PA 10th Most Liked State In The Nation...And NJ Is The Most Disliked

By KARA SEYMOUR and JUSTIN HEINZE

Are you Jersey proud?

The rest of the country doesn’t seem to understand why.

A new survey by YouGov ranks New Jersey as the least liked state in the nation.

“New Jersey is the only state in the country which people tend to have a negative opinion of,” YouGov said in its summary.

According to YouGov’s findings, 40 percent of Americans have a negative opinion of New Jersey, the highest of any of the 50 states.

Pennsylvania, on the other hand, was ranked the 10th most liked state.

Additionally, the market research firm had some insight into New Jersey residents.

“People in New Jersey are unusually likely to take a hardnosed attitude towards life. They are unusually likely to say that they ‘seek out challenging situations’ and that they are willing to sacrifice their leisure time in order to get ahead in their career. Life isn’t all challenge and work in New Jersey, however, as they’re also unusually likely compared to Americans in the rest of the country to say that they enjoying going out drinking in bars,” You Gov said in the survey summary.

Alabama was ranked as the second least popular state in the United States.

Not surprisingly, Hawaii is the most popular state in America, with 67 percent of Americans having a positive view of it.

Montana followed in a close second as the next most liked state.

“Despite its relative heft New Jersey is in many ways the epitome of Northeastern suburbia, with much of the state’s population living in the suburbs of two of the nation’s largest cities (New York and Philadelphia) which happen to be in other states. The popular image of New Jersey often falls somewhere between the MTV show Jersey Shore, HBO’s award winning mafia drama The Sopranos and the chemical plants and gray industrial landscape stretched along I-95 that inspired much of the work of Bruce Springsteen,” YouGov says in its summary.

Click here to read more of the findings.