Every state's least favorite state

[Klaralven]

[dweller]

1. C'mon to NC y'all !

Nobody hates us …
🙄

✌🏻

[edhopper]

6. I think they made a mistake with

S Carolina, why would they hate Ohio?

[dweller]

9. Primaries ?

✌🏻

[carpetbagger]

26. Football

Clemson v Ohio State. A majority of these are college football-based.

[ShazzieB]

35. OIC.

I was wondering about that myself. Some states are pretty obsessed with college football, so I get it.

[BGBD]

46. Bingo

Ohio State wiped Clemson out of the National Championship this year and this is reflecting that. Ask next year and you'd probably get a much different result. I'd bet they'd hate either NC or Florida most.

[former9thward]

83. Most of the West hates CA

There are no football powers in CA.

[treestar]

72. Agree; normal seems to be

they should hate NC, like NC hates them and like ND and SD.

[madinmaryland]

82. Football. Clemson is in South Carolina and has played Ohio State in a couple of championship games.

[electric_blue68]

56. At least we got a lot of support from pretty much the whole country after 9-11.

[AnyFunctioningAdult]

2. Even Florida

Hates Florida.

[Hoyt]

8. Yeah, I was trying to figure out if I'm colorblind.

[ShazzieB]

37. I KNOW, RIGHT?

That was driving me crazy for a while there. Pretty funny, actually.

[dalton99a]

16. +1

[Hugin]

20. Self loathing.

It actually explains a few things.

[SYFROYH]

85. The southern boundary of "the South" goes from Daytona, to Ocala, and then the panhandle.

And its very different from the rest of Florida in my experience (that is from Tampa, to Orlando, to Cape Canaveral and south).

[Blue_true]

93. Yeah, we are sad self-haters down here. Mostly we don't like our neighborhoods. nt

[hlthe2b]

3. Nope... Generations of Coloradoans have hated Texas, not California.

The Missouri-Kansas thing is about right. Florida hates Florida?

[frogmarch]

32. Nowadays CO hates CA.

Google why Coloradans hate California and you'll see what I mean. I'm a Coloradan and don't get it, but there it is.

Here's a snip from the rooster.com:

Next, show us a Californian who isn’t the biggest burrito snob on earth. Californians are the first to complain about every other state’s Hispanic food choices. The best burrito, taco food truck in the entire state of Colorado would elicit the most blasé “I mean, it’s like alright or whatever” response from a transplant Californian. First of all shut the hell up, secondly, french fries have no business being inside of a burrito unless you’re an invalid or six. And California doesn't even have green chili. Yeah, they have green salsa but it's not green chili and therefore we're considering all their burrito arguments null and void.

[Dial H For Hero]

34. I've seen many a "Stop Californicating Colorado" bumper sticker.

[frogmarch]

41. I've seen quite a few here in Denver. nt

[AllyCat]

36. Right? Tomato wars? Remember? We made fun of their matching ski

Ensembles and their boots that were completely impractical in the snow.

[AnrothElf]

42. Yup. Here I sit my buns a'flexin'..

... Just gave birth to another Texan.

Written on generations of Colorado men's stalls in Elkhorn and Stockmens Bars from North Park to San Antonito

[Archae]

4. Oh yeah!

Here in Wisconsin, we have a term for Illinois jerks.

(Not everyone in Illinois, naturally.)

FIB's.

" (Bleep)-ing Illinois Bastards."

These are the the Illinois tourists who drive up here to Wisconsin, denigrate us "Cheeseheads," but we love when they spend their money at Wisconsin tourist traps.

(And the Wisconsin Dells is lots of great natural scenery, surrounded by tourist traps.)

[LakeArenal]

10. Do you know what we in C WI called folks from MN?

SHOOMS



sh** heads out of MN. Works for MI, too.

[Archae]

11. LOL!

[Captain Zero]

31. Ok. But the reason Illinois hates Indiana is

Because of the day the Illinois band was driven off the Indiana University football field at halftime by the snowballs thrown from the Indiana student section.

We lost the football game but we won the snowball fight with their band.

Freedom! Here's a snowball fer yer Tuba!

