re: Is Arkansas better or worse than Alabama as a state?

I’ve lived in both states. Northwest Arkansas is a great place to live. Huntsville isn’t bad. Alabama has a nice little stretch of beach.

For the most part, both states are full of uneducated, dumb people that have no interest in bettering themselves, and most of the cities and towns are absolute dumps. That description also applies to most of Oklahoma (where I currently live), much of Texas, all of Louisiana, nearly all of Mississippi, much of Tennessee, much of Kentucky (east Kentucky may be worse than sub-Sahara Africa), much of South Carolina, most of Georgia (where I’m building a house), and some of Florida. Even though I was born and prefer to live in the South, the SEC states are generally shitty places to raise a family. But hey, taxes are low, bass are big, food is the best in the world, and the weather is usually nice, so there’s that.