# What does your state search for more than the other states? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 25, 2008, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-state-search-for-more-than-the-other-states/474392 "2008-11-25T04:51:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2008, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-state-search-for-more-than-the-other-states/474392/21 "2008-11-25T15:31:21Z")
> [@Roland\_Orzabal](#): > > …Pepsi’s stronghold is apparently Colorado by a wide margin, which I did not know. > … Looking for tickets at the Pepsi Center I bet ---
**Author:** ![EpicNonsense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c37758/32.png) [@EpicNonsense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EpicNonsense)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2008, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-state-search-for-more-than-the-other-states/474392/22 "2008-11-25T15:55:05Z")
Public Nudity - Idaho Mickey Mouse - Louisiana Drug Addicts - Louisiana Masturbation - Utah Religion & Jesus Christ - Utah Spiderman - Utah & Florida Anal Leakage - New York Transvestites - Hawaii (no surprise there) Retardation - Pennsylvania Douche Bags - Illinois McDonalds - Illinois Homelessness - Hawaii (no surprise there) Porn - Florida XXX - Florida & California Family Guy - Rhode Island Suicide Hotline - Colorado Tooth Ache - Arkansas ok i’m bored now ---
**Author:** ![Fretful\_Porpentine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fretful_porpentine/32/2873_2.png) [@Fretful\_Porpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fretful_Porpentine)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2008, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-state-search-for-more-than-the-other-states/474392/23 "2008-11-25T15:58:45Z")
Mississippi wins “antichrist.” I’m so proud. **ETA:** More puzzlingly, it also leads in searches for “Geoffrey Chaucer.” Huh. ---
**Author:** ![robardin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/43a26b/32.png) [@robardin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robardin)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2008, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-state-search-for-more-than-the-other-states/474392/24 "2008-11-25T15:59:05Z")
Hmm, not surprisingly, searches for “wine” turn up most often in CA, NY, WA and OR. I tried to think of a search that would be definitely most popular in my home state of NY beyond any other. I came up with the term for a financial derivative currently much in the news, “Credit Default Swap”. Nailed it in one: NY comes back at a rate of 100, followed by NJ at 80 and CT at 58! (That’s some spread!) Now what might NY be _last_ in? I tried to think of Western/Southwestern US terms. “Rodeo” came close, it’s in the bottom 10 but not dead last (even counting ties). And “hoosegow” was a big surprise: NY is actually _third_, behind Florida and Illinois (?!). I’ll have to work on that one! ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2008, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-state-search-for-more-than-the-other-states/474392/25 "2008-11-25T16:00:36Z")
Minnesota: Recount Caribou (must be people looking for coffee…) Viking ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2008, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-state-search-for-more-than-the-other-states/474392/26 "2008-11-25T16:02:02Z")
> [@Kyla](#): > > Top for states searching for beer: PA, WI, MA, OH, MI > Top five states searching for wine: CA, NY, WA, OR, DC Top five states searching for microbrew: OR, WA, CO, CA, PA So, apparently the west coast is rather pretentious about their alcohol and PA will drink any beer they can get their hands on no matter what its called. Bottom five states for “boredom” DC, HI, NH, SC, AZ ---
**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2008, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-state-search-for-more-than-the-other-states/474392/27 "2008-11-25T16:18:17Z")
Hmm. I decided to search medications, just for the heck of it. Louisiana is taking Wellbutrin. West Virginia is on Paxil. Massachusetts is on Prozac. Tennessee is on Cymbalta. New York takes Advil. Pennsylvania likes Tylenol (and aspirin) Michigan prefers Motrin. And on another, odd, note: Utah comes up tops for searches on Batman, Spiderman, _and_ Superman. What gives? ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2008, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-state-search-for-more-than-the-other-states/474392/28 "2008-11-25T16:25:00Z")
> [@robardin](#): > > Now what might NY be _last_ in? I tried to think of Western/Southwestern US terms. “Rodeo” came close, it’s in the bottom 10 but not dead last (even counting ties). And “hoosegow” was a big surprise: NY is actually _third_, behind Florida and Illinois (?!). > > I’ll have to work on that one! Guns seem to be weak in NY. Both Ruger and Mossberg come back second to last, maybe try along those lines. ---