[AllyCat]

38. FIB. Originally from IL, moved to CO, and then WI.

No one in Wisconsin could get past that I was originally from Illinois. No one. But now that I live here, I get it. They come up and trash the place and then back up the interstate from the Dells to the state line on Sunday evening.

[John Ludi]

64. I moved from

Chicago to rural SW WI...originally from Detroit. I learned pretty fast to tell people that I'm from Detroit, as telling people that I moved here from Chicago got me a lot of flak.

[Skittles]

5. Florida hates Florida

that could explain Florida Man

[Devil Child]

17. I appreciate Flordia's honesty!

Got quite the laugh outta me.

[Azathoth]

7. So PA, NY, CT hate NJ (yup), while NJ is the only state in the Union that hates everyone

Yup, sounds about right.

[BigmanPigman]

50. I found that interesting (and amusing).

[rownesheck]

12. I live in Texas,

and yes, I too hate Oklahoma. It's for no reason other than that school in Norman.

[SoonerPride]

80. Boomer Sooner.

[rownesheck]

81. Noooooooo!!!!!!

Why God?!

[Ocelot II]

13. Nobody hates Minnesota (except NJ, which hates everybody).

And we don't really hate Wisconsin, we just pity them because they had to put up with Scott Walker and they still have a demented legislature.

[AllyCat]

39. Thank you Ocelot!

[roamer65]

14. A Nebraskan once told me what IOWA stands for.

Idiots Out Wandering About.

I didn’t know there was a dislike between them.

[madaboutharry]

21. It's college football.

University of Iowa v. University of Nebraska football gets a lot of folks all worked up.

[SeattleVet]

28. At University of Nebraska they have an "N" on their helmets...

I understand that it stands for Knowledge!

[moonscape]

15. The whole western US hates us Californians! n/t

[Devil Child]

18. That we do!

[Raine]

22. Yah seems like we're hated by more states then any other 🙁

and supposedly we hate Texas the most but I don't.

[Mr.Bill]

25. Strange.

Even after we've moved there and raised their property values.

[Tree Lady]

30. When I moved to WA I literally could say

I moved from any state but CA and be accepted, then we moved down to Oregon and said from WA which was ok here. People are upset about housing prices. We didn't move with a bunch of house money so not who they disliked.

[chowder66]

48. They should probably hate everyone then because people move here from all over

the country and the world. The latest exodus shows that lower to middle income people have left due to the cost of living while wealthier more educated are moving in.

In my experience native Californians are the most grounded people, they watch people come and go but are well established so they are warm and friendly. Some of the people who move here will turn around in a year and go back home. The rest move for various reasons. It's like New York or any big metropolis.
The mass exodus' are usually after a big earthquake, big fires or basically some big event. The problem that it creates is that people don't invest in each other and establishing yourself is harder due to people drifting in... then out of state. LA is notoriously hard to make committed friendships that last.

[snpsmom]

58. Yep

And when you move away after being a native, people hate you no matter the reason for your move or your se status.

[Archae]

19. I know a guy from Maryland, and he has this to say about West Virginia...

"There is stupid, and their is West Virginia stupid."

[carpetbagger]

29. After I moved from MD to WV...

I found out that all the WV jokes are told as "Preston County, WV" jokes, including the nickname for Smith's Patterns of Human Malformations, "The Preston County Yearbook"

[appalachiablue]

33. Is the Md. guy a Baltimoron? lol

[Archae]

65. Was. He got out when he could.

He lives in Georgia now.

[róisín_dubh]

62. LOL

As a current resident of WV...I'll keep my mouth shut. I've never been more miserable in a place in my entire life.

[Initech]

23. Im an Angels fan and I hate the Astros, so take that at face value.

Also, I'm a Lakers fan and the Celtics are my mortal enemy so...

[11 Bravo]

86. Everyone outside of Texas hates the cheating scumbag Asstros.

[Initech]

87. And of course cheating asshole #1 gets a walk off home run today.

BOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

[11 Bravo]

88. I know! AAARRRRRGGGGHHHHH!

[Iggo]

90. Who? Nipple Buzzer?

[FireUpChips10]

24. Looks like Michigan and South Carolina share something in common!

[RockRaven]

27. SC hates OH?... Not that I can't understand hating OH, but it's 3 states away with no

agreeing states in between.

