Red States are Fat States

It's almost certainly no accident that the 5 American states with the fattest populations happen to be GOP bastions, while 4 of the 5  states with the lowest obesity rates are safely in the Democratic column, but rather than going into the ins and outs of why exactly these facts should be as they are, I'll leave it as an exercise for the reader, contenting myself here with suggesting that perhaps there are positive aspects to all the latte-sipping, sushi-eating and arugula-munching Blue state types get up to - and what's even more interesting is that even the "slimmest" American states are put handily to shame by the svelte figures cut by the commies of France and the Netherlands ...

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[art sindlinger]

I noticed this, too, when I recently did some similar research about red state / blue state characteristics. Posted about it here: http://sindlinger.blogspot.com/2008/10/red-states-blue-states-fat-states-dumb.html