Yeah makes me wonder how much of this is self-reported bullshit. I can believe New Hampshire, it’s tiny and mostly progressive. But Utah is huge, conservative and mostly captured by drones (45%) who wouldn’t say anything bad about their life because they wouldn’t want it to reflect poorly on the church.
The high numbers: #5, #6, #16… Expected the desert life and the northern area right next to the dakotas to be bleak. Also for idaho to be a bunch of suffering farmers that offset the few civilized areas.
The middle numbers: #17, 20, 23, 27, 29… I expected all of those to be much lower.
Low numbers: #40 stood out. For all the horror of texas, it has a lot of money in the big cities and the oil fields.
I did not expect number 5 to be Utah.
Yeah makes me wonder how much of this is self-reported bullshit. I can believe New Hampshire, it’s tiny and mostly progressive. But Utah is huge, conservative and mostly captured by drones (45%) who wouldn’t say anything bad about their life because they wouldn’t want it to reflect poorly on the church.
I’ve visited Utah a few times, it’s kinda boring but it really is surprisingly and pretty consistently nice.
I’m not Mormon, but definite retirement consideration. Really, how huge the church is is the only thing stopping me.
Mormons don’t drink, I believe?
I wonder how much that impacts the overall figures.
There’s quite a few surprises on the map for me.
The high numbers: #5, #6, #16… Expected the desert life and the northern area right next to the dakotas to be bleak. Also for idaho to be a bunch of suffering farmers that offset the few civilized areas.
The middle numbers: #17, 20, 23, 27, 29… I expected all of those to be much lower.
Low numbers: #40 stood out. For all the horror of texas, it has a lot of money in the big cities and the oil fields.