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nominate the dumbest state.

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ChOdaZ

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Posted: Feb. 1, 2012 - 3:20 PM ET #26

Quote Originally Posted by Frnke4Finger:

Illinois...no one there knows how to drive.

If you remove the chicagoland areas from Illinois you are left with a hillbilly, redneck, inbred, shithole. Just look at all the stories from central Illinois where parents chain there kids up outside and run mobile meth labs out of a semi.

mainmanmainman2

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Posted: Feb. 1, 2012 - 3:21 PM ET #27

ok heres the updated list

1)mississippi

2) alabama

3) Louisiana

4) Oklahoma

tie for 5th: nevada/california/florida/michigan

11 people just lost their lives driving too fast in florida when driving conditions were awful.

kickinA

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Posted: Feb. 1, 2012 - 10:57 PM ET #28

Quote Originally Posted by ChOdaZ:

Greyhound concurs with this post.

SALTY

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Posted: Feb. 1, 2012 - 11:06 PM ET #29

Tie.....

Mississippi and Oklahoma.

The Hawk

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Posted: Feb. 1, 2012 - 11:12 PM ET #30

The only reason The Terminator got elected was because Gray Davis was such a putz...................but we're still pretty stupid

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Posted: Feb. 1, 2012 - 11:24 PM ET #31

Washington DC.

Kurshka

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Posted: Feb. 1, 2012 - 11:28 PM ET #32

Quote Originally Posted by The Hawk:

The only reason The Terminator got elected was because Gray Davis was such a putz...................but we're still pretty stupid

Grey Davis was driving east on I-80 and newscaster Betty Vasquez was giving him a blow job. Grey was plastered and hit the cement wall on a underpass. CHP showed up and had no choice to give him a DUI.

Colts03

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Posted: Feb. 1, 2012 - 11:39 PM ET #33

probably some state like montana, or north dakota

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Posted: Feb. 1, 2012 - 11:48 PM ET #34

Oklahoma is pretty bad...its ALL hillbillies and a few Native Americans here and there...that is is it. That stuck sucks other than the gambling...

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Posted: Feb. 1, 2012 - 11:48 PM ET #35

I think the Dust Bowl had something to do with it...

kickinA

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Posted: Feb. 2, 2012 - 1:42 AM ET #36

Quote Originally Posted by Kurshka:

Grey Davis was driving east on I-80 and newscaster Betty Vasquez was giving him a blow job. Grey was plastered and hit the cement wall on a underpass. CHP showed up and had no choice to give him a DUI.

One would think he can do better than that, say Deirdre Fitzpatrick?

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Posted: Feb. 2, 2012 - 6:27 AM ET #37

mexico

eliminat0r85

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Posted: Feb. 2, 2012 - 6:47 AM ET #38

I would say michigan but then again theres actually plenty of areas where the graduation rate is very good. Just you know the one are where the graduation rate is 1% makes us all look really really bad!!

Ahhhh good ol' detroit gotta love it. Can't really blame them though thats how they were born and raised and most don't have the necessary help to be able to graduate, some just like the easy money.

ChOdaZ

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Posted: Feb. 2, 2012 - 12:02 PM ET #39

Quote Originally Posted by kickinA:

Greyhound concurs with this post.

I just found out today I have to do overnights to several cities in central IL!

mainmanmainman2

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Posted: Feb. 2, 2012 - 12:50 PM ET #40

F L O R I D A ! ! ! !

https://www.miamiherald.com/2011/11/02/2484605/miami-police-reckless-driving.html

and of course

casey anthony... i rest my case!

standuley

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Posted: Feb. 2, 2012 - 1:24 PM ET #41

Quote Originally Posted by MWC:

Ok, so where are you from? What state?

I'm not giving you a hard time, as it was like that where I grew up (western PA). Everyone definitely graduated, and most everyone went to college.

