re: For the second year in a row, U.S. News ranks Louisiana as the nation’s worst state

I don't know why people here immediately dismiss the living conditions in northern states as cold, icy and uninhabitable.
There are three months, maybe a little more when it s very cold up there . The other nine months are really nice.
We have three plus months when it is so hot and humid down here that it is nearly uninhabitable.
To each his own, but in my experience, we do not live in a weather paradise and that's without considering the hurricanes, tornados, thunderstorms, ice storms and searing heat that offset the blizzards and cold up there, in my view.