Friday, January 29, 2010

We're #1 for dumb

First five from a list of the ten most illiterate cities w/pops above 25,000: El Paso, Corpus Christi, Long Beach, Calif., Detroit, and San Antonio.
See a pattern there? For the other five ignorance oases, see Wiki.answers. There has been a recent hoohah about Laredo losing its only bookstore. The few readers in that poor benighted border town are protesting, but why should a bookstore continue business in a city where nobody much reads? Texas leads the way in ignorance, sweeping all before us.

4 comments:

Pilot said...

So Texas landed three out of the top five, apparently with the pollsters never setting foot in Victoria. Interesting. Long Beach is a surprise, Detroit is not. Something tells me that those doing the research, stayed out of Miss., Ala., Tennessee, and likely New Hampshire, New Jersey, and New Orleans.......

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Edith Ann said...

Ohhh.....

I graduated from TAMU-CC in 1990. Wonder if this finding invalidates my diploma?

As I recall from the 22 months I lived there in 1981-82, CC was not overloaded with bookstores. There was just 1 branch of the public library. But thay had good stats at the time for private education. Huge Montessori school there.

This is interesting.

Edith Ann said...

(just watched The Blindside)

I must have my southern thang going on--> 'thay'...!