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INTEREST: How Nerdy Is Your State? New Report Ranks America's Geekiest States

This is all really surprising. I'd have expected my home state (Texas) to be a pretty big anime hot spot, and California and New York not being very geeky in general completely baffles me.

I'm a bit confused...

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Which states have the most nerd-friendly retailer access? ...and West Coast, Best Coast's Washington state is third.

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Washington State has a similar problem (#38 in retailers vs #4 in geek interest).

So are we third or thirty-eighth in retailers?

(Also, wondering if anything in their metrics took into account Microsoft, Nintendo, Amazon, and Funko all being local to the greater Seattle area?)

Lactobacillus yogurti wrote:

I'd say that rather than the whitest, it's which state is the most open-minded and progressive. Most of the states that ranked low in this survey also happen to be the most religious ones.

Well, there is somewhat of that correlation as well, driven by blacks and Hispanics being more religious on average - but Asians tend to be less religious, which didn't help other states. New York and California are progressive, but not in the top 20 here, and have low percentage of whites. Also, Utah and Idaho ranked very high and have a lot of (almost all white) religious Mormons. Montana, North Dakota, and Wyoming are all extremely white, and, even if not as religious, I wouldn't call progressive exactly.

In short, while there may be some small correlation there, it is definitely much much smaller than the correlation with percentage white, which predicts almost the entire list.

I’m surprised that Ohio is ranked at #13 because there’s nothing here but farmland and good clean county air which as you can guess does not make for very good internet connection hell the most nerdiest place around is the local GameStop for crying out loud next nerdiest is the flea market if you can believe that.

I wouldn't say y'all opinions are without merit, but considering I just so happen to be Mormon and live Idaho I'm not surprised that Idaho and Utah are in the top 10. I can't speak for all but I would say anime fans in those two states are more progressive including myself than most. I do know most Mormons also love their Star Wars and Marvel movies btw. We are very geeky. I can't really speak about the race biases in your statement because I'm white so I guess I match your hypothesis. Lol.

Kruszer wrote:

Not surprisingly, Minnesota is one of least geeky states.

How is that not surprising? *is also Minnesotan* I feel like there's a lot of geek culture around the Twin Cities. We don't have a ton going on event or retail-wise (mostly because companies tend to forget that the midwest exists outside of Chicago), but Anime Detour is the second biggest anime convention in the midwest, and we have a bunch of other anime and geek cons.

[Edit]: Okay, not second biggest in the midwest. But the biggest outside of Illinois.

-It's frequently the case whenever some anime movie comes to theaters Minnesota doesn't even get one theater showing it unless it's Ghibli or has a big franchise name attached like Dragonball Z. If it does get a theater it's usually in Minneapolis which is a long drive away from Duluth. Although, within the past couple years the local theater near me has been getting more of them. They played Sword Art Online: Ordinal Scale and Bungou Stray Dogs: Dead Apple.

Wow, this looks to be more on par with the population density of the US. You can take this so many ways. Less populated areas, the more geeks, with Illinois and Ohio being the outliers.

http://ontheworldmap.com/usa/usa-population-density-map.html

Kruszer wrote:

-It's frequently the case whenever some anime movie comes to theaters Minnesota doesn't even get one theater showing it unless it's Ghibli or has a big franchise name attached like Dragonball Z. If it does get a theater it's usually in Minneapolis which is a long drive away from Duluth. Although, within the past couple years the local theater near me has been getting more of them. They played Sword Art Online: Ordinal Scale and Bungou Stray Dogs: Dead Apple.

Sore wa chigau yo!

Ahem *cough*

The Marcus in Oakdale has gotten almost every anime release in the last two years, and is one of the theaters that gets the Crunchyroll Presents Movie Nights movies. The Carmike/New Vision in Oakdale get all of Funimation's releases. The Lagoon in Minneapolis gets a lot of anime (as well as other smaller, indie releases). I agree that northern MN probably doesn't get much (once again, companies need to get their heads out of their asses and realize that people actually live in states that aren't either east coast or west coast), but the Twin Cities are a hub of geek culture. Heck, the Mall of America has an entire store devoted to anime (Eagle Anime) in addition to the Tomodochi store (which also has a branch in the Rosedale mall), which carries Japanese and Korean fandom merch. We actually get so much more than a lot of the states around us do.