This Map Will Let You Know What Your State Can Cheer "We're #1!" About
Last edited Tue Apr 28, 2015, 04:52 AM - Edit history (2)
Deciding which American state to live in isn’t easy. It’s like entering an all-you-can-eat casino buffet with the limitation of only being able to choose one food item. Before deciding where to live and buy a home it’s important to be informed, which is why Estately has compiled this map and list of what each state has more of per capita than any other. Some are good, some are bad, but all are unique to that specific state.
ALABAMA—racist tweets
The state’s health woes and poverty provide plenty of other options (highest percentage of strokes, diabetes, homeless children, etc.), but the avalanche of racist tweets during the 2012 presidential election really set it apart from the rest of the country—not counting Mississippi, which was a close second.
ALASKA—veterans
The Last Frontier State is unfortunate in its per capita first place finishes for violent crime, rape, and gun violence, but America can find solace in Alaska having the highest percentage of veterans per capita, and by far the most bald eagles.
ARIZONA—U.F.O. sightings
Look! Up in the Arizona sky! It’s a bird. It’s a plane. It’s… an alien spaceship.? With over four UFO sightings for every 100,000 people Arizona had the most reported UFO sightings of any state. Maine was second.
http://blog.estately.com/2015/03/what-does-each-state-have-more-of-than-any-other/
= new reply since forum marked as read
They are pure NEW Mexican! 
===============
Always in transit. Two stand out.
Once in Albuquerque when Amtrak laid over for a couple of hours. Found a great restaurant. I always look for the little, out of the way, places. They never let me down. This time it was a gem. I only wish my wife and I had more time, but we had walked around before finding the place so we had to eat and run to get back to the train. But great food and when we told them our time limit they were fast. The food was fucking great.
The other was when I was driving back to Michigan from CA, with everything I owned in the back of an old Volvo station wagon. I had a reservation at a motel east of Santa Fe, but did not want to eat either at the motel or in Santa Fe. I needed to fuel up at a little berg just south of Santa Fe. Two local police people (one guy cop, one woman cop) were also fueling up and I took a chance. What's to lose? Who else would know where to eat? So I explained my situation -- driving through but would like to stop for a meal here. They were great! Furthermore they sent me to a great little family run Mexican restaurant where I had one fucking helluva a meal, a huge enchilada which had chocolate in the sauce, washed down by dos cervazas. It was wonderful food, gourmet at a little out of the way place, as the cops said.
And yup, both meals were speecie-spicy, from those wonderful New Mexican chilies.
That's just another reason to love New Mexico. Well, that and the mental illness. (So it's got that going for it.)
Well, if I could like it, I would! 
Awesome stories. There are SOOO many excellent places. We used to live in Santa Fe. I would absolutely love to move back to NM.
The chocolate sauce was probably mole' sauce. MMMmmmmm.
==================
And mental illness can be a bit entertaining... As long as the cuisine is good.
Just joking...
My best to you. And have some good NM-Mex food for me. I miss it here in Michigan where they don't know what the word chili means.
zip lock bags. True Chile addicts here
Who'd have guessed? 
Hey at least we tip
=================
That's a GOOD one, lovemydog!
Last edited Tue Apr 28, 2015, 02:39 AM - Edit history (1)
Wisconsin, home of the greatest percentage of African American men locked up, just over one out of every ten (13%).
The proud patron of both Whopping Cough and Leukemia.
We also binge drink like no others (understandable if you are an African American male, have Leukemia, kept awake because of your child's whopping cough, voted for Scott Walker, or are forced to live under Scott Walker).
Now as a poor disabled leukemia survivor forced to live under Teabagger Scott Walker's statewide handout job to give the Koch brothers a morgasm. I'm going to bed wishing I had the money to binge drink, taking small solace in the fact it could be worse; I could also be African American. 
as though I didn't know that already 
I hope it isn't contagious!
