Most literate city

[pegkerr]

Hurrah! Obviously, I'm living in the right place. Minneapolis ranks #1 as the most literate city in the U.S.A., based on a study coming out of the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater.

(I am amused but not surprised to find that of the last ten cities in the ranking, five of them are in Texas.)

Comments

[dd-b.livejournal.com]

Interesting analysis; but it seems to me that we get a LOT of immigrants here in Minneapolis. And our city limits are drawn fairly tightly; the metropolitan area is something like 2.4 million people, over 7 times the population of the city of Minneapolis. We're getting up to the density of Spanish speakers where quite a few stores in walking distance of where I live have signs only in Spanish. We also have a large cohort of Hmong, Ethiopian, and Kenyan immigrants, and older batches of Vietnamese and other Asian areas.