This map of messiest states I came across has me cackling. Once again, Massachusetts gets done dirty. Literally.
There’s a joke to be made here, by the way. A few, actually. But the one I’m thinking of goes like this: “You want a ranking of the messiest states? OK, here you go: No. 1: drunk, No. 2: high, No 3…” You get it. But we’re not talking about states of being here. Or the obvious “No. 2” joke. We’re talking about the United States of America and which states are the cleanest and which states are the messiest.
The map and its accompanying breakdown come courtesy of Mr. Rooter. They called it The U.S. States With the Most Neat Freaks, but it’s really just a ranking of all 50 U.S. states from cleanest to messiest. Actually; scratch that. They weren’t able enough data to rank all 50 states; they had to skip a few. Which is fine, I guess. It just adds to the dubiousness of Massachusetts’ distinction.
The Messiest States: Massachusetts is Dirty at No. 2
Here’s a bit on the methodology: “We surveyed over 3,000 people from 44 states and asked them about their typical cleaning habits. Specifically, we got insight into how clean different rooms in their house currently are, and how many minutes they spend cleaning every week. From there, we assigned values to each answer choice and created an index from cleanest to messiest.”
And that’s how Massachusetts landed at No. 2. The second-messiest state in the union, with a cleanliness score just above 22.93. That score belongs to No. 1, dirty-ass Delaware. Take a look at the full map here, then keep scrolling and I’ll give you what, to my eye, looks like the other 5 states that round out the top of the list. I phrased it that way because there’s no actual rankings. Kinda winging it here.