Also, FL hates FL....

[aggiesal]

45. I can figure out why S. Carolina hates Ohio ...

Sometimes it's called Ohiowa, because some midwesterners can remember which
state is Ohio and which is Iowa, so both are called Ohiowa, just to make sure.

[themaguffin]

70. football

[aggiesal]

76. That's not true either ...

South Carolina has played Ohio St. twice and won both times.
2001 24-7
2002 31-28

[themaguffin]

95. That doesn't mean they like them. OSU beat them big in January.

[aggiesal]

96. I think it's more based on Clemson than U. of South Carolina ...

but Clemson has won all 4 match ups with Ohio St.

Ohio St. 0-6 vs South Carolina teams, I would think that
SC is hated in Ohio!

[themaguffin]

97. Yes, but it's been a dominent program and likely has a lot of fans in the state compared to

U of S Carolina, which, yes is the big state school, but hasn't been significant in college football like Clemson.

People are just irrational with sports.

[Ms. Toad]

79. You missed one -

OhioIdowa (Idaho gets thrown in there, for some reason).

[unblock]

40. Great example of inappropriate use of graphics!

Here a simple table with two columns would clearly convey the information. Those in the entry in the first column hate those in the entry in the second column.

Simple and clear.

The use of a color-coded map renders it useless for colorblind people.

Even for people with standard color vision, the graphics make it a pain to search and move back and forth from map to color to corresponding color to hated state name.

Worse, you basically have to know the states from their place on the map because they're not labeled. Granted, everyone should be able to identify all 50 states. Standard 8th grade stuff. But in reality, not everyone can, at least not 100%.

[ShazzieB]

43. I live in Illinois, and I have no idea why Illinois hates Indiana!

Is there a college football rivalry I'm not aware of? I don't follow Big Ten sports, so I'm lost.

Also, why does Wisconsin have to hate us? Seriously, I absolutely love Wisconsin. So much gorgeous scenery, which we don't have much of here in the Land of Lincoln. (The fact that our state nickname is based on a person should tell you something!

Edited to add: Now that I think about it, Wisconsin's state nickname is based on an animal*, which doesn't say anything about the state's scenic beauty, which really is outstanding, imo.

*The Badger State

[PortTack]

49. You're kidding right? We have some of the best gun laws in the country...80+% of illegal guns

Used in violent crimes in Chicago come from our shitty awful neighbors to the east who have some of the worst gun control laws of any state! Then there’s pence!!

[AngryOldDem]

68. In addition to guns, it's because of taxes.

Indiana makes it clear that it is a better state for businesses than Illinois because of lower property tax rates and abatements. (Of course, that means it sucks for the rest of us.) Indiana takes great delight in poking at Illinois on the tax issue.

It has nothing to do with sports. All the rivalries are intrastate. Indiana-Purdue is the biggest.

[Hekate]

44. According to Instagram? Good grief.

[smirkymonkey]

47. Why does the rest of New England (except CT) hate Massachussets?

I wasn't born here (New Yorker), but I wasn't aware of that. I know there are terrible drivers here, but I wasn't aware of anything else we did that was that offensive.

[jcmaine72]

51. Well, speaking as someone who grew up in Maine...

I think I can say with a fair degree of confidence that it's not necessarily people from Massachusetts that Mainers (especially rural Yankees) dislike per se, but anyone "from away". In other words, the whole world.

Such petty provincialism is one of the hallmarks of my home state. It's tough to explain to someone from a normal state that's actually plugged into the rest of humanity. Mainers are, after all, generally a people who prize above all else a person's ability to "keep oneself to oneself".

[smirkymonkey]

52. I'm not a native Bay stater (I'm a NY'er) but I love Maine!

My sister lives there so I go up often and it's one of my favorite places. I haven't really noticed a particular hostility on the southern Maine coast, but they are probably used to us by now and also I am friendly and don't have an attitude.

