I just found Al Doyle's article on Lew Rockwell entitled States To Avoid. Although there is little on the Rockwell site to appreciate, this article makes interesting points as to how some states are so much worse than others.

This would be a particularly good read for residents of those states.  They become numb to the to what they must put up with. This was just reinforced for me this week by a friend who had just moved from Massachusetts to Kentucky. Only now is it clear to him how much of what he put up with was state imposed.