What is the Most Screwed Up Thing About Your State? Check This Chart
 

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Rationale and statistics:
Most stats taken from America's Health Rankings and the U.S. Census.

1. Alabama: highest rate of stroke (3.8%) (tied with Oklahoma)

2. Alaska: highest suicide rate (23.6 suicides per 100,000 people in 2004)

3. Arizona: highest rate of alcoholism

4. Arkansas: worst average credit score (636).

5. California: most air pollution (15.2 micrograms per cubic meter)

6. Colorado: highest rate of cocaine use per capita (3.9% total population)

7. Connecticut: highest rate of breast cancer.

8. Delaware: highest abortion rate (27 per 1,000 women aged 15 to 44)

9. Florida: highest rate of identity theft (122.3 reports per 100,000 people)

10. Georgia: sickly based on highest rate of influenza

11. Hawaii ?highest cost of living (tied with California).

12. Idaho ? lowest level of Congressional clout.

13. Illinois: highest rate of robbery (284.7 incidences per 100,000 people)

14. Indiana: rated the most environmentally unfriendly by NMI solutions.

15. Iowa: highest percentage of people age 85 and older (1.8 percent) (tied with three other states).

16. Kansas: poorest health based on highest average number of limited activity days per month (3.5 days).

17. Kentucky: most cancer deaths (227 per 100,000 people) (BONUS fact: Kentucky also has the highest rate of tobacco smokers ? 25.6%)

18. Louisiana: highest rate of gonorrhea (264.4 reported cases per 100,000 people).

19. Maine: dumbest state claim based on lowest average SAT score (1389).

20. Maryland: highest rate of AIDS diagnosis (27.6 people per 100,000 people).

21. Massachusetts: worst drivers claim based on highest rate of auto accidents.

22. Michigan: highest unemployment rate (13.6%)

23. Minnesota: highest number of reported tornadoes (123 in 2010).

24. Mississippi: highest rate of obesity (35.3% of total population)

BONUS facts: Mississippi ranks last in the most number of categories. These include highest rate of child poverty (31.9%), highest rate of infant mortality (10.3%) lowest median household income ($35,078), highest teen birth rate (71.9 per 1,000 women aged 15 to 19) and highest overall rate of STDs.

25. Missouri: highest rate of bankruptcy (700 out of every 100,000 people).

26. Montana: highest rate of drunk driving deaths (1.12 deaths per 100 million miles driven).

27. Nebraska: highest rate of women murdered annually

28. Nevada: highest rate violent crime (702.2 offenses per 100,000 people). BONUS fact: Nevada also has the highest rate of foreclosure (one in 99 houses).

29. New Hampshire: highest rate of corporate taxes.

30. New Jersey: highest rate of citizen taxation (11.8%).

31. New Mexico: antisocial claim based on lowest ranking in social heath policies.

32. New York: longest average daily commute (30.6 minutes) .

33. North Carolina: lowest average teacher salary.

34. North Dakota: ranked last in ugliest residents report as chosen by The Daily Beast..

35. Ohio: nerdiest state claim based on highest number of library visits per capita (6.9).

36. Oklahoma: highest rate of female incarceration

37. Oregon: highest rate of long-term homeless people

38. Pennsylvania: highest rate of arson deaths (55.56 annually).

39. Rhode Island: highest rate of illicit drug use (12.5% of population).

40. South Carolina: highest percentage of mobile homes (18.8%)

41. South Dakota: highest rate of forcible rape 76.5 per 100,000

42. Tennessee: chosen most corrupt state by The Daily Beast..

43. Texas: lowest high school graduation rate (78.3%).

44. Utah: highest rate of of online porn subscriptions. :1orglaugh:1orglaugh:thumbsup

45. Vermont: infertility claim based on lowest birth rate of any state (10.6 births per 1,000) (tied with Maine).

46. Virginia: highest number of alcohol-related motorcyle deaths.

47. Washington: most cases of bestiality (4 reported in 2010).

48. West Virginia: highest rate of heart attack (6.5 percent of population)

49. Wisconsin: highest rate of binge drinking (23.2 percent of population)

50. Wyoming: highest rate of deadly car crashes (24.6 deaths per 100,000).

*Source: http://www.policymic.com/articles/64...eck-this-chart

lowest average teacher salary, idk about that.

Here's the source for teachers salaries http://www.southernstudies.org/2008/...r-teacher.html

I guarantee that identity theft isn't the most screwed up thing about Florida :1orglaugh

No this is just based on a movie http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2024432/...y?ref_=tt_ql_6

California arguably produces some of the worst boob jobs...

AIDs. That's awesome. All those heroin addicts in Baltimore City. Thank god I live no where near there.

I will take Tornadoes. Seems we got off easy compared to some of the other states out there.

Well Utah seems like a prime target for some extra industry advertising.

Interesting that PA is arson. I've commented to several people since growing up and leaving the Philly area that I see a lot less stories about house fires on the local news in other cities. I always thought, and maybe it is true too, that the older row homes in Philly just made it easier for a fire to spread quickly.

Also..probably wrong to comment on the state with the ugliest residents being next to the state with rape as their issue?

14. Indiana: cut Payton Manning.

Interesting...but beastiality? :1orglaugh

Air pollution doesn't seem so bad compared to most of those. Its tough if you were born in Maine and now reside in North Dakota. lol

I live at a California beach city so I get the fresh air first:thumbsup

Indiana - Least Green. Sounds just about right (chucks radioactive material from car)

Some good News?