What is the worst US state and why?

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Mississippi is so shit that Arkansas' unofficial state motto is "#49 in everything, thanks Mississippi!"

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That's the joke in New Mexico too.

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It has it's own wikipedia page.

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• Territories of the United States sometimes have rankings worse than Mississippi; for example, in 2018 Mississippi had a poverty rate of 19.8%, while Puerto Rico had a poverty rate of 43.1%;[18][19] American Samoa had a poverty rate of 65% in 2017.[20]*

Hahahhahaha they have to compare them to territories.