What’s Your State (U.S.) Good At?

Me, too. Not the Big Pharma part, the location part.
And we grow some DARN good tomatoes! It is impossible to get a better tomato than a fresh vine-ripened NJ one.

My home state, sigh supposedly it’s got pot with the highest THC concentration in the world (from what I’ve heard, I don’t claim to have any expertise in that area). So it’s good at maryjuwanna. :smiley:

My current state, I don’t know yet so I’ll defer to Johnny L.A. (NoWA is Washington state right?).

Woo hoo!! Virginia currently boasts the best high school–Thomas Jefferson High School of Technology (whatever, you can tell that I didn’t go there).

Washington DC is apparently best on not being on that stupid site.

Nevada: Unemployment it seems. My brother has been under-employed or completely unemployed for more than 2 years… and we have the highest unemployment rate in the USA.

I read recently that New York leads the nation in the production of cream cheese.

Take that Philadelphia.

Why doesn’t this surprise me?

New York State’s Adirondack Park is the largest park in the contiguous United States. 6.1 million acres – that’s larger than Yellowstone, Yosemite, Grand Canyon, Glacier, and Great Smoky Mountains National Parks combined.

People talk like Minnesota shopping is a bad thing. But hey, we’re the state that doesn’t have a sales tax on clothing. No wonder busloads of people come here to outfit their kids for school each August.

We also do cold well, can handle snow better than just about anyplace in the US except Buffalo, NY., know that plaid flannel is always in style in winter and offer Lake Wobegon to the world. Not bad, doncha know?

Massachusetts.

I have never heard the stats on speeding tickets given in that chart and I am not sure if it is correct or not because I have never been stopped for a speeding ticket in 14 years here and I drive 85 mph at least daily and sometimes over 100 mph if I am in a hurry. The police don’t seem to blush at raw speeding on interstate highways unless you are endangering the general public or not doing it right. It is the best however at producing super-aggressive drivers and weird traffic situations though especially in Boston proper. When I have driven around Manhattan, I am always impressed with how calm and intuitive it all seems in comparison to Boston.

A more honorable title would be the higher education capital of the world. Everyone knows Harvard and MIT but the full list is about 100 institutions or more strong in the greater Boston area alone but the full list of A list schools goes deeper than that and the full list consists of good schools that don’t get much airtime because of the insane competition. The secondary universities here would be flagship schools in most places.

Most corn produced. I needed a webpage to tell me that?

I still remember the wording on the Worcester Cold Storage billboard:

Every great American city has at least one great college. Worcester has ten.

Then it would list the 10 colleges. I still look for that damn sign every time I drive 290. I don’t think I’ll ever get used to it being gone.

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. :slight_smile:

I live in Missouri now. Everybody in Missouri smokes, or so it seems. (I can get a carton of off brand smokes for $18.50.) Welcomes signs should read: “Welcome to Missouri! Smoke 'em if you got 'em!”

My home state of Louisiana is good at being different than the rest of the lower 48. It has a different system of laws than the rest based mostly on old French law. It has New Orleans which is a unique, world-class travel destination, and several different subcultures with unique cuisines. It is unfortunately really good at getting in the international news with things like Hurricane Katrina and the BP oil spill. I love my home state but God is trying hard to kill it for some reason.

I never would have guessed that it was rice. Doesn’t rice require flatland?

Oh, I’m in Arkansas, if this ever becomes a zombie and my membership has expired.

One of the states. Pennsylvania doesn’t, either. Which accounts for the busloads of people hitting the Lancaster County outlet malls every August…

I can’t find any specifics about how they rate states but can’t figure out how Idaho got a frowny face given that something like 75% of our power is hydro – depending on the dams, not so good for the fishies I guess but very good on the air pollution and renewable fronts.

Hot springs. Mmm. Nice.

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!

I note that MO got a frowny-face, too; I know they’re for energy policy, but MO roads are TERRIBLE.

Texas has a SAT ranking of 49. Moor is better write?