North Carolina is the worst state in the union and it isn't even close. Nothing is worse than a population of people who have every opportunity in the world and still willingly, knowingly, consistently squander it all on self-absorbed idiocy.

At least Mississippi and Alabama have the excuse of low economic opportunity to fall back on. NC has gorgeous nature, a great public university system, is located along the Atlantic corridor, and yet they still insist on being politically regressive and culturally hostile at every possibility. I don't say this in ignorance, I've regretfully spent plenty of time there. Don't ask me what part I stay in to tell me your part isn't as bad, because the part you live in sucks too. The whole state is vile.