What is the most screwed up state in the Union?

[AldoLeopold]

97. Thanks for understanding my rage

No - probably not #1. But the state does lag in a number of key indicators including education and healthcare. My biggest gripe with TX is that its essentially become a Republican model of an ideal economy. Very little upward mobility and most wealth concentrated in the hands of a few. Its chief export, as my TX history prof used to say, is cheap land, and that's allowed it, combined with no state income tax, to become economically powerful. Its allowed a number of corps to open up cheap operations paying low wages and screwing over even white collar workers en masse. Very little state regulation, despite the fact that they have the largest state EPA in the country...though I'm still clueless as to what they do to keep themselves occupied aside from gently caressing the oil industry in the night and tell them its going to be okay.

Austin is cool - but less cool than it was. DFW just sucks bad. BAD. Kill it with fire.

That all aside, I just don't like TX culture, TX weather, TX topography, TX accents - well - you get the point. Now my whole family has settled there (that's right, I'm the only dem in my entire family - extended and otherwise with the lone exception of my aunt who is a movie actress in LA), and they all want me to move back. I told them that I will, but only when I have an army behind me and I conquer and pacify the state of Texas. Then there will be pogroms and purges. Stalin style.

Sorry, again. I'm texabitter.