# What’s Your State (U.S.) Good At? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 30, 2010, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-your-state-u-s-good-at/565779 "2010-12-30T01:44:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![carnut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnut/32/3531_2.png) [@carnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnut)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2011, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-your-state-u-s-good-at/565779/41 "2011-01-01T21:34:54Z")
> [@Eggerhaus](#): > > I grew up in way northeastern Minnesota where it’s cold as hell 9 months of the year. All I learned there wa that Canadian girls kick ass. 🙂 … “Minnesota: Forty below (-40) keeps the riff-raff out.” ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2011, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-your-state-u-s-good-at/565779/42 "2011-01-02T00:06:10Z")
> [@ralph124c](#): > > Massachusetts calling-we excel at political corruption. Three speakers of the House of Representatives indicted (in a row),two convicted. Public buildings fall apart in 25-30 years (too much graft); lots of ex-politicians in jail or under indictment. Corrupt judges, corrupt state employees-if you love corruption, MA is the place for you! How good can your political corruption be if you’re indicting and convicting crooked politicians? Real political corruption is when you re-elect them. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2011, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-your-state-u-s-good-at/565779/43 "2011-01-02T01:54:56Z")
We’re really good at falling for Phony R.O. to elect Idiots who think the best way to handle running the state is to chow down on cotton candy at Disney World. And when called on it, we’re also really good at not to shipping Governor JoJo’s ass back home to earn his pay, but sensitively defending how he earned his vacation. :rolleyes: Bring back Governor Cody: Competence is Addictive. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2011, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-your-state-u-s-good-at/565779/44 "2011-01-02T14:08:47Z")
Tennessee is good at corruption. Pew thinktank rated us as the most corrupt state in the US. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2011, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-your-state-u-s-good-at/565779/45 "2011-01-02T14:23:10Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > We have the most golf courses. Who knew. > > Michigan We do? Really? I thought we had the most potholes, fudge, beer and flannel. ---
**Author:** ![GESancMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gesancman/32/2923_2.png) [@GESancMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GESancMan)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2011, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-your-state-u-s-good-at/565779/46 "2011-01-02T18:30:24Z")
The site says Oregon is the most gay-curious, and has the most ghost towns, but no mention of hippie production. Surprising. ---
**Author:** ![Scubaqueen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@Scubaqueen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scubaqueen)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2011, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-your-state-u-s-good-at/565779/47 "2011-01-03T22:18:01Z")
Huh. Indiana. Limestone. Who cares? What about the really cool cars that drive really fast over on the west side of Indianapolis??? ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2011, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-your-state-u-s-good-at/565779/48 "2011-01-03T22:21:05Z")
Alabama: football and biodiversity. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Tranquilis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tranquilis/32/3639_2.png) [@Tranquilis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tranquilis)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2011, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-your-state-u-s-good-at/565779/49 "2011-01-03T22:30:01Z")
Being mythical. Also, credit cards, banks, chemists and engineers, and really crazy rich folks. ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2011, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-your-state-u-s-good-at/565779/50 "2011-01-03T22:58:28Z")
> [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](#): > > Tennessee is good at corruption. > > Pew thinktank rated us as the most corrupt state in the US. ☹ We’re number 1!! I was thinking it would have something to do with guns. Like “highest population of guns per bar/courtroom/playground.” ---
**Author:** ![Gordon\_Urquhart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/db5fbb/32.png) [@Gordon\_Urquhart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gordon_Urquhart)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2011, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-your-state-u-s-good-at/565779/51 "2011-01-04T21:20:44Z")
Colorado is #1 in beer production and our residents are the skinniest in all the land. (I contributed 50-ish gallons to the first statistic in 2010; I can’t say I was a very good contributor to the second stat.) ---
**Author:** ![Nars\_Glinley](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nars_glinley/32/8177_2.png) [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2011, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-your-state-u-s-good-at/565779/52 "2011-01-04T23:35:38Z")
We’re #1 in number of man-made lakes. We’re probably #56 in natural lakes. We’re good at football too. And oil. And natural gas. Boomer Sooner! ---
**Author:** ![carnut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnut/32/3531_2.png) [@carnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnut)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2011, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-your-state-u-s-good-at/565779/53 "2011-01-05T03:27:34Z")
> [@Nars\_Glinley](#): > > We’re probably #56 in natural lakes. 😃 We’ll let you come and visit ours in the land of sky blue waters. On my first big trip around the Great Plains states I was amazed at the number of small, round and rectangular lakes. I thought God was maybe working on graphic arts patterns. Then I realized they just might have been designed by human engineers. :smack: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-your-state-u-s-good-at/565779.md?page=2)