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Net Favorability of U.S. States (media.piefed.world)

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[–] neatchee@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

What are the chances Washington gets dinged for having the same name as DC?

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

To give them some credit, Americans know basic facts about their own geography, at least. Washington ends up with roughly the same favourability as Oregon here, and the two states do seem awfully similar.

Now, knowing that DC is actually full of ordinary, mostly black people, or that Montana isn't very different from North Dakota? Maybe not. That's beyond just map facts.

[–] neatchee@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

Seattle and Portland do make up the PNW hippie culture, which I'm sure plenty of respondents find unfavorable