The South is awesome. In your opinion, which Southern state(s) are best? Worst? Why?

Question

Best:
-Alabama & Mississippi: Nice people, wonderful scenery, true Southern culture, laid back-culture
-Georgia: Booming economically, but outside of Atlanta, it has not lost much of its old South charm and flavor
-Tennessee (W. of Knoxville) Nice folks, warm summers but still four distinct seasons, lots of recreational opportunities, music history and heritage
-Texas: It's literally like a whole other country! It's really in a class of its own
-North Carolina: Hey, it deserves an honorable mention! It's pretty!

Worst:
-Kentucky & W. Virginia: Boring places, not a lot for young people, people are very rude overall (especially KY, and Louisville in particular,) east Ky. and W. Va. have a massive drug problem. Honestly, it's an insult to true Southerners to call these states Southern!
-South Carolina: Never met anybody I liked from there.
-Florida: Too many old people who can't drive, a really ugly place when you go in-state and away from the beaches.
-Arkansas: Bill Clinton!

Hey, Oklahoma, Louisiana, and Virginia (at least the South part,) don't think I left yall out on purpose. I haven't made up my mind on those places yet.

NY GIRL: Didn't you read it...I said it's an insult to true Southerners to call WV a Southern state!

Answer 1

I live in Louisville, Kentucky and I love it here. There are a lot of things for young people to do, you just need to know where to look. Louisville is not boring by any means, you just need to look and you would find plenty of things to do. Yes a lot of people are rude, but I have been to TN, AL, GA, and FL and I have come across a lot of rude people. hell rude people are everywhere. don't judge a state by a few things you ran into, not everyone is alike.

Answer 2

Louisiana rocks, home of the blues, New Orleans and the Saints! In NO the bars never close and graveyards are above the ground. Baton Rouge is the home of LSU and a great party town. Natchitoches is the oldest permanent settlement in the Louisiana purchase. What other state could have gone through Katrina? The TX gulf coast around Kemah is also rocking! I also like So. Florida some very great scuba diving down there! Kentucky and Arkansas are just full of rednecks and little more.

Answer 3

I lived on the Gulf coast in both Mississippi and Alabama after I married my ex-husband, and though I think both States have a lot of great people and a lot of beauty, their is just too many prejudice
people there.
I remarried and my husband is in the Navy, and we were stationed in both Norfolk Virginia and Pensacola Florida. I loved Virginia, especially Norfolk and Virginia Beach. Florida was ok, but I was just minutes away from the Alabama State line, so I didn't like that.
My husband is from Tennessee, and we are going to settle either in Knoxville or the Nashville area, depending on what law school he decides on. He offered for us to move back to my home State of Oregon, but I really want o be in Tennessee because I think it is just an incredible place to raise a family.

Answer 4

Grading the States 2005
Compiled by David Pakman


The Government Performance Project conducted a comprehensive study which analyzed and graded the 50 states based on how they administer four areas of governance: (1) Money, (2) people, (3) infrastructure, and (4) information. Here is a table organized by the overall ratings, from highest to lowest, and color coded for red states/blue states.




State Grade
Utah
A-

Virginia
A-

Delaware
B+

Kentucky
B+

Michigan
B+

Minnesota
B+

Washington
B+

Arizona
B

Georgia
B

Iowa
B

Kansas
B

Louisiana
B

Maryland
B

Missouri
B

Nebraska
B

Ohio
B

Pennsylvania
B

South Carolina
B

Texas
B

Vermont
B

Florida
B-

Idaho
B-

Maine
B-

Nevada
B-

New Jersey
B-

New York
B-

North Dakota
B-

South Dakota
B-

Wisconsin
B-

Alaska
C+

Arkansas
C+

Colorado
C+

Connecticut
C+

Illinois
C+

Indiana
C+

Massachusetts
C+

Mississippi
C+

Montana
C+

New Mexico
C+

North Carolina
C+

Oklahoma
C+

Oregon
C+

Rhode Island
C+

Tennessee
C+

West Virginia
C+

Hawaii
C

New Hampshire
C

Wyoming
C

Alabama
C-

California
C-

If we assign each letter a number on a scale similar to a 4.0 GPA scale, we see that the red state average is 2.685, while the blue state average is 2.645. Overall, ratings are almost identical on the whole between red and blue states. Here are descriptions, from the GPP website, outlining the four areas on which states are graded:



Money
How well does the state manage its fiscal resources, including budgeting, forecasting, accounting and financial reporting, procurement, contracting, investments, and debt?



People
How well does the state manage its employees, including implementing an effective and efficient hiring, retention, development, and reward system?



Infrastructure
How well does the state manage its physical infrastructure, including its roads, bridges, buildings, and other resources supported by capital expenditures?



Information
How well do elected leaders and managers use information and technology to measure the effectiveness of services, make decisions, and communicate with citizens?

Answer 5

Isn't Maryland southern or is it considered more eastern? In any case, it's the most beautiful semi-southern state with the politest, kindest, people I've met. No one there ever talked down to me or made me feel like they thought I was ugly or stupid or worthless for saying hi. I drove through it on my way home from PA this summer and stopped at a service center there looking for a place to put air in my tires. Well, I didn't realize you could get the air from the pay vacuum cleaner by their car wash. Anyway, I went in and asked the man and he was so charming, called me sweetheart and darling and was polite as could be while he told me, didn't act like it was a dumb question.

The roadways are well cared for and have flowers in the median instead of just grass or gravel or litter. The people at the parks and in stores are nice and seem either educated or practical, like everything is interesting to them, and they're not rude.

They all had accents of some sort so I assumed they were southern. Hmm.

Answer 6

I like Tennessee. Its got it all. Mountains or flatlands, rural or metro, lots of recreational area, diverse music, nice people, 4 seasons in moderation. I like Nashville and Memphis and the Dale Hollow area. The lakes off of I40 between Nashville and Memphis seem cool too but I haven't had a chance to spend any real time there.
Least fav - Georgia. Atlanta will soon cover the whole northern half of the state. Traffic is terrible. They're building hundreds of cookie cutter shopping centers, same stores repeat themselves about every 20 miles or so. Rape of the South if you ask me. Rural areas are disappearing. They don't have enough water resources. Cost of living is rising too fast.

Answer 7

My favorites: Tennessee (born and raised),Florida, and Georgia
I don't really dislike any of the others...I could find positive things about all of them.

I think you seem to be a little too into the segregation! If you've never met anyone you like from SC, then you probably haven't met that many South Carolinians. Nice people or bad people don't just reside in certain states...it's universal.

Answer 8

I'm a Tennessee girl, born and raised. I'll have to say that Tennessee is my favorite. North Carolina is my least favorite that I've been to. I'm right on the state line and it's like going into a different world.

Answer 9

i am a partial to Louisiana. i live in new Orleans and i absolutely love it. i don't think anywhere else in the world has history and culture like us. we definitely got southern hospitality down. the only bad thing about Louisiana is the drugs and the killings but i think there is a little of that everywhere.

Answer 10

South Dakota, South California.