Most literate big cities in the US (unemployed, university)
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Using six factors (newspaper circulation, number of bookstores, library resources, periodical publishing resources, educational attainment, and Internet resources), Central Connecticut State University every year does a survey of America's largest cities (250,000+) and ranks them. The 2008 list just came out.
America's top 20 most literate big cities in 2008
1. Minneapolis (TIED)
1. Seattle (TIED)
3. Washington
4. Saint Paul
5. San Francisco
6. Atlanta
7. Denver
8. Boston
9. Saint Louis
10. Cincinnati (TIED)
10. Portland OR (TIED)
12. Pittsburgh
13. Cleveland
14. Raleigh
15. Columbus OH
16. Baltimore
17. Austin
18. Kansas City MO
19. Lexington KY (TIED)
19. Nashville (TIED)
Luddite list in era of Net, google, Kindle, Amazon, iPad, etc which make things like libraries and bookstores stuff of dinosaurs
Except that a number of the cities listed are filled with tech companies and tech-savvy people. Amazon and Microsoft are in Seattle, Google and Apple are near San Francisco, etc.
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