of the states that are the least dependent and most dependent on the federal government, Mississippi is the second most dependent.

http://www.businessinsider.com/the-states-the-most-and-least-dependent-on-the-federal-government-2015-7 

The methodology:

The website considered each state based on four metrics: its citizens return on taxes paid to the federal government, the percentage of state revenue from federal funding, the number of federal employees per 1000 residents, and the number of civilian non-defense federal employees per 1000 residents.

Mississippi's entry for the second most dependent state on the federal government:

2. Mississippi 

In Mississippi, citizens receive $2.34 in return for every dollar paid in federal income tax, which ranks fourth highest in America. A whopping 43.68% of Mississippi's state revenue is comprised of federal funding, the highest such rate in the country. There are 10.61 federal employees for every 1000 Mississippi residents, which ranks 32nd in the country, as well as 3.42 non-defense federal employees per 1000 residents, which ranks 24th lowest in the country.

Mississippi would have been number one over New Mexico, which won the title, but for the fact that it had fewer federal employees per capita than New Mexico. That's actually a plus for me in terms of booting out a state - fewer per capita losses from the military and other key national government functions. (By the way,  New Jersey ranks as the least dependent state on the federal government on these criteria.)

Mississippi has the highest poverty rate (New Mexico is second).  

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_poverty_rate 

The United Health Foundation ranks Mississippi 49th out of 50 in health ratings (Louisiana is number 50).

http://www.americashealthrankings.org/explore/2015-annual-report/measure/Overall/state/MS 

Mississippi is dead last in terms of the percentage of a state's population that has completed high school or equivalency.  

http://www.statemaster.com/graph/edu_per_of_peo_who_hav_com_hig_sch_inc_equ-completed-high-school-including-equivalency 

And Mississippi is dead last in both median household income and per capita income.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_income 

I've spent some time in Jackson, Mississippi's capital and largest city, and it pretty much blows as a major U.S. city in terms of economy, culture, food, racial and ethnic diversity (beyond just two categories), growth, etc.

And while there are some beautiful parts of the state, and a small sliver of coastline, there is little that is unique to the state that cannot be found in surrounding areas. 

Mississippi has zero teams in the four major professional sports, and Ole Miss and Mississippi State are tied for last in the SEC West for college football.

If a state has to go, it's Mississippi.

 
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Anybody know if Cher and her ilk have rocketed to Jupiter yet?

I'd vote California, but told gr00vus I would hold off if the anti-Trump celebs left the state.

 
Getting rid of South Carolina makes more sense than North Carolina.   Newark alone is probably reason enough to get rid of Jersey.  You could probably make a similar case for Gary, although Newark represent much more of Jersey than Gary does Indiana.  

 
NC is the home of bathroom discrimination.  We're considered very intolerant here.  The "bathroom bill" has cost the state billions in revenue.  I'm afraid of what this tax season holds for us.  We have potential, but we elect #######s. 

 
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Quite possibly the only two states I have not set foot in.  But I probably will see Rushmore at some point.  
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South Dakota actually has some cool stuff I remember seeing as a kid: Badlands, Custer's last stand, Wall Drug, Deadwood.

Sorry ND you're out.

 
The General said:
Load up the car kids. Ahhhh, the sights and smells of the hydraulic fracking machines by moonlight. 
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You're going to boot access to one of the largest oil production plays in the past 50 years? Natural resources matter in this discussion. North Dakota is second only to Texas in production. If we want to be energy independent, Texas and North Dakota need to be keepers. 

 
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Voting my home state of VT. We'd happily secede to become Canada's Florida.

ETA: And we need that Trumpugee $$$$. The gay foliage dollar is too seasonal to sustain us.

 
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bigbottom said:
You're going to boot access to one of the largest oil production plays in the past 50 years? Natural resources matter in this discussion. North Dakota is second only to Texas in production. If we want to be energy independent, Texas and North Dakota need to be keepers. 
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We'll hand that off to Canada then annex them later.

 
WhatDoIKnow said:
There have been groups over the years that have wanted western Nebraska split off into their own state.  They could join up with eastern Colorado.
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Add western Kansas and you're on to something. 

Max Power said:
NC is the home of bathroom discrimination.  We're considered very intolerant here.  The "bathroom bill" has cost the state billions in revenue.  I'm afraid of what this tax season holds for us.  We have potential, but we elect #######s. 
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Lovely state, ####ty politicians. 

bicycle_seat_sniffer said:
I vote for "the south"  and they can take Texas and Oklahoma with them
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They (we?) Tried that already. 

 
I'd be open to Florida on its own merits, but seems too important due its geographical position relative to the Caribbean.

 Delaware seems pretty good.  Nothing but bankruptcy attorneys and old cover bands. 

 
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