Today I am shedding some "lyte" on the seven deadly sins. No, it is not a new reality TV show, they are catalog of bad behavior that has been around since the 14th century. Well, a team at Kansas State has mapped the sins geographically across the United States. They used per capita statistics like theft for envy, and STD's for lust. They then color-coded the sin from a deep gold (saintly) to a deep magenta (devilish).
So, how did the maps turn out? For a full pictorial, go to Wired.com. But I will summarize it for you. Greed is mostly concentrated in the four corners of our great nation, with the greatest concentration in California. The Southeastern seaboard states, including Florida have the most envy. They also had the greatest concentration of wrath, but there is a nice pocket of that in Texas as well.
Sloth was found in Montana and Idaho. Gluttony was shared by Texas, Tennessee, and the Virginias. Lust was highly concentrated in the South, with the exception of Florida. And Pride, which was an aggregate of all the sins was once again concentrated mainly in the southern states, with pockets in California, the Northwest and up the East Coast.
And where do we find most of the saints? Surprisingly, not in Utah, but in the Midwest. Gluttony is the only sin that has no saintly states, but given the obesity rates in our country, I am not shocked.
I must admit, I am disappointed that my hometown, Las Vegas, was only magenta for one sin: Greed. So much for "Sin City", we need to get busy!
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