Bush Country

[Chris Alger]

A recent study (http://www.uww.edu/cities/) ranked all 64 U.S. cities with populations of at least 250,000 according to how "literate" they were. Here are the bottom five:

60. San Antonio
61. Detroit
62. Long Beach
63. Corpus Christi
64. El Paso

Fort Worth, Dallas and Houston were all in the bottom half. Weirdly, Las Vegas tied with Boston. Denver was third.

[andyfox]

I note that Los Angeles was ranked just behind that pillar of the literary world, Anaheim, and just ahead another well-known bastion of literacy, Toledo, Ohio. I mean, how do you rank behind Anaheim; the most famous author to hail from Anaheim is Goofy. Garsh!

I'm sure there must be some category where we Angelinos would rank higher up the list. Is there a homicide or egotism study?

[elwoodblues]

I can say, without question, that I am not contributing to Minneapolis being number 1.

[andyfox]

Your posts, including the one to which I am now responding, indicate otherwise.

[brad]

obviously not counting literacy in spanish, or in the case of detroit, ebonics /images/graemlins/smile.gif

p.s. detroit im not really sure but others im sure about the spanish

[daryn]

good to know we can read here in boston, well some of us /images/graemlins/smirk.gif

[Cyrus]

Interesting link (http://www.uww.edu/cities/index.html) , thanks. I didn't download the whole study (in Acrobat) to ..study it, so I cannot comment on the methodology. A note : it seems the study presents the findings in the form of "1 educational outlet (however that's been defined) per X number of citizens", so this is why the "Average" figure ascends in value when the ranking descends.