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- oboy, on 11/16/2008, -6/+51West Virginia. Mountain Mama.
Home of "Obama's a Muslim, now where's my chili dog?" - oo7evan, on 11/17/2008, -4/+45Compare states that have highest republican voter percentage.
Compare states that have highest obese percentage.
But, hey, they don't want universal health care. - inactive, on 11/17/2008, -6/+39west virginia: 2 million people, 2 last names.
- gumby05, on 11/17/2008, -0/+22They're talking about West Virginia not west Virginia.
- TheFinaleofSeem, on 11/17/2008, -4/+24Good. The fatties will drive up the cost of universal health care.
- TommyTikal, on 11/16/2008, -3/+15Tuck and roll West Virginia!
- algaeturd, on 11/17/2008, -3/+13I imagine just about any city in WV to be a hotbed for unhealthy people. People who make low incomes eat crappy food and aren't very well educated. That's no surprise. Add all that up and you get one of the least healthy states in the nation. Cheap food = ***** food most of the time and ***** food will make you sick and obese eventually. Another problem is the state government. Think of the Bush administration, multiply that over 20 years and that's what WV is the product of. The current governor is a democrat but if you told him a city in his state was the least healthy in the country, he'd probably try to work that into the state flag somehow. I mean, they changed the state motto to 'Open for Business.' A ***** state with one of the lowest per capita incomes and that's the state motto?
Jesus Christ, that tells you everything you need to know about the state for the most part: None of it really makes any sense. It's run like ***** and has been for a long, long time and therefore it's the product of ***** for the most part.
Good people of WV, don't take offense. Everything can change. With time, effort and education, all things are possible. - rz8472, on 11/17/2008, -0/+9Well its clear that Mississippi spreads the fat around. Damn socialists...
- asgardshill, on 11/17/2008, -2/+11west virginia: 2 million people, 20000 teeth, 2 last names.
TFIFY - mannyfreshh, on 11/17/2008, -6/+15That's Real America for ya!
- HalcyonSskyler, on 11/17/2008, -0/+8Another resident of Morgantown, WV here.
It's all about the lack of jobs. I drove to class this morning listening to the local NPR station and these results came up. One of the biggest reasons cited for the healthiest city was the availability of good tech jobs and incentives for healthy living. I can tell you from growing up in WVa and preparing to enter graduate school in Computer Science that once I graduate there is no chance of me being able to work anywhere in the state except academia.
What you get in Huntington is the what's left over when most people with the intelligence or opportunity to rise above the stereotypes that Digg has so tactfully pointed out.
Also, why the hell does Appalachia get some sort of free pass for what would be considered hate speech against other groups? Does the lack of a difference in race really what keeps people saying the same things about Louisiana or Alabama? Hell, a greater percentage of this state voted Obama than Alabama, Kentucky, Tennessee, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, or Alaska. - sodade, on 11/17/2008, -2/+10The whole ***** point is that these fat ***** god and gun clingers think that they are better than black people (at their cultural worst). They are not and thus deserve our scorn and ridicule. I don't know what you deserve for trying to champion them, but it ain't a gold star.
- sodade, on 11/17/2008, -0/+7http://digg.com/2008_us_elections/Red_State_Social ...
Yep. Like we said. ***** Lincoln. - threedaysatsea, on 11/17/2008, -0/+7All of these negative comments are really striking a nerve with me.
The majority of my family is from coal country... Ona, WV, and Beckley, WV, to be exact, and yes they are unhealthy and intolerant, not to mention uneducated - my grandfather dropped out of /middle school/ to work in the mines - but they are certainly people. Real, live people with years of poverty and sickness on their consciences.
Do you really blame them for being afraid of outsiders, can you blame them for their unhealthy diets and habits? Christ, the last time I was in Ona, to get fresh vegetables out of season you had to drive forty-five minutes to the Wal-Mart. If it is snowing, which it does quite frequently out there, you can pretty much forget about it.
Honestly, it's not as much of a choice to live like this as most of you might think. Have some empathy please. It's more of a sad sort of situation, where a large portion of the population is trapped in the rubble of the collapsed coal economy, than something that they want and welcome. - dissolutionman, on 11/17/2008, -0/+7That title belongs to Burlington, Vermont.
http://www.nhregister.com/articles/2008/11/17/news ... - Gerz1219, on 11/17/2008, -0/+7Yeah, but the local "Democratic" party is full of corrupt Dixiecrats who never got the memo that they were supposed to become corrupt Republicans.
- Wolfboy, on 11/17/2008, -0/+6extracted - or they fell out. Not everyone can afford to go to the dentist.
