re: Best and worst southern states

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It is absolutely maddening

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Yep. It's pretty simple. What are growing states doing differently than us? Nah, frick Dem. Boudin bitches

Texas is the south? I don't consider WV the south unless you get close to the southern border. Being from WV we are called Yankees by Virginian's.

It is difficult to compare entire states, b/c they are so large and diverse. There are good and bad in all states, and there are parts of the one I ranked "worst" (Miss) that are better than parts of the one I think is "best". But taking everything into consideration, I would say:

Best:
1. North Carolina: Natural beauty of great beaches and mountains. Great economy. Great universities. Solid cities, both large (Charlotte and Raleigh) and small (Wilmington & Asheville).
2. Georgia: Also has a good combo of mountains and coast. Savannah is a gem, and Atlanta is a great economic engine. Points for the Masters.
3: South Carolina: great beaches/coast and Charleston and Greenville are nice.
4. Tennessee: Nashville is great. Some nice mountains. Lack of coast keeps it out of the top 3 for me.


Worst:
Mississippi: It has nice parts like the coast, but in general it is behind the other southern states IMO. Lags in terms of economy and education and lacks a great city.

I dont' really consider WV to be southern. If it counted, it would probably be the worst.

I don’t know a single person who thinks of Oklahoma as a southern state.

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I think they're coming to Atlanta for something else

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Not really, although obviously they make more out of it than those things.

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Texas

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Isn’t southern

I don’t know why anyone in Louisiana feels any kind of superiority over anything in Mississippi, other than LSU sports. I used to feel that way myself.

My wife and I grew up in Louisiana, met at LSU, loved it. We were living in Prairieville 15 years ago when I was recruited to a job up here, at first I said hell no, I ain’t going to no damn Mississippi, but after we visited we were all in.

GREAT place to live. Great people, homes and land affordable, the women, beautiful scenery, the women, the women, quality of life (traffic, weather, crime, etc) all far, far superior to anything in Louisiana. There is even a pretty health community of LSU fans in the area, it is fun.

Yes, we have a shithole major city; Louisiana sees our shithole with New orleans and raises with Baton Rouge. When I left BR it was taking me nearly an hour to get home from OLOL to Prairieville. I have probably been to my last game in Tiger Stadium (the A&M beatdown), coming back to Baton Rouge just sucks so bad now.

If you run Mississippi down and have never been up here, do us a favor and DON’T VISIT!

Schools are very good up here, with great private options. Memphis and Birmingham within easy drive, you can have the big city highlights without having to live in the shithole.

We love Louisiana and LSU, we have a lot of family there, but we ain’t never going back. We were talking recently about this, there is NOWHERE in Louisiana that we would leave here for.

Make fun of Mississippi all you want!

Alabama exactly where I suspected, not the best and not the worst.

Best:

North Carolina - Even as a Tennesseean, I'll admit that its the best state. North Carolina's mountains and mountain towns are the best in the South. They've got nice beaches and great cities, big and small (Charlotte, Research Triangle, Asheville, Outer Banks, Boone, Pinehurst, Cashiers, Blowing Rock). Top to bottom, the universities are great (Duke, North Carolina, Davidson, Wake Forest, Elon, NC State, etc.) North Carolina is a progressive and forward-thinking state, yet, they are still moderate and very conservationist focused.

Worst:

Mississippi. Not a knock as I like visiting Oxford and Natchez, the Mississippi coast has charm, I love blues music, and they have great "home cooking," but it seems like Mississippians are content with their current conditions. They have sort of a "well...this is it" attitude.

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Mississippi's primary job/economic engine is probably a 4th rate dump of a city in another state.

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Memphis?