Your favorite of the following Appalachian and Ozarkian states

[TDAS04]

Vote.

[Lambsbread]

Tennessee by a country mile

[MarkD]

Misery, of course, where I've lived about 80% of my life
For the last month or so, I have been visiting a half-dozen attractions, four that I have been to before, but a long time ago, and two that I have not seen before: Meramec Caverns, Elephant Rocks State Park, Tom Sauk Mountain (the highest point in Missouri), Johnson's Shut-ins State Park, Bonne Terre Mine Tour, and Onondaga Cave State Park.

[Mr. Smith]

Tinny-see

[America Needs a 13-6 Progressive SCOTUS]

The 1 without the death penalty.

[dead0man]

there are pros and cons for all of them.  TN>MO>KY>AR>WV

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

Missourah for reasons fairly specific to myself. When I was fairly small, I was a passenger on family road trips down there to visit my paternal grandparents, who bought a schoolhouse in Cabool following a windfall from a lawsuit. Next to the stone schoolhouse, in their yard, was a sandbox with a shovel that had an orange blade. It felt to me then like an "adult" shovel, though in retrospect it was still far too small and light to be a real one. The schoolhouse in a Cabool was where my brother and I met our cousins from Wisconsin and Washington. Down the road was a farm where there were cats. At night, we heard the crickets.

My dad's side of the family's roots in that area extend a bit farther back than that, though I'm unclear on the details; over the many years before the 1990s, my progenitors hopped around the Midwest quite a lot. As a young adult, I took two trips to St. Louis for my fraternity's January/February conference.

[Progressive Pessimist]

Tennessee, begrudgingly, since it at least seems to have the most appealing major urban areas.

[Santander]

Kentucky has the most redeeming features, although it obviously has a lot of baggage:

the Eastern part of the state is like West Virginia's deformed cousin. Horrible Dixiecrats who always vote straight ticket Republican like Santander and Kim Davis (thankfully both Republicans now), racist coal miners who blame the black guy for all their misfortunes despite the fact that the industry has clearly been declining for decades, poor whites who want to take government assistance away from "welfare queens" (aka blacks) in the inner cities while still keeping their food stamps and disability benefits, because unlike Shaniqua in inner city Chicago, "they earned it." Etc. etc.