And Ontario is lily-white?
It appears that the so-called "bible belt" states have cornered the market on envy, wrath and lust...
...and they're proud of it. :-D
What would the seven deadly sins of O be I wonder?
Few ideas...
Following?
Not thumbing the map?
Covetting thy neighbour's compass?
Poking holes in their methodology:
* Envy must be 'per capita' even though they didn't mention this, because there is no way that places with millions of people like New York City or Boston or St. Louis have the same number or fewer thefts as rural Wyoming.
* I'm guessing that rates of STDs and reporting of STDs are strongly correlated with other factors that drive most of this picture. I would guess that reluctance to use a condom and poverty are both strongly correlated with STDs but not with lust or number of times having sex per week.
* "gluttony" just tells me that fast food restaurants are remarkably well distributed throughout the United States. That said, I still question the granularity or accuracy of their data. Or, they have a broad view on what classifies as a fast food restaurant. I would have expected that areas like San Francisco, which essentially ban fast-food restaurants in the city boundaries, would have shown up as blue.
* The red areas for sloth are all very rural areas, which I'm guessing are showing up due to incredibly high rates of unemployment than anything else.
* pride: the best way to get more meaningful statistics is obviously to average together questionable ones.
Poking holes in their methodology:
The study was done by K-State, so....
I just came from a Golden Corral restaurant. I can't believe the whole country isn't bathed in dark red for Gluttony. Scale error there, methinks.