# We're From The South, And We're Fat: Latest Report on Obesity By State **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 15, 2010, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-from-the-south-and-were-fat-latest-report-on-obesity-by-state/546820 "2010-07-15T19:35:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Peremensoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@Peremensoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peremensoe)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2010, 8:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-from-the-south-and-were-fat-latest-report-on-obesity-by-state/546820/61 "2010-07-17T08:39:47Z")
> [@Ann\_Onimous](#): > > He says the South consists of TN, SC, NC, AR, LA, MS, AL and GA. FL, according to him, is a Yankee Penal Colony. KY never made up their mind, and is simply confused. 😃 That’s a small South. If leaving out _Virginia_ was intentional (!), I have to say it’s severely ahistorical. And our sense of history is supposed to be one of the differences between Southerners and other Americans. Kentucky, and Maryland, sided solidly with the South in [1860](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8d/1860prescountymap.PNG). The real “border states,” with substantial division of sentiment just prior to the secession crisis, were Pennsylvania and Missouri. The former tipped to the North and the latter to the South. (The secession of Maryland, for example, was prevented only by the extrajudicial imprisonment of their legislature; the later partitioning of Virginia was rigged, conducted without the participation of Southern sympathizers from those counties.) Oklahoma, of course, wasn’t a state, but the Cherokee, Chippewa, Choctaw, Creek and Seminole nations all sided with the Confederacy. Getting back to the fatness… despite stalwart Southern leadership, the bulging trend is hardly limited to these parts. Washington state and New Mexico might be the most dedicated to the expansion project, by their relative advances in the past 20 years. A barbecue joint I’m familiar with has a poster: “Memphis. Second Fattest City in America. We won’t stop 'till we’re number one!” But despite Memphites’ best efforts–they _are_ fatter today than when the poster was made–their ranking has actually slipped. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2010, 9:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-from-the-south-and-were-fat-latest-report-on-obesity-by-state/546820/62 "2010-07-17T09:34:19Z")
Can anyone explain Washington DC’s figures? According to the article, they’re one of the highest areas for childhood obesity and one of the lowest for adult obesity. Maybe they need to cut lard out of their school lunch programs. ---
**Author:** ![Chicagojeff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b19c9b/32.png) [@Chicagojeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chicagojeff)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2010, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-from-the-south-and-were-fat-latest-report-on-obesity-by-state/546820/63 "2010-07-17T13:01:11Z")
> [@Mr.Accident](#): > > Heh, Georgia is only #17. I expected we’d be a higher on that list. Gotta be Metro Atlanta that brings the rate down.. When I leave the perimeter for my son’s basketball tournaments.. I’m absolutely stunned by the rate of large people I observe. ---
**Author:** ![In\_Winnipeg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a8b319/32.png) [@In\_Winnipeg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/In_Winnipeg)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2010, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-from-the-south-and-were-fat-latest-report-on-obesity-by-state/546820/64 "2010-07-17T19:05:03Z")
> [@Labrador\_Deceiver](#): > > That’s nothing compared to the way people in Winnipeg turn one question and one statement into a mass of gibberish. Yeah, you’re right…that’s what happens when your mind goes faster than your fingers. Insert the missing word “when” between “expect” and “so”. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-from-the-south-and-were-fat-latest-report-on-obesity-by-state/546820.md?page=3)