Thursday, June 2, 2011

The South Shall Read Again and Again and Again ...

Everyone is bragging about how Cambridge topped Amazon.com's list of best-read cities in America. But no one is breaking it down by region, where New England does not fare so well.

Here are the rankings:

South:

2. Alexandria, Virginia
6. Miami, Florida
8. Gainesville, Florida
10. Arlington, Virginia
11. Knoxville, Tennesee
12. Orlando, Florida
14. Washington, District of Columbia
16. Columbia, South Carolina
20. Atlanta, Georgia

West Coast:

3. Berkeley, California
9. Seattle, Washington
15. Bellevue, Washington
19. Portland, Oregon

Midwest:

4. Ann Arbor, Michigan
13. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
17. St. Louis, Missouri
18. Cincinnati, Ohio

Rocky Mountain:

5. Boulder, Colorado
7. Salt Lake City, Utah

New England:

1. Cambridge, Massachusetts

Where are the readers in the Mid-Atlantic and Southwest?

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