It’s the flipside of the cable channel’s annual Top States for Business survey, and it takes into account a host of quality of life factors, including crime rates, environment, health care, childcare, inclusiveness in state laws, reproductive rights and voting rights.
Texas finished at the top, if you want to call it that, followed by Oklahoma and Louisiana. Alabama tied for fourth with South Carolina, just ahead of Missouri. Indiana was the only non-Southern state in top 10. According to the survey, while Alabama has good air quality , it ranks low in voting rights, worker protections, inclusiveness and health, with the fourth-highest rate of premature deaths.It should be noted that Alabama routinely ranks high on economic development lists, such as in June when
chose the state for a Silver Shovel Award, after a record-setting $10.1 billion in capital projects last year.