Apart from California, it's mostly "poor" states like Mississippi, Louisiana, Florida or Georgia that occupy the bottom spots. West Virginia, Kentucky and similar states arent doing too well either.

This post was edited by Black XistenZ on Feb 13 2020 09:13pm

You would be better ignoring the state name altogether and go by zip code.

Most of California isn't wealthy coastal areas. Most of it is rural farming, which is a demographic much more closely aligned with Florida, Georgia, etc.



I'm honestly surprised Missouri has an above average score.

This post was edited by Thor123422 on Feb 13 2020 09:41pm

California has 40m people, give or take, while the LA metropolitan area alone has ~18m and the Bay Area metro has around 9m.
That the farming regions in Cali's central valley arent a hub of intellectualism is obvious. But they alone cant explain Cali's low rank. The population of the two big urban agglomerations has to contribute.

It's also interesting to see how low New York ranks relative to its neighboring states. Given how many academic, cultural and economic elites NYC attracts, I would never have expected the state to rank below Ohio or Pennsylvania.

This post was edited by Black XistenZ on Feb 13 2020 09:41pm

Yeah I really have no idea of the scale of California. I've never been. I'm not well traveled, actually leaving the country for the first time on Saturday.

California is 2.34x bigger than Missouri.

/e Or about the same as Missouri + Arkansas + Louisiana.

This post was edited by Ghot on Feb 13 2020 10:10pm

Anyone down for a D2 hardcore walk?

Iowa

https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/15/entertainment/caroline-flack-love-island-dead-trnd/index.html

A story with some twists and turns
An ITV host Caroline Flack was charged after her escalating domestic abuse culminated in bashing in her tennis star boyfriend's head with a lamp while he was sleeping, cracking his skull open and spraying blood all over the sheets because she thought he was cheating on her. Despite the nearly fatal assault and an ex coming forward saying he experienced similar violence but felt silenced by an NDA, Flack received some support from some sides of the twitterverse while being lampooned and called out by publications like The Sun, including a rather illfated Valentine's Card joke they posted saying "I'll fucking lamp you". Then today she offered herself in the midst of the legal and media storm. Now a bunch of social media hate is being directed at The Sun and anyone who was hostile to her, claiming she's a victim of cyber/print bullying. Ex;



At least the true monster of this story has been identified, and its not the one that brained a defenseless person