Posted on 02/20/2008 3:32:55 PM PST by dynachrome
They say geography is destiny, but perhaps it is damnation as well.
We have unveiled the American city that has fallen the farthest from grace in each of the seven deadly sins ( lust, gluttony, avarice, sloth, wrath, envy and pride). For each sin we stretched our imagination to find a workable proxy--murder rates for wrath, per capita billionaires for avarice--then culled the available data sources to rank the cities. Some of the results were surprising: Salt Lake City as America's Vainest City. Some were not: Detroit as America's Most Murderous.
To view them on our interactive map, simply click on a cardinal sin, and the 10 worst (or best, depending on your point of view) cities for that particular vice will be displayed.
(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...
Washington DC..most arrogant city.
Baltimore and Philadelphia don’t even rank? We must be slippin...
Dallas’ greed is no lie.
San Antoino has not one, two, or three, but 4 sins. I’m not surprised there either. Look at it’s “diversity”. Close to the border, countless welfare dollars, high crime, and you name it.
I certainly didn’t expect to see Salt Lake City in the top 10 most lustful cities. When did Birmingham, AL drop out of the murder top 10?
I can’t believe New Orleans is not in this grouping. All that sin must have been washed away by Katrina.
“washed away by Katrina”
They moved to Houston!
Well, having viewed the map and the cities that I am familiar with, this article is like all statistical “top 10” lists, meaningless.
They measure lust with use of contraceptives?
Here is my ranking of Top-10 Most Naieve Magazines (work in progress):
1) Forbes
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Denver is supposed to be #1 in lust.
I would have thought SanFransicko, myself.
Yeah! They skipped over Sodom and Gommorha!
Sinful !
Memphis sounds like a city to avoid.
LOL - What? You have a problem with Sloth and Gluttony? Sounds like a Chubby Chaser Heaven to Me! ;o)
EAST ST LOIUS, IL HAS GOT TO BE THE MOST .....SOMETHING CITY...BUT WHAT?
Baltimore ranks 2nd in wrath and 9th in lust.
I wonder how Hollywood and the valley failed to get a lust mention AT ALL with all the homos, XXX porn and the softcore porn that passes for movies.
Atlanta has a ton of strip clubs and a high crime rate. I have to believe they should be in the top 10.
Sincerely,
Someone posting from outside of the shooting range of Detroit.
Ann Arbor: The most over-rated Big 10 football city
Indiana: The most Klan-ish state.
Ouch! Ouch! Double Ouch!
It is based on condom sales. The guys in San Francisco probably order them in cases over the internet to avoid sales tax.
I knew that Salt Lake City place was a hotbed of sex.
Boise & Salt Lake City tied for #5 on lustfull? Don't think so.
Does lust even count as a sin, anymore?
Unattractiveness isn’t a sin. Luckily for San Jose.
San Fran didn’t make the lust list because female contraceptives sales make up 1/3 of the ratings. Gay males and females don’t use them at all.
Those people don't live in Vegas. ;)
Contraceptives shouldn’t rank into lust. Condom sales or Playboy magazine sales would be a better measure.
relative to the rest of the country ALL of the cities are Sodom and Gommorah.....
as for Salt Lake City, people constantly associate it with the rest of the ‘red’ state of Utah, but it’s actually a fairly typical left-liberal population of ‘Rats although with a bit of a Utah twist....... the urban core of SLC is highly liberal, always votes for ‘Rats (usually the worst ones), and has little to do with the rest of the state except geographical proximity......
Balt. Philly rank at killing each other, along with Detroit, Newark. See a pattern, all big on gun control and run by the Left. See wrath.
Word. Yo whatchu got Gee?
Whasup? Blues on the half shell.
No thang for DC boy.
Yo wach u want Gee?
You wouldn't say that if you ever had Memphis barbecue!
Sounds like Minneapolis.
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