Liberal Areas Greedier, Bible Belt Excels in Envy, Wrath, Lust and Pride ?

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Liberal Areas Greedier, Bible Belt Excels in Envy, Wrath, Lust and Pride ?

By Bruce Wilson Tue Sep 29, 2009 at 11:24:54 AM EST print story


As described in a story at Wired Magazine, an enterprising team from the Geography Department at Kansas State University has created a series of United States maps that purport to show incidence of the seven deadly sins mentioned in the Bible: greed, envy, wrath, sloth, gluttony, lust, and pride. Now, there are some methodological questions in terms of what proxy data the team chose as representing incidence of deadly sins. For example, the proxy data for "sloth" are "Expenditures on art, entertainment, and recreation compared with employment." And, do STD rates really correlate with lust ? But the maps are certainly intriguing.

http://www.talk2action.org/story/2009/9/29/112454/030