Yep. There’s a reason why I felt like I was living in hostile territory when I was in West Michigan (and my heart goes out to all of you who are still fighting the good fight). Not that I’ll rule out moving back there someday, but sometimes it’s nice to imagine what it would be like to live in one of those states that got an A. Like when I’m starting a family, or, I don’t know, maybe just being a woman.

And while we’re on the subject of maps and rankings, Mapping Our Rights: Nagivating Discrimination against Women, Men, and Families is another interactive report on human rights in the United States. It was put together by Ipas, the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, and SisterSong and includes a greater diversity of important factors, such as the right to gay marriage and the legal status of midwifery. The results are thus more complicated, but tell a roughly comparable story. Ranked from 1 (most favorable) to 50 (most hostile) we have:

I don’t know what they’re drinking up there in Washington state, but whatever it is, I wish they’d share it with the rest of the nation. I’d say they were just living too close to Canada, but then again so are the Michiganders and that doesn’t seem to have helped.