Heh heh heh.

For the 14th year running, Alabama has ranked near the bottom in a national survey of "livability" that measures each state's quality of life based on factors such as hazardous waste sites and the rates of crime, bankruptcy and unemployment.

Kansas-based Morgan Quitno Press ranked Alabama as the 47th most livable state.

Mississippi ranked 50th for the sixth year in a row. Other states in the bottom five were Tennessee, Louisiana and South Carolina.

The group found New Hampshire the "most livable state." Others in the top ten were Minnesota, Vermont, Iowa, New Jersey, Wyoming, Virginia, Nebraska, Connecticut and South Dakota.

--WTVM (Columbus, Georgia)

Notice something about the five most livable states? Check the map: Numbers 2, 3, 4, and 5 were Democratic states in 2000, and #1 went GOP only because of Nader. And Connecticut's also a Gore state.

The five least livable? All Bush states.