American Vice: Mapping the 7 Deadly Sins

[rd_kent]

http://www.wired.com/culture/education/magazine/17-09/st_sinmaps



Draw your own conclusions.....the hypocrisy seems pretty clear to me, but I never expected anything different.

[firehorse]

1. South Dakota looks pretty saintly....

maybe its because it has a low population density compared to other areas.

[rd_kent]

2. Yup, I think so too.

Funny how the "bible belt" has issues......

[closeupready]

7. No you're reading it backwards - the purple means SD is devilish.

Two possible reasons off the top of my head:

1) statistics show that STD's (and drug abuse and alcoholism) are high on Native American reservations; and

2) is this a meth production center?

[rd_kent]

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[rd_kent]

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[blueworld]

5. Misleading & biased is an understatement

They should have isolated the stats by income & education level. I believe poverty & ignorance are the roots of all sin, not pride.

How surprising that crime & poor nutrition are highest in areas of high unemployment, low education & no hope for future improvement. STD's my aunt Myrtle May. How many stillborn births & birth defects per capita, particularly in Texas?

My conclusion is that poor, ignorant people turn heavily to religion for hope, and religions frequently exploit them. So this is a statistically blessed attack on the Bible-belt by well-educated collegians.

The South needs more colleges & scholarships, many fewer ministers & a public option for healthcare since the jobs are in China. It doesn't need more blue staters crowing about how much better/smarter/healthier & holier THEY are.

[seabeyond]

6. bush/cheney and repugs pride is what gave us iraq and so much more

so pride too can be the fall.

[rd_kent]

10. Its not biased.

It says it is done by geographic region, nothing more.

They should have isolated the stats by income & education level. Well, that would have been a completely different study. Im not saying you are wrong, I too would like to see it broken down that way, but they just didnt do it like that.

[scheming daemons]

8. What a surprise... states that tend to vote Republican are the biggest sinners

[Kalyke]

9. Wow... I live in a pretty saintly area of the Bible Belt

East Tennessee didn't really have too much outside of fast food restaurants.