Mr. Chairman, the great Commonwealth of Virginia, the Mother of Presidents, the site of the first permament English Settlement in the New World, the Old Dominion, and the birthplace of so many great Americans, is proud to nominate Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson.
New Mexico. Considering the problems we have convincing others that New Mexico is actually a state, there aren’t a whole lot of candidates. The most recent would probably be Heather Wilson’s and Pete Domenici’s apparent roles in the firing of David Iglesias. Other nominees would be Los Alamos for all their security problems over the years or maybe the city of Albuquerque for all the times COPS was filmed there. (I never had a problem with it but others do because of the possibility of resulting image problems. I don’t think COPS is really fair as the majority of those episodes were all shot in the same bad parts of town anyway.)
Abraham Lincoln. Sure, he did some great things and all, but being known as ‘Honest Abe’ we can’t just shrug and say all Illinois politicians are corrupt, we have a shining example that we can produce competent statesmen.
Even though I now live in Egypt and Hawaii, I think of myself as being from New Hampshire, and that’s the state that occurred to me in reference to this question. Luckily, no one in recent memory has equaled William Loeb, late publisher of that right-wing rag, the Union Leader, or former governor Mel Thompson, who in all seriousness proposed that New Hampshire should have its own nuclear arsenal. (He didn’t say so, but we are pretty sure he wanted to nuke Massachusetts.)
Things have improved since the 1970s. One of our more famous native sons now is David Souter. Okay, he’s more conservative than I am, but the man has proven a lot more sensible than we feared when he was first nominated.
(No one from Hawaii embarrasses me particularly.)
In recent times, Pacman Jones.
In times past, governors, mayors and politicians in general. Too many to name just a few.
For natives who aren’t big into Country Music, Country Music. For those like me who moved here knowing full well what was already here, Country Music isn’t that big an embarrassment, just an annoyance we can live with. Besides, “Music City” has way more than just Country Music, and the entire state is birthplace for many more musical genres than just Country.
I guess the overall most embarrassing individual would be James Earl Ray.
I seriously doubt he’s from here, but while he lived here, Fred Smoot certainly made Minnesota look bad. Thanks for that boat trip, Fred.
Damn you, you took mine! Oh, well…I’ll nominate Bob Taft and Jim Traficant.
Oh yeah. And Jim Trafficant’s hair. That hair deserves a post of its own.
First off the top of my head are John William King, Shawn Berry, and Lawrence Brewer, the racists who murdered James Byrd Jr. by dragging him to death in Jasper, Texas.
Anne Coulter. She’s lived at various times in Connecticut, Kansas, Michigan, and Florida. But she was born in New York and has lived here more than anywhere else.
Jeffrey Dahmer. I don’t think I need to explain why.
At least four out of five former mayors of St. Louis, back to the Madame Choteau era.
And downstream from its similarly low-lying sewage treatment facility, if I remember correctly.
I knew I was forgetting something, and that is various Minnesota Vikings, esp the ones who organized the infamous Sex Boat party.
I am from Nebraska. The Third Congressional District of my red state sent Tom Osborne to Washington for two terms (the first term he received some 87% of the vote) based upon the fact he brought us three national college football championships as head coach of the Cornhuskers.
Wasn’t he the guy that was (at least on one occasion) blathering on about a “chocolate New Orleans”, and not in the Homer Simpson confectionery way? Oy.
I can’t really say much. I live in Florida. We’re full of really bizarre and embarrassing people. This morning, however, I was incredibly embarassed by this chaplain who was recently fired; he’s considering filing a lawsuit because he thinks that being fired after not following orders at work to not include “in Jesus’ name” in prayers with people not of his faith is religious discrimination. [sub]cite[/sub] The sad part about it is that, when they presented the story, the tone seemed to convey the idea that it was okay to push your beliefs on others, even when it’s against the regulations of your job. :smack: :eek:
Does your mummy do the Hula? 
I see that my fellow South Carolinians are either too humilated or too busy making lists to participate. I’d like to nominate dear old Maurice Bessenger, who has built an empire out of barbeque and racism, or dear old Strom Thurmond, holder of the Senate record for filibustering the Civil Rights act, or there’s always Susan Smith, who drove her children into a lake and claimed a black man abducted them, and of course our used-to-be-current state treasurer Ravenel, caught in a big cocaine ring thing, and we’re the people who had to make a new law about “hog dogging”, because it was illegal for a hog to fight a hog and illegal for a dog to fight a dog but… you get the picture.
I came in here thinking of Traficant, but I couldn’t remember the guy’s name. Maybe he’s not that embarrassing.
I feel most ashamed of the Ohio voters who re-elected Dubya. Seriously. Re-elected? Fool me once, and all that.
Wow. Bra-vo.
Well, we always have Rep. Steve “torture=hazing” King. 