[Mpls] Minneapolis smarts...

[Elizabeth Greenbaum]

Saw this article in netscape and thought I'd pass it on to the forum list... see below Liz Greenbaum Longfellow U.S. City With the Smartest People Is... ...Minneapolis, Minnesota. That's the word from researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater who studied statistics from five categories and 13 different measures of literacy to provide a ranking for all cities with a population of 250,000 or more. The literacy profile for each city included citizens' educational level, newspaper circulation rates, library resources, number of periodicals published, and the number of booksellers. The 10 most literate U.S. cities are: 1. Minneapolis, Minnesota 2. Seattle, Washington 3. Denver, Colorado 4. Atlanta, Georgia 5. San Francisco, California 6. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 7. Washington, D.C. 8. Louisville, Kentucky 9. Portland, Oregon 10. Cincinnati, Ohio The least literate cities are (in descending order): Los Angeles, California and Toledo, Ohio (tie); Fresno, California; Jacksonville, Florida; Memphis, Tennessee; Santa Ana, California; San Antonio, Texas; Detroit, Michigan; Long Beach, California; and Corpus Christi, Texas. And the least literate city in the United States is El Paso, Texas.