# What people are thankful for in every state **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 28, 2014, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-people-are-thankful-for-in-every-state/705856 "2014-11-28T23:12:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Silophant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a698b9/32.png) [@Silophant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silophant)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2014, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-people-are-thankful-for-in-every-state/705856/21 "2014-12-03T02:01:36Z")
> [@Whatever4](#): > > Yeppers. Especially those of us in rural areas with lots of trees. I swear our part of the grid hasn’t been updated since Edison. It very well might not have been. Medium voltage distribution lines last a long long with no maintenance beyond an occasional rotting pole replacement, and when it comes time to make reliability upgrades, there are few things higher on the cost per customer served chart than a several-mile long, possibly difficult to access line with only a couple houses on it. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2014, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-people-are-thankful-for-in-every-state/705856/22 "2014-12-03T02:31:14Z")
In Michigan, we’re thankful that we’re not in Minnesota. \<_shrug_\> ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2014, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-people-are-thankful-for-in-every-state/705856/23 "2014-12-03T03:21:39Z")
> [@purplehorseshoe](#): > > \ I love that you have to do away with a major source of law enforcement work in order to get law enforcement money. 😃 \ Ha ha, me too. I also love that some states said “childrens’ laughter.” The sound of my son’s baby laughter is probably the most delightful thing I have ever heard. Dang, wish I had a recording of it. ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2014, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-people-are-thankful-for-in-every-state/705856/24 "2014-12-04T21:09:24Z")
> [@Count\_Dracula](#): > > I’m thankful that 95% of the Democrats in Illinois live in the Chicagoland area and not in the rural areas of the State. Makes the air smell better out in the country. Don’t make posts like this, it can be taken as trolling. ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2014, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-people-are-thankful-for-in-every-state/705856/25 "2014-12-04T22:54:15Z")
Louisiana (and Hawaiin I suppose) is **fabulous**! And now I think of the famously cold Seattlites as robots going around telling everyone that they enjoy the “typical hyoo-mon activities.” Also, MN vs. CT - WASP stereotypes aside, do Connecticuters really prefer autumn over fall? > [@Chronos](#): > > New York City is representative of the entire state, since the city itself, even before counting in all the suburbs and exurbs, is nearly half of the state’s entire population. And 69% of NV is in one county or 86% in two, but in both those places country music is disliked by a good part of the population. Same with PA I’ll guess. WY is at least rural if not Southern. > [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Keep in mind surveys like this are reporting the most disproportionate responses not the most popular responses. So the most popular responses in every state would be things like “my family” and “good health”. But if rainbows was the 50th most popular choice in Hawaii while it was the 100th choice in every other state, it makes this survey. Quoting this for emphasis. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-people-are-thankful-for-in-every-state/705856.md?page=1)