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The States of Our Union ... Are Not All Strong

Last year, Politico Magazine heralded President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address with an appraisal of the state of the states of the union, which we found, contra that favorite presidential declaration, were not all “strong.” Despite the disgruntled response from those states that ended up at the bottom of the list (including a letter to the editor from the governor of Mississippi himself), we decided once again to run the latest data through our highly scientific, incontrovertible ranking process—inspired, after all, by a 1931 H.L. Mencken magazine series delicately called “The Worst American State.”

Our second annual ranking.
By MARGARET SLATTERY January 20, 2015
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/01/the-states-of-our-union-are-not-all-strong-114395.html?ml=lb_5#.VMKchivF98E?ml=m_mm


We ranked all 50, from fabulous to failed
By MARGARET SLATTERY January 24, 2014
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/01/states-of-our-union-are-not-all-strong-102547_full.html#.VMONCS4e2MV