- DaFunk, on 11/17/2008, -1/+7http://www.phxhomes.com/graphics/US_Foreclosure_ma ...
Not really seeing it... - tonage, on 11/17/2008, -1/+7No matter what kind of people live in WV, they are hundreds of times better than a bunch of scumbag Diggers, sitting in front of their computers trying to put down yet another group of people. Pitiful. I wonder how many of you are overweight yourselves as you sit there and bash a state you know nothing about? I bet most of you think we are talking about the western part of Virginia anyway. Morons.
- HamSandwich, on 11/17/2008, -1/+7Don't take offense? You're kidding right?
WV is not a hotbed for unhealthy, uneducated people. The problem is the lack of good paying jobs. The WV economy has yet to recover from the downturn in the coal industry. The state government compounds the problem by taxing to the point of driving businesses away. In the end, most of the promising young people get good educations (in WV) but then have to leave the state for a good job... which leaves only the fat, uneducated, and unmotivated people. - edmoney90, on 11/16/2008, -5/+11Strangely, that's not very surprising
- Dumbledorito, on 11/17/2008, -3/+8Poor Houston. Now all it has left to print in the tourism brochures is pictures of the occasional pipeline explosion.
- Ozman712, on 11/17/2008, -0/+5I have to comment here. I am from Huntington and I think that this article does not really do us justice. Sure there is an obesity problem in the state, but there are obesity problems all over the southern states. Believe it or not Huntington is not a little town with barefoot people running around yelling "yippie!" all the time. We are basically tied with Charleston for the largest city (50,000 residents, I know it isn't big but for a state population of 1.8 million not bad). We have all the normal big brand stores (Starbucks, Best Buy, etc.) We also have Marshall University (I am a student there) which is a nationally recognized institution both for academics and athletics. For the internet types, we have an Amazon call center downtown. I just don't want you guys unfairly stereotyping this state. Believe me I have been in the backwoods of WV and seen things that are right in line with the stereotype, but Huntington really isn't like that. Could it be better? Absolutely. And for the record, the idiot mayor of ours that is quoted in the AP article just got defeated in the election, so I think he is a little bitter toward the residents of this city.
- TheDreadDiggerD, on 11/17/2008, -0/+5Looking over these comments, I'm happy to see that you can still generalize a particular state's population to a stereotype.
- coyne740, on 11/17/2008, -1/+5Sorry, I do take offense. I live in northern WV and have a Master's degree and probably bring in a bit more a year (between work, investments, etc) a year than most in other states. I live in WV, but commute to Pittsburgh, due to the cost of living in WV being so low compared to the surrounding PA areas. I know plenty of people that are uneducated idiot rednecks in the area I live in, but I also know people that could give me a challenge in Trivial Pursuit. So before you start speaking about what you don't know, maybe you should educate yourself.
- resry, on 11/17/2008, -1/+5I was born and raised in Huntington, and, man, the article really nails it. There's some strange cultural attitude there that dentists and doctors are your enemy. They've been brainwashed by education, and now they're out to take away your god-given right to eat fat and smoke. Folks really identify with their favorite self-destructive behaviors.
It's embarrassing. I realized there was no god by the time I was ten, yet it never occurred to me that dentists weren't "the enemy" until I was twenty-five or so. Culture can be a dangerous thing. - zwendkos, on 11/17/2008, -4/+8damn, I need to get into the denture business in that town...
- NoozeHound, on 11/17/2008, -2/+6 - that doesn't even make sense. Which is the worstest edjukated too while you'r eat it!
- HamSandwich, on 11/17/2008, -1/+5You obviously don't know anything about West Virginia. They vote republican for president, but the state government is heavily democratic.
- phrawgh, on 11/17/2008, -3/+7There is a "city" in West Virginia?
- junkstore, on 11/17/2008, -0/+4The article directly beneath this one on the front page is called "OM NOM NOM".
- TheUngod, on 11/17/2008, -0/+3You should have researched your argument before posting it. You're totally back-asswards.
- solstice21, on 11/17/2008, -5/+8Almost half of their 65 year olds have had all of their natural teeth extracted...
- wvudmac, on 11/17/2008, -1/+4As a resident of Morgantown,WV and a student at WVU, I say Huntington is the ***** of West Virginia. All the crap of WV exits through Huntington to KY. The overall state of WV is full of rednecks and idiots just alike but we don't have the market cornered on it. I read in the paper that a lady in GA was quoted as saying that she wanted Obama assassinated and others burned crosses in the yard of an Obama supporter. I wish my state would have voted for Obama like I did.
- EerFoolWVU, on 11/17/2008, -1/+3Everybody gets into Marshall, they don't turn people away.
