Coolest state, not counting your own, is...?

[Bucky]

What state is the coolest state in the union? To depress any chauvanism, you can't vote for a state in which you currently live or were born in. Obviously I'll accept write-ins, but I've taken the liberty of listing the only right choices.

(NB: because they failed to garner any vote atall, I'm deferring to the crown and substituting late entrants Oklahoma and Minnesota in lieu of Wyoming and Texas. Sorry 'bout that, Willie. Sorry 'bout that, Jackson Hole.

Also, I've changed the incorrect term "jingoism" for the correct term "chauvanism" because words matter, dammit)

[flamingyouth]

1. Um, where's California?

:shrug:

[theivoryqueen]

2. my thoughts exactly!

[Xithras]

5. Yeah, what kind of loser list is this?

California INVENTED cool! :hippie:

[Bucky]

6. Please note: this poll was designed for the current century

California hasn't been cool since they cancelled "CHiPs"

[Beaverhausen]

9. Hey! What do you mean? We have that cool governator

oh yeah...nevermind...

[sundog]

22. I'm with ya on the Cali thing...

especially Northern -- anything from Santa Cruz north...

[trumad]

Alaska of course....

ALASKA'S average temperature in July is 52, compared to Texas which is 83, the highest of all the 50 states.

[Nite Owl]

3. Vermont

Love the place. Great people and beautiful.

[welshTerrier2]

20. absolutely !!

i love Vermont ...

[Maccagirl]

33. Vermonters were smart enough to elect

Howard Dean=that's enough to rate them. I really want to visit some autumn. I live in Ohio-and I apologize.

[Az]

36. Great state but

Visit the Teddy Bear factory and the IceCream place and you are pretty much done for cool factors. Hit Burlington and they didn't even have an anime store. I cannot stress how much a negative that is on coolness points.

Vermont is cool. Just not the coolest.

[tridim]

4. Texas?

That's a joke, right?

Texas is the only state I've ever visited that I wanted to leave the same day I got there. Austin doesn't count.

[Worst Username Ever]

7. Given these lame choices, I choose Rhode Island

It's not the size that counts.

[Endangered Specie]

8. How does a state that cant COUNT...

get on the list?

[Bucky]

12. 2 reasons: Claude Pepper and Ft Walton Beach

Also Earnest Hemmingway's favorite fishing spot. See, it ain't all about the chads in real life.

[Tosca]

14. Florida

The multiple-personalities state. So whacko, it explodes the definition of whacko...

[Tosca]

10. Maine

Really cool, especially in winter.

[OnionPatch]

11. I guess it wouldn't be much of a contest

if California was included anyway. ;) :headbang:

[Amaya]

13. Maine

nt

[Township75]

15. WTF?! Rhode Island?

That has to be from people that live there.

When I finished my undergrad degree, I took a job in Rhode Island. The company I worked for just went through a mass hiring of new employees, mostly from out of state.

Within 2 years almost all of us had left. No one liked that state, in fact most despised it.

[Momgonepostal]

16. My 8 year old wants to move to RI

I asked her why, and she said, "Because it's so small, terrorists would have a tough time hitting it if they tried to bomb it."

I didn't have the heart to break the news to her. :D

[Bombtrack]

18. Massachusetts should have annexed Rhode Island a long time ago.

[Bombtrack]

17. Florida and Hawaii are the only states that belong on the list

Living in Alaska or Oklahoma or Kentucky would be like living in another, much shittier, country. Sorry because I know that's bound to offend people who have no big choice in living in those places and I'm a complete jackass for not having been to any of them but I'm well read.

Top 10 coolest states that I'm not from(which is MA), aproximately.
The only reason I don't include NY State higher is that only Long Island and the city are parts I'd ever want to live
1 California
2 Florida
3 Connecticut
4 Arizona
5 Hawaii
6 New York
7 Texas
8 New Jersey
9 North Carolina
10 Nevada

[mede8er]

19. Where's Colorado.........

Live in Florida, born in Cali.......

[AlFrankenFan]

21. Minnesota!!!!!! n/t

[Padraig18]

23. New Mexico!

Santa Fe is where I'd ultimately like to wind up.

:D

[sundog]

24. Northern & Southern NM

are two different universes -- I'm in Southern NM & it is hardcore freeper country... this is a very strange state, if you ever move here you'll know what I'm talking about

I've been here about 8 years

[devilgrrl]

25. Vermont. VERMONT!!!!

What's the matter with you people? :silly:

[Kurt Remarque]

27. vermont! but don't tell anyone

[amazona]

26. the heck?

The coolest state is Louisiana but since we can't vote for states we've lived in or were born in, that lets out most of the southern states. What is left? Outside the south, they are either not cool at all or trying too hard.

Unless you mean temperature-wise. In which case, I'll let Maine, Minnesota, and Alaska fight it out.

Even Maxim magazine (not cool) recently voted Louisiana the coolest of the 50 states in its battle of the 50 states issue -- or did they send a different version of that rag to every state? Hmmm.

[NightTrain]

28. Where's New York?

The City is awesome and the Adirondacks are gorgeous!

[marigold20]

29. Montana

..

[-..__...]

30. Wyoming

With my own 10,000 acre spread.

[ironflange]

31. I live in a province, not a state

But of the states I've been to, Oregon is the big winner. The coast, the volcanoes, Crater Lake, the beer, everything. It's a great place, though I may not get back until the eclipse comes through.

[JohnLocke]

32. Oklahoma?? WTC??

:wtf:

[chaska]

34. SOUTH CAROLINA!?!?!?! What the hell's wrong with ya'll?

I'm from there. And I'm damned glad not to be there now. Awful place.

[JohnLocke]

35. I vote for New York.

[chaska]

37. I second that. Great place - the whole state.

[JohnLocke]

40. Indeed.

[chaska]

38. Vermont is wonderful. Virginia is great if you spray for freepers.

[AlFrankenFan]

39. Agreed regarding VA n/t