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I think North Carolina is closer to having an average economy than a good economy. The state's unemployment rate is 6.4% to the nation's 6.3% and the state's labor force participation rate is 61.3% to the nation's 62.8%.
By contrast, Illinois' unemployment rate is 7.5% but its labor force participation rate is an above average 65.1%.
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Originally Posted by Dawn.Davenport
West Virginia (mountainous, rural, little formal education, lots of conservative Democrats) and New Jersey (flat, suburban, many are college-educated, a lot of liberal Republicans)
Illinois (crappy economy, few transplants, boring topography, cold, center-left politics with a history of far-left US Senators) and North Carolina (good economy, many transplants, diverse geography, hot, center-right politics with a history of far-right US Senators).
Illinois also has a lot of transplants (nearly double the % of foreign born population of NC as of the 2010 census) and isn't "cold" throughout a large portion of the year, especially southern Illinois, which is at a latitude lower than parts of KY, VA, WV and all of MD.
When will people stop talking negatively on Mississippi 😔. I think Current day Arizona is more in line with your imagery of Mississippi then what Mississippi actually does anymore.
When will people stop talking negatively on Mississippi 😔. I think Current day Arizona is more in line with your imagery of Mississippi then what Mississippi actually does anymore.
Mississippi is far from perfect and often looks bad on paper (especially to isolated eggheads reading about it from afar and basing opinions on all that), BUT it isn't nearly as bad as some of these people think.
A lot of ignorance based on antiquated stereotypes still exists.
It is an American state, which means it is better off than a huge chunk of the world.
It wouldn't be my first choice, but I'd take Mississippi over most east coast states, except for northern New England perhaps.
Mississippi is far from perfect and often looks bad on paper (especially to isolated eggheads reading about it from afar and basing opinions on all that), BUT it isn't nearly as bad as some of these people think.
A lot of ignorance based on antiquated stereotypes still exists.
It is an American state, which means it is better off than a huge chunk of the world.
It wouldn't be my first choice, but I'd take Mississippi over most east coast states, except for northern New England perhaps.
Mississippi gets unfairly picked on because it's at (or at least near) the bottom of most statistical categories measuring a state's well-being such as income, education, health, etc. (Yes, there are plenty of healthy, industrious, tolerant and educated folks living in MS but they don't brag about it).
As the old saying goes, one man's trash is another man's treasure. MS has something many, many other states don't have, and that's character. It has one of the most interesting histories of any state (some good, some bad. And IMHO its history and contributions blow my current state of residence, Alabama's, out of the water) and anyone who has done the slightest amount of research on the state can attest to that.
Mississippi gets unfairly picked on because it's at (or at least near) the bottom of most statistical categories measuring a state's well-being such as income, education, health, etc. (Yes, there are plenty of healthy, industrious, tolerant and educated folks living in MS but they don't brag about it).
As the old saying goes, one man's trash is another man's treasure. MS has something many, many other states don't have, and that's character. It has one of the most interesting histories of any state (some good, some bad. And IMHO its history and contributions blow my current state of residence, Alabama's, out of the water) and anyone who has done the slightest amount of research on the state can attest to that.
Mississippi's overtly Evangelical nature, coupled with it's stubborn social backwardness isn't a character I would want to be associated with.
Mississippi's overtly Evangelical nature, coupled with it's stubborn social backwardness isn't a character I would want to be associated with.
You could find a wealthy interracial atheist gay liberal couple living in Jackson, Mississippi just as easily as you could find a poor overtly religious bigoted overweight conservative family in Philadelphia
You could find a wealthy interracial atheist gay liberal couple living in Jackson, Mississippi just as easily as you could find a poor overtly religious bigoted overweight conservative family in Philadelphia
Of course you could. But if I was looking for poor, overly religious, bigoted fat people, Mississippi would be one of the first places I'd think to look, not Philadelphia. But certainly not Jackson either.
New Jersey being listed as opposite of West Virginia is a bit funny to me because of how many Jersey kids go to WVU. Good comparison though, especially with the Blue Dog Dems in WV vs the Rockefeller Repubs parallel.
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