And where I live now is one of those places with the 50% high school graduation rate, Las Vegas, NV. My jaw hit the floor when I learned this. I didn't think that was possible in this day and age. But living here 5 years or so, I can see it. Trying to have a conversation with someone actually from here is painful at times. Luckily, most people aren't from here!!

So, my vote is Nevada. But I have a friend who travels freaking everywhere for work, and he's told me that Oklahoma is the worst.

whered u grow up at

Slobbasaurus

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Posted: Feb. 2, 2012 - 1:52 PM ET #42

Quote Originally Posted by JD232:

How do you figure?

No offense buddy. I worked in customer service when I was in college, and it seemed that more pushovers were from Southern states.

To say that everyone from the South is a pushover would be ignorant.

bookieassassin

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Posted: Feb. 2, 2012 - 6:38 PM ET #43

rankings by high school diploma...or GED
    *bottom 10 or so >

= 40        Georgia:   81 %
= 40        North Carolina:   81 %
# 42        Tennessee:   80.7 %
# 43        California:   80.4 %
# 44        New Mexico:   80.3 %
# 45        Arkansas:   80.2 %
# 46        Louisiana:   79.9 %
# 47        Alabama:   79.5 %
# 48        West Virginia:   79.4 %
# 49        Texas:   78.7 %
# 50        Kentucky:   77.6 %
# 51        Mississippi:   77.3 %

cross reference with the most fat-asses....
    *ranked by % obese.....

1   Mississippi   34.5
2   Alabama   33.0
3   West Virginia   32.9
4   Tennessee   31.7
5   Kentucky   31.8
5   Louisiana   31.7
7   Oklahoma   31.3
8   South Carolina   32.0
9   Arkansas   30.9
10   Michigan   31.7
11   Missouri   31.4
12   Texas   31.7
13   Ohio   29.7

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Laroja

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Posted: Feb. 2, 2012 - 6:42 PM ET #44

Miss and Alabama

VandalRevival

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Posted: Feb. 2, 2012 - 7:27 PM ET #45

How is Wisconsin not in the top 13 of obese states

Dumb state by literacy, the 2nd post gave your answer

Dumb state by simple shithole landscape, entertainment, and its contribution to the advancement of US is NEW MEXICO

ChOdaZ

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Posted: Feb. 2, 2012 - 7:40 PM ET #46

Quote Originally Posted by VandalRevival:

How is Wisconsin not in the top 13 of obese states

Dumb state by literacy, the 2nd post gave your answer

Dumb state by simple shithole landscape, entertainment, and its contribution to the advancement of US is NEW MEXICO

they still can be and probably are. but when cross referenced with a retard factor the south wins again.

LeRinkRat

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Posted: Feb. 2, 2012 - 7:56 PM ET #47

Quote Originally Posted by MWC:

Ok, so where are you from? What state?

I'm not giving you a hard time, as it was like that where I grew up (western PA). Everyone definitely graduated, and most everyone went to college.

And where I live now is one of those places with the 50% high school graduation rate, Las Vegas, NV. My jaw hit the floor when I learned this. I didn't think that was possible in this day and age. But living here 5 years or so, I can see it. Trying to have a conversation with someone actually from here is painful at times. Luckily, most people aren't from here!!

So, my vote is Nevada. But I have a friend who travels freaking everywhere for work, and he's told me that Oklahoma is the worst.

even when we had a "go-go" economy a few years back, I used to warn people with kids thinking of moving the Las Vegas that our public school system SUCKED. this is a town for singles of all ages and retirees with grown childern. IF you have school aged childern, be prepared to pay for a private school.

that being said, I would still pick most of the "Old South" states ahead of Nevada ex for the Arlington area of Virginia and the NASA area of Texas south east of Houston. when I lived in the NASA area back in the 1980's, the Clear Lake and Clear Creek school districts had some of the best science programs in the country. BUT that was BEFORE George W Bush and Rick Perry SO it may have changed.