Pair Each State to it's Exact Opposite State (unemployment, college)
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Massachusetts- Cold, snowy, very liberal, wealthy, and non-religious (or Catholic).
Mississippi- Hot, humid, overwhelmingly conservative, fat/poor, and absurdly religious (Protestant).
Idaho = Dry as a bone, conservative, landlocked, sparsely populated, very cold winters.
Maryland = Humid, liberal, coastal, densely populated, not too cold in the winter with very hot and sticky summers.
Massachusetts- Cold, snowy, very liberal, wealthy, and non-religious (or Catholic).
Mississippi- Hot, humid, overwhelmingly conservative, fat/poor, and absurdly religious (Protestant).
Well that's just kind of wrong. Massachusetts is much more racially homogeneous than MS first off, so the Black people of MS might disagree. Mass is also known as the "Alabama of the North".
I'll agree Mass is a pretty educated state, but MS is not wildly illiterate. The Massachusetts government is tolerant, sure. But the Massachusetts people? Tolerant of what exactly? MA is the definition of NIMBY.
Mass and MS are more like the opposite sides of two different coins.
The opposite of Massachusetts would be Arizona IMO.
-Both extremely partisan policies but opposite sides
-Both have Bad Racial history coupled with progress (MA) or regression (Arizona)
-Most Latinos in MA are from the Caribbean, Most Latinos in AZ are from Mexico.
-Large state among a bunch of larger states (AZ)
-Small state among a bunch of smaller states (MA)
West Virginia (mountainous, rural, little formal education, lots of conservative Democrats) and New Jersey (flat, suburban, many are college-educated, a lot of liberal Republicans)
Illinois (crappy economy, few transplants, boring topography, cold, center-left politics with a history of far-left US Senators) and North Carolina (good economy, many transplants, diverse geography, hot, center-right politics with a history of far-right US Senators).
West Virginia (mountainous, rural, little formal education, lots of conservative Democrats) and New Jersey (flat, suburban, many are college-educated, a lot of liberal Republicans)
Illinois (crappy economy, few transplants, boring topography, cold, center-left politics with a history of far-left US Senators) and North Carolina (good economy, many transplants, diverse geography, hot, center-right politics with a history of far-right US Senators).
I think North Carolina is closer to having an average economy than a good economy. The state's unemployment rate is 6.4% to the nation's 6.3% and the state's labor force participation rate is 61.3% to the nation's 62.8%.
By contrast, Illinois' unemployment rate is 7.5% but its labor force participation rate is an above average 65.1%.
Last edited by SyraBrian; 06-22-2014 at 01:54 PM..
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