Gawker is doing this sometimes funny, sometimes inane ranking of the states based on no criteria whatsoever. It is funny when they are talking about other more horrible states. But not when they talk about my beloved Delaware.
Delaware–the 6th worst state in America. We beat out Utah, Arizona, Alabama, New Jersey and Mississippi.
Often confused for Della Reese’s line of disposable food storage containers, Delaware is proof that you don’t always get it right the first time.
The Good: The First State was first, so I guess that’s bragging rights. If you are a business (and you could be a business! Mittens Romney says that businesses are people, and people read blogs, so you could be a business reading a blog!) you should probably incorporate in Delaware because of their corporation law that makes the state a big tax haven. Delaware is well situated geographically, with lots of coastline that gives us fun/weird towns like Rehoboth Beach, a gayer and more genteel Seaside Heights. You’re also near at least two major cities in Delaware, Philadelphia and Washington D.C., so that’s handy.
The Bad: What even is Delaware?? It’s barely a state at all! If it wasn’t for the crazy business laws (which, full disclosure, Gawker Media takes advantage of), no one would even know it was there. Are there cities? Well, there’s Wilmington, but good grief is that place a heap. And the capital city Dover feels empty and ghost-ridden. Or witch-ridden! Delaware produced America’s first Wiccan-American senatorial candidate, which is pretty embarrassing for them. Frankly it’s surprising that Delaware, a state that doesn’t even have any of its own network TV affiliates, even gets senators. Delaware ranks so low because it’s an afterthought of a state; it’s our first timid, rough attempt at statehood that we’d rather no one see.
See, they pin Christine O’Donnell on us. She is from New Jersey.