r/AskReddit 29d ago

What is the worst US state and why?

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u/smurfe 28d ago

I moved from Illinois to Louisiana (the Land of Lincoln) in 1998. I live in South Louisiana outside B.R. toward N.O. They are racist fucks here but they are nowhere, anywhere, no way, as racist as Central and Southern Illinois where I grew up at. I have three adult children that still live there and my oldest son is one of the biggest Trump-loving KKK-loving racists I have ever met in my life. I haven't spoken to him in 10 years. He is nowhere an isolated individual racist there.

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u/Cajun_B 28d ago

Ah, Livingston Parish I assume?

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u/smurfe 28d ago

LOL, you are very close. I am next door in Ascension Parish. When I first moved here I did live in the French Settlement / Head of Island area by the Moonlight Inn for close to a year. That area was/is racist central and still not as bad as the 99.999999% area of Illinois I moved from.

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u/Cajun_B 28d ago

I moved from Livingston Parish to DuPage County about 17 years ago...sill go down there about once a year but I've noticed the trips are much shorter as time goes by. Nothing changes down there and it makes me sad.

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u/smurfe 28d ago

I am from well south of there. I was born in Mattoon and grew up in Shelby County about 30 miles south of Decatur.