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The Library => Haley Center Basement => Topic started by: Vandy Vol on February 21, 2013, 07:31:51 PM
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If accurate, this is pretty hilarious.
http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/2013/02/21/the-saddest-map-in-america/
(http://sullydish.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/zi-1175-2013-j-f00-idsi-76-1.jpg)
Yep, there it is: the result of a scholarly study by Dorothy Gambrell of the “missed connections†section of Craigslist. This is where you thought you saw your future spouse or date or hook-up, state by state. It is, in some ways, a sign of where we are now most likely to see people we don’t know in various parts of the country. It’s also a sign of male loneliness or romance: men seeking to find a possible love-mate outnumber women 86 – 14.
Nationally, the chart shows that great arc of life. In your twenties, you are most likely to think you’ve caught the eye of someone in an ice cream shop; in your thirties, in a bar; in your forties, a strip club or adult bookstore (those still exist?). That sounds like the trajectory of the single male to me, doesn’t it? With almost the precision of a novel.
Now look at the South – more people spy love at Wal-Mart than anywhere else, from Florida all the way to New Mexico. And that thread runs all the way through deep red America. Only Oklahoma cites the state fair as a mixer. The rest see each other under the merciless lighting of the giant super-store. This is how we fall in love or lust, where we flirt and look back: when we’re shopping. The big cities – like NYC and DC – showcase the random human interaction on the subway or metro. The Northwest has it all going on on buses.
A few more gems: California is an actual self-parody (as is Nevada). Rhode Island does not disappoint in sketchiness: parking lots are where love is suspected most often there. But the saddest state of all has to be Indiana. There, the majority of “missed connections†were “at homeâ€.
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Super Market = anonymous Wal-Mart connection