neener, neener!
Posted on 12/28/2007 8:00:52 AM PST by Cagey
Like a top-heavy tower of books, Seattle tumbled from its ranking as "America's Most Literate City" this year.
The new winner: Minneapolis, ending Seattle's two-year reign on top.
The Emerald City only slipped to second place, but some of the local literati took it hard.
"I don't believe it," said Tracy Taylor, general manager for Elliott Bay Book Co. in Pioneer Square, which was bursting with post-Christmas customers Thursday. "And we're not even having a sale," Taylor noted.
But the statistics don't lie — even though they also don't capture all the nuances of what makes one city more literate than another, said Mark McLaughlin, spokesman for Central Connecticut State University, which compiles the annual list.
"We can only provide a kind of macro look."
The rankings, originated and authored by CCSU's president John W. Miller, compare the country's 69 biggest cities in terms of libraries, bookstores, educational levels, newspaper readership, locally published magazines and Internet resources.
Seattle continues to lead the nation in number of bookstores per 10,000 people and in the percentage of adult residents with high-school diplomas and bachelor's degrees or higher.
(Excerpt) Read more at seattletimes.nwsource.com ...
Literate or liberal?
Understandable.
Minneapolis: It’s so cold you can only spend time outdoors a few days a year.
Seattle: It’s so rainy you can only sped time outdoors a few days a year.
I guess adult bookstores count.
Hard to believe.
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Understood. I had thought that chart could be in a reply section.
Coffee tables.
I guess Minneapolis is just too cold for our migratory illiterates from the country to the immediate south.
You beat me to it!
Literate in what, the Koran?
Do you remember during the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta when a phone operator claimed that New Mexico was not in the United States?
I know why. Seattle’s new tourist slogan is “Metronatural”.
Amen Brother Amen.
Wow. No, but it doesn’t surprise me.
Please check this box if you are illiterate: _____
Those who could not read used the surveys to line the cages for their pit bulls.
Be assured, they’re here. I’m guessing they don’t read much. Cursory observations show that they spend their earnings on grooming (hair color and other frivolous things that I never thought to buy/do, mullets for the boys), cars larger than their means should allow, CDs, etc.. However, they are illiterate (even in their own tongue), so its dubious that they read much.
Minneapolis literate?
Seattle literate?
Who makes these judgments, anyway. Cities cannot, by their very nature, be “literate”. Only people can.
And in both those towns, there are an awful lot of people who are willfully ignorant, which if they were truly literate, would be something of an oxymoron.
You cannot be literate if ignorant.
When it comes to nonprofit organizations, each of which publish something, all the national organizations publish their news letters in or around Washington DC.
A simple reweighting of their data elements in favor of periodicals and newsletters would make New York %1 and Washington DC #2. Seattle and Minneapolis would fall to the bottom of the list. Actually NOBODY BUT NOBODY runs any of their nonprofits out of Seattle, and I can't imagine anyone actually having a printing plant in that part of the world.
It deserves the title of the "Most Effete Liberal City In America"*
Along with that...the "Most Metrosexual City In America"*
And it's getting worse....our Mayor and City Council all belong to the those cliques.
*With the possible exception of San Francisco
But with my wife she didn't think New Mexico wasn't part of the United States, she just had this odd temporary mental block and forgot New Mexico even existed.
“I guess adult bookstores count.”
According to the Methodology statement, “for figures reported for “retail”, these did not include any “specialty”, “adult”, or “religious” bookstores.”
http://www.ccsu.edu/AMLC07/Methodology.htm
Come to think of it, I haven't had a phone call or letter from New Mexico in years. Maybe it's gone.
One who is literate can read and write. One who is ignorant lacks knowledge. I'm pretty sure Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and John Edwards can read and write as well as you. If A=B, and B=C, then A=C. I guess that makes you ignorant.
A drive down E. Lake St. will dissolve you of that notion pretty quick.
Minneapolis is also the most heavily biked city in America. People around here are actually quite outdoors oriented - fishing, camping, biking, etc. are all huge. Also, the summers here are quite warm, but even in the dead of winter (like right now), people are out and about.
I guess you’re just one of those wusses that can’t take the cold. ;)
DC native here. DC is full of universities, you've got the elite government types, and thousands of lawyers, so I'm not surprised it's #5. Take it down a notch to the 'little people' and it probably falls to #100. : )
Bump for later.
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