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"When it comes to Internet use, at least, the
East Coast and West Coast rule. By contrast, fewer than half of all
Southerners go online. So says the latest study of our online habits from the
Pew Internet and American Life Project, which examined how different regions
of the country use the Net. The findings offer more proof that Internet usage
is increasingly diverse. With 68 percent of adult residents having Internet
access, the Pacific Northwest stood out as the most wired region of the
country, according to the Pew project, a private nonprofit effort to track how
U.S. online usage is evolving. The Northwest was closely followed by New
England, California and what the survey called the National Capital region
(Maryland, Virginia, Washington, D.C.). The increasingly wired Mountain States
(Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Utah and Wyoming) also placed well above
average, with 64 percent of its residents having online access. By contrast,
southern states � Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi,
Tennessee and West Virginia � had the lowest overall access rate, at 48
percent." -
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