Welcome to South Carolina: Home of Envy, Wrath, Lust and Pride!

So much for the "Bible Belt". It's time to rename the Southeastern United States the Sin Den. According to some Geogra-nerds at Kansas State, the states of the Confederacy are ripe with capital vices.

The question of evil and where it lurks has been largely ignored by the scientific community, which is why a recently released study titled “The Spatial Distribution of the Seven Deadly Sins Within Nevada” is groundbreaking: Never before has a state’s fall from grace been so precisely graphed and plotted.

Geographers from Kansas State University have used certain statistical measurements to quantify Nevada’s sins and come up with a county-by-county map purporting to show various degrees of lust, gluttony, greed, sloth, wrath, envy and pride in the Silver State. By culling statistics from nationwide databanks of things like sexually transmitted disease infection rates (lust) or killings per capita (wrath), the researchers came up with a sin index. This is a precision party trick — rigorous mapping of ridiculous data. [...]

Envy was calculated using the total number of thefts — robbery, burglary, larceny and stolen cars.... Wrath was calculated by comparing the total number of violent crimes — murder, assault and rape — reported to the FBI per capita.... Lust was calculated by compiling the number of sexually transmitted diseases — HIV, AIDS, syphilis, chlamydia and gonorrhea — reported per capita.... And pride, lastly, is most important. The root of all sins, in this study, is the aggregate of all data. Vought and his Kansas colleagues combined all data from the six other sins and averaged it into an overview of all evil....

The Wildcats focused on Nevada but offered a nationwide overview. Despite conservative complaints in the South about "San Francisco values" slowly creeping across America, maybe the rest of the country should be worried about the South Carolina values that are producing all this sinnin'.

H/t Neatorama