07.09.11

Fat Men

Posted in Decline and Fall, Extremism at 9:17 am by George Smith

From the wire, in Haley Barbour land:

Mississippi, where 34.4 percent of the people are obese, has the highest obesity rate. Other states with obesity rates above 30 percent include: Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Missouri, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and West Virginia …

Correlate with percentages who hold disbelief in the President being an American, global warming as hoax, etc …

Yep, it’s a stereotype. And sometimes the stereotypes have some accuracy going for them.

Life expectancy decline in the southern red and backward part of the country. “I guess the geography of the decline speaks for itself,” says the blogger.

There’s the exception to the national fatness demography in New Jersey. Where a lot of people now have buyer’s remorse.

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