There’s Always California

By GAIL COLLINS
NYT

Recently, I wrote a column asking whether Illinois or New York had the most awful political culture. Illinois won, eliciting many cries of reader outrage.

“What about Texas?”

“As a resident of New Jersey, I was insulted that you omitted the Garden State from this article. Why do New Yorkers always underrate us?”

“Oh, come on! Winner hands-down is Florida!”

“Pound for pound, neither New York or Illinois can touch Rhode Island.”

“There is a little Yankee ethnocentrism going on here. Surely South Carolina ..

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