attackfish

I guess Alabama has that big red X on its flag for a reason. I don't get how Southern states can somehow think their way is better when they do worse on just about every marker of life quality there is, from infant mortality (http://www.americashealthrankings.org/AL/IMR/2011) to literacy (https://nces.ed.gov/naal/estimates/StateEstimates.aspx) to health (http://www.americashealthrankings.org/rankings), life expectancy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_life_expectancy), even divorce (http://edition.cnn.com/2011/LIVING/08/25/divorce.bible.belt/). (Obviously there's nothing wrong with people divorcing, it's just laughable for politicians and preachers to wrap themselves in the "family values" mantle and demonize the "East Coast liberals.") And they want the rest of the country to look like them? Ugh.