As a South Carolinian, let me confirm that we do not deserve a positive rating. I love my state, but its government is run by rich idiots.
To be clear, that is still less than 50% approval rating. The only state apparently to get over 50% is Hawaii and not by much.
Every state is positive! score is favourable - unfavourable. Hawaii would have been 76.5 vs 23.5.
Oh you're right! My bad I didn't read the fine print.
Lol, give me a break and show me the data sources.
I’m surprised that people are surprised by this.
West Virginia somehow scores higher than california?? Has anyone actually been to west virginia?
I'm guessing the survey responder pool was "whoever is at this Midwest bingo hall at 2pm on a Tuesday."
Oklahoma has way better meth labs than California 👍
Yeah, this seems wrong. Tennessee definitely isn't that good.
It must be because of the smoky mountains.... only thing cool about this place.
That's a wild score for Florida. Do people just like Walt Disney World that much?
How in the hell does Oregon and Washington get mid like that? What'd we ever do to you but enjoy our trees and rain?
How do you like a big dumb desert and deserts little cousin more than us???
I think people just don't know much about the PNW. Seattle produced some rock bands and companies in the '90s and Portland got a TV show that ended years ago, but that's about it. We just don't make much noise right now.
They both had a ton of popular bands and companies.
I think the rating might be a easily of national politics.
This is actually one of the best maps on here in a while. If you know the US discourse, you can clearly read the stereotypes, political bubbles and straight-up ignorance of the various different people that were surveyed.
Illinois gets dinged because of racist narrative around Chicago. Montana does better than the rest of the midwest because it's romaticised. The people who hate California are a different bunch than the ones who hate Illinois or, for the most part, Alabama. NJ is mainly known from jokes at their expense by media-powerhouse New York. Few people know enough about South Dakota to care. DC just absorbs opinions of the feds.
I don't get the love-on for North Carolina and Pennsylvania, I guess.
I *don't* get the love-on for North Carolina and Pennsylvania, I guess.
Not sure about Pennsylvania, but I think North Carolina is rated so favorably because conservatives like it because it's part of the South, and liberals like it because it sucks less than most of the rest of the South due to the Research Triangle. (Georgia gets a similar boost because of Atlanta, but lesser because it gets extra hate from conservatives because of civil rights / Black culture.)
Montana does better than the rest of the midwest because it's romaticised.
So, folks, are we just gonna gloss over this guy calling Montana "Midwest?"
Midwest, at least culturally, can spread from the slopes of the Rockies to the slopes of Appalachia.
I am of the strong opinion that Aurora is Midwest and Denver is west.
Yeah, that's what I thought. Although I did know there's a great deal of controversy over how far east if goes, and people laugh at New Yorkers for thinking of Cleveland as basically the same as Kansas.
In Canada, the Prairies go from the Rockies to the Shield region where things get stony and boggy. And extend north until it's too forested for the descriptor to apply, maybe a quarter of the way to the Arctic coast on average (so it's mostly taiga nd tundra with just a little bit of farmable area).
People like the outer banks and It's Always Sunny. Midwesterners also HATE Chicago/Illinois since that's the biggest city in the area.
My biggest ahock is that Texas polls so high. Most people who don't live there absolutely despise Texas in my experience.
I don't believe this at all. Who did they ask?
clearly not me, I couldn't get out of N Carolina fast enough
As a lifelong southerner, NC is my favorite southern state. I've lived in SC, FL, NC, VA, TN. I absolutely love Asheville. Granted, I lived there as a youngin, and have only visited Asheville and a few other places as an adult. But my God don't I love Asheville.
Asheville is basically anti NC. I agree that mountain hippies are great, but as you move east you go from fucked up tobacco shit, to Fuck Duke, to fucked up military industrial complex, to tourist hellscape. Charlotte is ok, but it's like if you took a real city and made it optimized for 7' tall pickup trucks.
The collective South Loud enough for the people in the back, y'all: Thank GOD for Mississippi!
As a Californian, you're all just jealous. I will sit atop my pile of avocados and wildfires and functional economy.
Finally a map that isn't just a population distribution.
I'm surprised Jersey is rated so low relative to Texas having lived in both states.
Georgia deserves its score. Georgia is great aside from the Atlanta traffic design.
For the map enthused!
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