Maybe if I went instate more I would notice it. Where are you from, if you don't mind me asking? My sister lives in Kennebunk, so not very far up. I have been up much further on the coast, but I haven't really been inland.

[jcmaine72]

53. That's the cosmopolitan part of the state.

Or, I should say, whatever it is that passes for cosmopolitan in Maine. You should try venturing into the hinterland a bit more.

Yeah, I didn't mean to characterize it as an openly hostile, pitchforks-and-torches kind of provincialism. That's too dramatic for small town Mainers. It comes more in the form of suspicious glances flashed at the local gas station or market.

[sir pball]

75. I think that's more of a general Old New England attitude

I'm the scion of one of Lovecraft's "gently bred" families, my mother was a Waite; while growing up, that side of the family definitely still had a healthy streak of the isolationism you speak of - not as pronounced as the five years I spent in Skowhegan, but certainly not vestigial either.

Throughout the farther reaches of the area, NW CT/Western Mass/VT/NH, it's not uncommon to this day to find a private, even reclusive pre-Revolutionary family quietly living in the same region they've been in for 300 years. It's not as obvious as up North, enough outsiders have settled down there to effectively hide the old blood, but it's not a Maine thing by any means.

[NNadir]

54. When I was growing up in New York, I hated New Jersey. I was an unbelievably stupid kid.

I would hate to live anywhere other than New Jersey now.

[róisín_dubh]

61. I kind of hated growing up in NJ

But now it's the only place in the US I'd ever consider living. Unfortunately, my work is not in NJ.

[electric_blue68]

55. I'm a NYC'r. I have had, and still have relatives I love there...

so I have a fondness for NJ. The highways we took to get there, what we see along the way.

When I often visit at Christmas time I love taking the bus back (and get driven to bus station in another town)
I love seeing the suburban holiday decoration at night! 🥰

[Vinca]

57. Why would ME, NH & VT hate Massachusetts? Makes no sense.

[róisín_dubh]

60. Born and raised Jersey Girl here...

and while I don't hate everywhere, there are definitely a few states I never want to step foot in ever again (or for the first time). One of them is the location of my legal US residence, and let's just say I have no urge to fly back there in a few weeks.

[Shrek]

63. Hawaii hates Florida?

Gotta be a story there somehow.

[femmedem]

66. I think it's hilarious that NJ's neighbors hate NJ and NJ hates everyone.

I was also struck by how many states think their neighboring states are the worst.

[treestar]

73. where you are most likely to encounter drivers from

[femmedem]

91. It's true! When I lived in Rhode Island, people always cursed Massachusetts drivers!

[treestar]

92. In Delaware we are terrorized by PA

drivers.

It's so small that we end up in neighboring states easily, where they probably think we drive slowly and timidly!

[Jersey Devil]

67. NJ even hates itself

North Jersey and South Jersey don't get along, at all.

[Klaralven]

69. Especially the North Jersey Democrats and the South Jersey Democrats

[KentuckyWoman]

78. Made me laugh.

I'm southern and had to get used to the New Jersey type. Kind and generous as the day is long. BUT ... You cannot be demure around New Jersey folks. They'll flatten you without a 2nd thought, although not meaning you any harm.

[Jersey Devil]

94. Moved south from NJ and love how friendly everyone is here in NC

When I first moved to NC I couldn't figure out why people were waving hello whenever I drove or walked by them. Nobody does that up north. It's been 5 years and thankfully no one has said "bless your heart" to me so I must be doing OK.

[treestar]

71. All states surrounding NJ hate NJ

and NJ hates everyone!

[Bucky]

74. I love all states, just like Jesus

But I totally pity those loveable dumbasses in Oklahoma

[ProfessorGAC]

77. Well, That's Odd

In the southeast, it shows AL, GA, & FL in grass green.
The key says grass green "Hates Florida".
Floridians hate Florida the most? That weird.
Also funny, is NJ, which the key says "Hates Everybody"

[rictofen]

84. "According to @MattSurelee's Instagram followers"

Well that sounds very definitive.

[Iggo]

89. Don't sell us Californians short.

We hate New York and Florida, too.

And Arizona’s a comer.