Best/worst regions of the US.

[Urbanredneck]

@senoy

I will clarify my position that I believe you (and not just you, but people as a whole) are choosing to object or support a very small subset of laws based on social utility and the laws you are picking are ways to demonstrate your social class rather than really caring about the impact of a complete body of laws. The issue is not that Kansas teaches intelligent design and this somehow makes the schools inferior, after all, Kansas schools rank fairly highly in test scores and US rankings, higher than either New York or California, so its policies do not seem to be impacting the quality of education. Rather, the objection is that Kansas by doing this is signaling that it is a ‘class’ (where we mean group, not economic class) of people that is perhaps more religious and you object to that class of people. Your objection is to a type of person and not a particular law.

What gets me about this is I live in Kansas and I know many people who have moved here from places like California or New York.

NONE of them has ever said they did it because of politics. It is almost always employment based. A job opens up here and they take it. The lower cost of living (ex. they can finally own a house) and the quality of life here keep them.