- rogue780, on 11/17/2008, -1/+3those damn bitter Americans
- inactive, on 11/17/2008, -1/+3Which is the most healthiest city in US?
- inactive, on 11/17/2008, -0/+2easily explained by the fact that they're a poor city and bad food is cheap.
- threedaysatsea, on 11/18/2008, -0/+2I'm not trying to be an apologist here - certainly there has to be some form of responsibility taken, and yes, it does deserve to be on the backs of those bearing these difficulties; it is their stubbornness that has perpetuated these issues. The difficulty here, though, is that it is their own stubbornness that, for the most part, defines their culture. I appreciate your comment, emazur. I was asking, simply, for a bit more benevolence from the other diggers here - these are people after all, they are in a hard place, and it's hard for them to see that it is their actions (or unactions) that is causing such strife.
I just hope that others may know people they love dearly to be so stuck in their self-destructiveness - be it with addictions, habits, or abrasive personalities - and find it difficult to tell them to just "snap out of it".... It is the same paradigm here. - ArmenTamzarian, on 11/17/2008, -1/+3You really miss the point of the entire article. I'm sure you think you're a good progressive person, but you comment is so far out of scope it is laughable. The article (if you even read it) is about health problems in one of the poorest states in the nation, not about racial tolerance - which is a problem in every state, not just West Virginia. Would you, for example, bring up the overwhelming homophobia in the black community if the article were about heart disease and obesity in those communities? Would you then suggest African-Americans deserve our scorn and ridicule?
Your attempt to justify your own bigotry astounds me. - emazur, on 11/17/2008, -0/+2If I was stuck in poverty and sickness I could either continue to wallow, or look to the outside and outsiders to see if I might find a way out. And frozen or canned veggies are a fine alternative to fresh, and they are cheap as well. I just saw a coupon in my Sunday paper to mix-and-match 3 canned veggies for $1.
And I saw one person in that article comment on how he was more concerned about the economy than health. Doesn't anyone consider all the worker productivity lost due to poor health habits? Or money lost to the health industry that could otherwise be put to creating real businesses?
And really, 30 mins of efficient exercise 3 times a week can produce an extremely healthy individual. Even a fraction of that can do wonders to one's health. But it seems everyone would rather keep doing what they're doing and keep getting what they're getting.
So no, from my point of view they do have a choice, but they keep making the wrong choice.
BTW, I'm not trying to sound mean here, and I do appreciate your comment. But seeing people (I'm not talking about you) shirk off a downward spiral that continues to grow and consume more people with it is something that has never sat well with me. - Caulfield, on 11/17/2008, -1/+3What are they lining up for?
- DaFunk, on 11/17/2008, -1/+2bobcat...seems fairly even to me, and that was my point. Yeah, there are a lot of states that voted for Obama that are also "red" on the map, but he got more states and also the more populated states, so that makes sense. You have some states that went to McCain that are much less populated, but the population centers, like most population centers, are also red. Then you have states like Tennessee or Arizona that are just plain red. Anyway, my point was more that there really is not much of a correlation, at least as far as mortgages go, in which states went to whom.
- bobcat7407, on 11/17/2008, -0/+1Looking at the two maps it doesn't seem even to me. The Southwest, except AZ, the NW, the SE, NE, and central around IL and MI are the areas that are red on your map and, with a few exceptions like Tennessee and Arizona, are mainly Obama country. You're right that it is mainly the population centers that are red, that makes sense. It's also the places with the high populations like NY and CA that vote Democrat, Texas is an exception more than a rule.
- quaxon, on 11/17/2008, -1/+2All those states you mentioned including your own state are all ***** backwards fly over states. I wish this country would break off into two already. You got the coastal states keeping the country from sinking into a third-world country, then you got all the fly-over redneck states controlling our morality and social laws and trying to tell us how to live. ***** off.
- elliotys, on 11/19/2008, -0/+1OM NOM NOM NOM NOM NOM.
- Mujokan, on 11/17/2008, -0/+1I have met the guy who made that video on another forum. I think he might be schizophrenic.
- wvudmac, on 11/17/2008, -2/+3I would respond with anger but I am too happy I just ate a whole wedding cake cause I married my 500lbs sister. YEEEEEEEEHAAAAAAWWWW!!!
- Opiate, on 11/17/2008, -1/+2Queue the haters.
- inactive, on 11/17/2008, -0/+1So, I don't see a problem - evolution in action. Just make sure as a non-gravitationally challenged consumer you don't pay for the lifestyle choices of the obese - get an insurance that charges WAY extra for clients who are bloated.
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