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You’ve seen tons of state-by-state rankings out there, judging all of America’s states by their beer, coffee, night lives, farmers markets, restaurants, you name it.

Well, lifestyle website Thrillist.com decided this week to determine, for once and for all, which states are the best and which ones are the worst. Like, overall.

Thrillist calls it the “definitive and final ranking” of all U.S. states, and of course, it’s entirely subjective. People in at least 25 of the states will undoubtedly be angry that their homes aren’t getting the respect they deserve.

Seems tough to call Florida the worst state in the country, but maybe they’re still holding the 2000 presidential election over the state’s head.

Mississippi (No. 45) ahead of Utah (No. 46)? West Virginia (No. 36) ahead of Rhode Island (No. 38)? Those seem like stretches.

New Jersey up at No. 21? Beating the likes of states like North Carolina (No. 22) and New Hampshire (No. 24)? Not sure about that.

But as a true homer, we can generally approve of where Thrillist ranked our state of Maine: No. 2.

That’s right. Maine is the second best state in the entire country, according to this “definitive and final ranking” of them all.

Ashley fish of Lewiston guzzles a can of Moxie during the annual”Chugging Challenge” at the Moxie Festival in Lisbon Falls Saturday afternoon July 14, 2012. (BDN photo by Troy R. Bennett)

And just like that oddly cool kid in middle school, Maine gets that high a spot on the list in large part because Maine doesn’t care what you think of it.

According to Thrillist:

“Mainers don’t give a damn about your trend forecasts, they’re just going to keep naming their children ‘Wade,’ selling L.L.Bean backpacks to middle schoolers, using the term ‘Down East’ to mean South, and hilariously calling ham subs with American cheese ‘Italians.'”

Actually, Down East for most seafarers ends up being more of a northern direction, going downwind on a prevailing wind coming from the southwest, taking ships from Boston and New York to places like Bar Harbor, but we’re not here to quibble. Hey, we’re the second best state in the entire country, right?

Here’s some more of Thrillist’s description of Maine:

“Maine is so hot right now. Both literally, because it’s the summer, and in a more metaphorical sense, because Portland has become the new Portland, and food journalism is entering its hipster/nostalgia phase, in which it has become recently very cool to rediscover old places that have been doing the same damn thing forever. And outside of Portland, that is Maine. …

And we haven’t even scratched the surface on its borderline monopoly on the high-end lobster supply, its delicious blueberries, or the fact that it has literally thousands of islands you don’t even know about where dudes named Wade are probably eating lobsters and drinking Moxie as we speak.”

So if Maine’s so hot, which state finished No. 1 on the “definitive and final ranking” of all 50 states?

That would be Michigan. The state best-known for the seemingly perpetually depressed city of Detroit is the very best state in the entire country.

We have to admit, we didn’t see that coming. Read the Thrillist post for its explanation of why Michigan’s got us all beat, as well as why California barely made the top 10 and Texas didn’t.