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Today in questions you didn't ask but are damn well getting the answers to, a Public Policy Polling survey ranked the 50 U.S. states by popularity among voters nationwide. And while Hawaii placing No. 1 in this little popularity contest wasn't a shock, that the Golden State ranked last was.

Though a serious polling outfit, Public Policy Polling occasionally has some fun by asking oddball questions. These are the folks who, for example, told us that God only had a 52 percent approval rating. This time respondents have been asked, over the past four months, "Do you have a favorable or unfavorable opinion of the state of [ ]?" Responses for all 50 states, which we plotted in the chart above, were released today.

Some highlights: Tropical Hawaii had the highest margin of favorability with 54 percent of voters saying they liked the state and only 10 percent disliking it (+44). It was followed by a distant second Colorado (+35), then Tennessee (+34) and South Dakota (+34), and then Virginia (+32). Voters only had a negative impression of five states: Utah (-3), Mississippi (-6), New Jersey (-7), Illinois (-10), and last and yes, least, California (-17).