the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Ridgewood NJ, Hate has no home here , well maybe it does the website BESTLIFE has tried to figure out which state is the most disliked by both residents and rivals, we’ve done some digging and crunched the numbers.
They started off by calculating the percentage of the population that has recently moved out of each state. While locals don’t give reviews of their hometowns like they would a restaurant on Yelp, they do tend to vote with their feet, so we compared the population increase or decrease in each state to the national average of 0.6 percent, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
Next, they analyzed a Gallup poll of which citizens felt the most pride in their home states—defined as the percentage of people who agreed with the statement that their state is “the best or one of the best possible states to live.” The states with the least pride ranked higher in our Hatred Index.
Finally, they looked at the findings of illustrator and amateur researcher Matt Shirley, who polled his 320,000 Instagram followers from across the country in 2020 to discover which state they hate the most. We then factored in the population of the states that hated on each state to measure the volume of hostility hurled in every state’s direction. (Some states, Shirley found, had no states that hate them.) These results were compiled into an algorithm that produced the final score of our Hatred Index, wherein the higher the number, the more hated that state is.
In the end, the top 10 most hated states spanned every region, from the East Coast to the South. (Yes, even the Midwest isn’t as nice as you thought.) But one state drew the most vitriol of them all. Read on to see if your home state is loathed or loved as we rank every state, from least hated to most hated. And for more places where locals aren’t the most welcoming, This Is the Unfriendliest State in the U.S.
You guessed it already New Jersey came in number 1 . Rating very low in state pride and very high in the hatred Index .
This is not surprising. I call it the “Real Housewives” paradox. Only the New Jersey iteration of that show had the entire state in its name, because the whole state has been easily mocked for eons (Jersey Shore is another example).
This site being what it is, I am sure you were crushed to see that NJ’s growth wasn’t negative so that you can point your finger at high taxes and the the latest governorship.
Then again, this site being what it is, you will probably say that the growth is all non-desirables (read: non-white), so
BestLife who?
The shows do not represent New Jersey. Please stop. That’s why they’re on cable TV. Please, those shows are all set up and written. It’s portrayed to be screwed up why so you talk about it. And that’s what you’re doing talking about it , Grow up
FINNALY.
We’re #1 in something!!!
We’ll never be #1 in education anymore.
They all saw “Annie,” which disses New Jersey.