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[–] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 16 points 6 hours ago (3 children)

I'm surprised Texas is so high, but I'm not surprised that NJ is low, isn't there an old meme to the effect that New Jersey smells bad/ is full of toxic industrial chemicals or something?

[–] wildncrazyguy138@fedia.io 5 points 4 hours ago

Texas may have some crap politics statewide, but the major cities are top notch and Hill Country is a national treasure, same goes for the brisket and the old style country music.

One of these days I’ll get down to Big Bend and up to the mountains in the west.

I recently got down to Austin and was lucky enough to see the bats fly out from the bridge downtown. Millions of bats, was a sight to behold.

There is! They even joke about it in Futurama.

[–] blarghly@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Conservatives are more tribal, and will vote favorably for "their" states and unfavorably for "liberal" states with more consistency than liberals. Hence conservatives' like of Texas and dislike of Cali shines through, while a liberal would probably think that there are some things to like about Texas and dislike about Cali, and get washed out in the data.