{"id":420861,"date":"2021-04-14T09:58:28","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T13:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=420861"},"modified":"2021-04-14T09:58:31","modified_gmt":"2021-04-14T13:58:31","slug":"poll-washington-d-c-worst-place-in-country-americans-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/poll-washington-d-c-worst-place-in-country-americans-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Poll: Washington, D.C. Worst Place In Country, Americans Say"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpoll-washington-d-c-worst-place-in-country-americans-say%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=420861&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-1822.jpeg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>A new poll has found that Americans believe that Washington, D.C., is the worst place to live in the country.<\/p>\n<p>With a sky-high crime rate and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.investopedia.com\/articles\/personal-finance\/080916\/top-10-most-expensive-cities-us.asp\">fifth-highest<\/a> cost of living in the country, people surveyed by <a href=\"https:\/\/today.yougov.com\/topics\/travel\/articles-reports\/2021\/04\/13\/us-states-ranked-best-worst-according-americans\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouGov<\/a> put the nation\u2019s capital at the bottom.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe asked people to choose the better of two states in a series of head-to-head matchups. States are rated based on their \u2018win percentage,\u2019 that is: how often that state won the head-to-head matchup when it was one of the two states shown,\u201d said the pollster.<\/p>\n<p>Hawaii took the top spot by winning 69% of its matchups and Colorado took second place with 65% of matches won.&nbsp;Virginia (64%) came in third while Nevada took the fourth-favorite spot (61%), followed by North Carolina.<\/p>\n<p>Florida came in sixth with a 61% win-rate, followed by Arizona (60%) at seventh, New York (59%) at eighth. In ninth and tenth place were Georgia (58%) and Texas (58%), respectively.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe two lowest-rated states were Alabama (38%) and Mississippi (38%), which often rank low in other assessments of income and health care access. Both are Southern states, and in fact almost all the bottom ten states are situated in either the South, with Arkansas (39%) and Kentucky (42%) joining Alabama and Mississippi close to the bottom, or Midwest, including Iowa (39%), Indiana (40%), South Dakota (40%), Missouri (42%), and Kansas (42%),\u201d the pollster wrote.<\/p>\n<p>D.C. came in last place, winning just over a third of its match-ups.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWashington, D.C., which was also included in the survey, scores worst of all, winning only 35% of its matchups. Americans might be rejecting the political divisiveness it stands for\u2014or could be protesting that it is, in fairness, not a state (despite efforts to change that),\u201d the pollsters wrote.<\/p>\n<p>The poll surveyed 1,211 people between March 12 and March 15. The margin of error is plus or minus 5.4 percentage points.<\/p>\n<p>In another survey, Canada was selected as the best country in which to live.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe North American country ranked first in both the <u data-rte2-sanitize=\"underline\">Quality of Life<\/u>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<u data-rte2-sanitize=\"underline\">Social Purpose<\/u> subrankings, meaning that it is seen as a stable and safe society in which individuals can develop and prosper, and is open, fair and equitable,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usnews.com\/news\/best-countries\/articles\/us-news-unveils-best-countries-rankings\">according<\/a> to U.S. News &amp; World Report\u2019s annual rankings released on Tuesday. \u201cMost of the countries that ranked highest for 2021 come from Western Europe. But Australia, New Zealand and Japan \u2013 which is ranked No. 2 overall \u2013 also appeared in the top 10.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. came in sixth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe United States, coming off a contentious presidential election and now entering its second year of the pandemic that has killed more than 500,000 people in the country alone, moved up one spot in the rankings this year but just barely missed the top five. The Best Countries survey was conducted after the U.S. presidential election,\u201d the survey found.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new poll has found that Americans believe that Washington, D.C., is the worst place to live in the country.With a sky-high crime rate and the fifth-highest cost of living &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2312154,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-1822.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Poll: Washington, D.C. 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