States that are ugly, conservative, homophobic, culturally sterile or some combination thereof.

Louisiana gets a bye due to New Orleans, but Georgia does not.  It’s a big heap of crazy.  Utah and Wyoming are so beautiful they can go as cuckoo bananas as they want politically and it won’t matter.  Florida and Pennsylvania are too awful for words.  Pennsylvania just looks like a spent briquette, pretending to be some kind of keystone.  I dislike Connecticut, too, but for different reasons.  I should probably include Texas and New Jersey, but I have odd soft spots for each.  Full disclosure: I have never been to Mississippi…but, come on.  Oh, and South Carolina neither, but they have “In God We Trust” on their license plates and that’s just scary.

The only Awful Belt state bordered entirely by other Awful Belt states is Alabama.  Totes apprope.