Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Sin Cities

America's Most Sinful Cities
Forbes.com staff, 02.14.08

They say geography is destiny, but perhaps it is damnation as well.
We have unveiled the American city that has fallen the farthest from grace in each of the seven deadly sins ( lust, gluttony, avarice, sloth, wrath, envy and pride). For each sin we stretched our imagination to find a workable proxy--murder rates for wrath, per capita billionaires for avarice--then culled the available data sources to rank the cities. Some of the results were surprising: Salt Lake City as America's Vainest City. Some were not: Detroit as America's Most Murderous.
To view them on our interactive map, simply click on a cardinal sin, and the 10 worst
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