# More evidence that Oklahoma is the worst place in America **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 14, 2014, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-evidence-that-oklahoma-is-the-worst-place-in-america/686107 "2014-04-14T19:33:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![SlackerInc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slackerinc/32/275_2.png) [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2014, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-evidence-that-oklahoma-is-the-worst-place-in-america/686107/1 "2014-04-14T19:33:53Z")
Put down your [idiotic “SECDEE” signs](http://topekasnews.com/oklahoma-protesters-threaten-secdee-union-neil-degrasse-tysons-cosmos-cancelled/) and go do something useful, like [dig a few fucking basements](http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/22/us/oklahoma-tornado-basements/) already. Jesus fucking Christ. Or you know what, don’t. Just run your own continuous Darwin Awards, in the most tornadic area of the country. And if you seceded, that would be good fucking riddance. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2014, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-evidence-that-oklahoma-is-the-worst-place-in-america/686107/2 "2014-04-14T19:38:33Z")
That’s also where the winds come sweeping down the plains. And make a giant “whooshing” sound. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Miskatonic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.miskatonic/32/310_2.png) [@Mr.Miskatonic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Miskatonic)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2014, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-evidence-that-oklahoma-is-the-worst-place-in-america/686107/3 "2014-04-14T20:21:18Z")
That’s a satire site. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2014, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-evidence-that-oklahoma-is-the-worst-place-in-america/686107/4 "2014-04-14T20:24:47Z")
Come on. We all know its Florida. ---
**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2014, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-evidence-that-oklahoma-is-the-worst-place-in-america/686107/5 "2014-04-14T20:45:19Z")
> [@SlackerInc](#): > > Put down your [idiotic “SECDEE” signs](http://topekasnews.com/oklahoma-protesters-threaten-secdee-union-neil-degrasse-tysons-cosmos-cancelled/) and go do something useful, like [dig a few fucking basements](http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/22/us/oklahoma-tornado-basements/) already. Jesus fucking Christ. > > Or you know what, don’t. Just run your own continuous Darwin Awards, in the most tornadic area of the country. And if you seceded, that would be good fucking riddance. I think you need to check your sources. [TopekaNews.com](http://TopekaNews.com) is not exactly the hotbed of quality news. The article references Saddlebridge, Oklahoma; Saddlebridge Township and Saddleback School District. I cannot find any of these in Oklahoma. I also searched Google for this story elsewhere; and I’m only finding references to it on sources that I would say are questionable at best. Most of them are regurgitating the same crap, of which I believe to be wrong. This forum is to fight ignorance, not promote it. Can you provide any other evidence that this is true? ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2014, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-evidence-that-oklahoma-is-the-worst-place-in-america/686107/6 "2014-04-14T21:08:33Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > Come on. We all know its Florida. Nuh uh. They have Disney World. ---
**Author:** ![Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/budget_player_cadet/32/205_2.png) [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Budget_Player_Cadet)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2014, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-evidence-that-oklahoma-is-the-worst-place-in-america/686107/7 "2014-04-14T21:17:19Z")
Related stories: “Selena Gomez unimpressed by size of Bieber’s ‘Little Bieber’”. …Not quite as good as “Actor/Director spends year working as plumber to prepare for role in upcoming porno”, but definitely up there. ---
**Author:** ![SlackerInc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slackerinc/32/275_2.png) [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2014, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-evidence-that-oklahoma-is-the-worst-place-in-america/686107/8 "2014-04-14T21:21:44Z")
> [@Mr.Miskatonic](#): > > That’s a satire site. Ah, thanks, and sorry for the misinformation. :smack: I will have to tell my FB friend who shared it either similarly credulously, or extremely deadpan. I submit though that this is not a sufficiently extreme exaggeration to be obvious. And the basement thing, which is really more stubbornly obtuse in a way (given the life-and-death implications) is not satire, I am virtually certain. So I’m going to stick with my “worst” designation, given that it is ugly, far from anything/everything at all cool, and stolen from Native Americans after they had previously been kicked out of more desirable territories. (To be fair, I live in Missouri, a state that is rapidly heading in a shitty direction and seemingly doing its utmost in recent years to compete with places like OK for general awfulness; but we’re still not quite that bad.) ---
**Author:** ![nevadaexile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb8c5e/32.png) [@nevadaexile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nevadaexile)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2014, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-evidence-that-oklahoma-is-the-worst-place-in-america/686107/9 "2014-04-15T01:07:54Z")
Oklahoma just seems to be…bland …to me. Not good. Not overly terrible. Just a bland state with little to do and a lot of land not to do it on. Now North Dakota… Dante would have called that wasteland the Fifth Circle of Hell. ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2014, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-evidence-that-oklahoma-is-the-worst-place-in-america/686107/10 "2014-04-15T01:17:11Z")
> [@nevadaexile](#): > > Oklahoma just seems to be…bland …to me. > Not good. > Not overly terrible. > Just a bland state with little to do and a lot of land not to do it on. > > Now North Dakota… > Dante would have called that wasteland the Fifth Circle of Hell. Hell I didn’t know “Nebraska” was a real place until Bruce Springsteen made the album (and I frankly still have doubts). ---
**Author:** ![mage-girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cc9497/32.png) [@mage-girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mage-girl)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2014, 9:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-evidence-that-oklahoma-is-the-worst-place-in-america/686107/11 "2014-04-15T09:44:37Z")
Hey! Nebraska is a real place. I live there. 😛 It’s kind of mediocre actually. But my friends and family are here, so where else am I going to go? Contrary to what you see on TV and in movies, only 1/3 of the people in Nebraska live in rural counties. The other 2/3 are in urban areas like Lincoln and Omaha. The country/farmer lifestyle is a big thing, though, no matter where you are. Friend of mine in college wore a cowboy hat, cowboy boots, and a bolo tie to classes. A frickin’ bolo tie. Lord. I know, no one cares. 😃