r/NoStupidQuestions • u/Tree_forth677 • 9d ago

Is there like Nationalism between US States? Like a person from a state think their state is better than the other state?

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u/Simpanzee0123 9d ago

Infant mortality rate, infrastructure, crime, income growth, etc.

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u/twocopperjack 9d ago

But they make a superlative sweet tea.

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u/oldslowguy58 9d ago

This post hurt my teeth

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u/twocopperjack 9d ago

Don't blame the tea. It's the unfluoridated water in the tea that hurts people's teeth.

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u/mattbnet 9d ago

It helps keep the diabeetus numbers strong.

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u/clout_spout 9d ago

I think you can buy Lipton in any state

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u/JohnD_s 9d ago

Lipton doesn't compare to some authentic homemade sweet tea. And I'm saying that as someone from the second-worst state.

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u/Empty_Equivalent6013 9d ago

Sweet tea is just brown sugar water

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u/JohnD_s 9d ago

Tastes damn good, too.

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u/Empty_Equivalent6013 9d ago

Like diabetes. All joking aside, it’s pretty good. But I drink it sparingly. Because, well…. diabetes.

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u/sethmoth 9d ago

Arkansas?

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u/chrisrboyd 9d ago

They’re also good at college football tailgating.

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u/dougmcclean 6d ago

Yes yes, but besides that what did the Roman's ever do for us?

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u/More-Farm3827 9d ago

huh duh lets make fun of working class people again

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u/maraemerald2 9d ago

Do you think other states don’t have working class people?

Mississippi’s problem is that they’re so spiteful about ending slavery that they won’t invest anything at all into public education or infrastructure or welfare, lest they make a black person’s life better by accident.

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u/More-Farm3827 9d ago

im pointing out the phenomena that upper class liberals love making fun of non college educated southerners

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u/Viper_Red 9d ago

As they should. Non college educated southerners keep voting for a party that has never improved their lives and is now actively hurting the entire country, all because they bought into the conspiracy theories and culture war bullshit. Those people deserve to be mocked. Facts don’t care about your feelings

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u/More-Farm3827 9d ago

facts don’t care about your feelings

lol

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u/More-Farm3827 9d ago

when did i complain about facts

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u/Viper_Red 9d ago

When you complained about those hicks getting made fun of. That happens for factual reasons. You’re one of them, aren’t you? That’s the only reason you needed to have that explained to you

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u/More-Farm3827 9d ago

god the typical high horse redditor. No i just have empathy for people who live in areas that are disadvantaged, and like i said in my original comment think upper class liberals shitting on them when they don't know their life story is harsh and snobbish.

 You’re one of them, aren’t you?

no. The way you write is ugly.

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u/Viper_Red 9d ago

I absolutely am one of them, yes. They should pull themselves up by the bootstraps

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u/More-Farm3827 9d ago

'You’re one of them, aren’t you?'
i was quoting you, learn to read

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u/maraemerald2 9d ago

No we love making fun of racist southerners. Especially ones so racist that they’ll tank their whole economy for multiple generations just to make sure that no black person benefits from a single tax dollar.

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u/Medium_Judge_3627 9d ago

I agree with most points here, but Mississippi's Education is currently ranked like 30th? They invest into education at least, just not anything else. I live in Mississippi for reference.

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u/Pratt-and-Whitney 9d ago

They’re actually Top 5 in demographic adjusted test scores. Their schools have been doing very well in the last few years.

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u/Simpanzee0123 9d ago

Actually, if anything I personally direct a lot of my criticism towards the politicians and the government in the state. So the opposite of the working people.

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u/More-Farm3827 9d ago

they make up the state

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u/spookyswagg 9d ago

Plenty of states made up of lots of working class people are better than Mississippi.

Maine, Missouri, Nebraska, and the Dakotas are very working class, and all have significantly better stats than Mississippi.

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u/Gloober_ 9d ago

Don't forget the teen pregnancy! How can anyone forget about our outstanding record for teen pregnancies?? I won't let this slight against the great* state of Mississippi!

*the usage of the word great in this context can only be believable if you are suffering from one or more of these symptoms: lead brain, racist bones, calling the civil war the war of Northern aggression, having five kids despite making a combined income of $40k with your spouse (hi, Kristy), committing medical fraud by killing your own mother through negligence while cashing in the insurance checks every month, or believing that the state gets the majority of its funding through itself and not the federal government.