**Author:** ![UTejas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UTejas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UTejas)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2008, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-state-search-for-more-than-the-other-states/474392/29 "2008-11-25T16:27:13Z")
Pennsylvania is tops in both “snaggletooth” and “thrombosis” ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2008, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-state-search-for-more-than-the-other-states/474392/30 "2008-11-25T16:30:03Z")
Ohio kicks ass in the “pork rinds” category. Unsurprisingly, density has a positive correlation with pork rinds. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![sciurophobic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cab0a1/32.png) [@sciurophobic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sciurophobic)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2008, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-state-search-for-more-than-the-other-states/474392/31 "2008-11-25T16:39:08Z")
> [@Darryl\_Lict](#): > > California: > > Avocado Surprisingly it’s only 12th for guacamole, behind those states well known for their Mexican food, Minnesota and Connecticut. Or maybe it’s because Californians know how to make guacamole so they don’t need to look up the recipe. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2008, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-state-search-for-more-than-the-other-states/474392/32 "2008-11-25T16:52:27Z")
> [@EpicNonsense](#): > > Douche Bags - Illinois That’s just us doing searches to find out what our state’s politicians are up to. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2008, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-state-search-for-more-than-the-other-states/474392/33 "2008-11-25T17:08:22Z")
California is #1 for gay. ---
**Author:** ![robardin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/43a26b/32.png) [@robardin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robardin)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2008, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-state-search-for-more-than-the-other-states/474392/34 "2008-11-25T18:10:44Z")
> [@wolfman](#): > > Guns seem to be weak in NY. Both Ruger and Mossberg come back second to last, maybe try along those lines. Well this is a bit of a Catch 22, because I’m a born-and-bred New Yorker and thus might well not think of search terms a typical New Yorker wouldn’t think of searching for. For example, I myself didn’t have the foggiest idea that “Ruger” and “Mossberg” related to guns (to me, it sounds like partners in a law firm, though “Ruger” on its own recalls a brand of sugar wafer). “Glock” and “Smith and Wesson” would have been my names… …and you’re right on, NY is second-to-last for “Glock” and hooray, dead last for “Smith and Wesson”! I also just tried “high school football” as one of those things I know Texas and other Southern states are large-scale nuts about for reasons I absolutely cannot fathom. And indeed, NY is very low, second-to-last out of 50, but Vermont is even lower. ---
**Author:** ![robardin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/43a26b/32.png) [@robardin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robardin)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2008, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-state-search-for-more-than-the-other-states/474392/35 "2008-11-25T18:22:53Z")
Hey, how about this game? Find the biggest spread between the top state and the second state for a given query. For example, earlier I found that NY was #1 in searching for “Credit Default Swap”, followed by NJ at 58 – slightly better than a 7:4 ratio between first and second. I just tried, for no good reason, “Liberace” and was astounded to find that the #1 state (Nevada) led over the #2 state (Wisconsin) by 100:25 – that’s 4:1! ---
**Author:** ![AmericanMaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@AmericanMaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AmericanMaid)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2008, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-state-search-for-more-than-the-other-states/474392/36 "2008-11-25T18:31:46Z")
Huh, homosexual and obesity are positively correlated and Indiana is #1 on that search. ---
**Author:** ![Lamar\_Mundane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2008, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-state-search-for-more-than-the-other-states/474392/37 "2008-11-25T18:36:06Z")
The correlations are more interesting. The state list for “Wal Mart” correlates most closely with the state ranking for “Obesity”, and correlates least with the state ranking for “High Schol Grad” and “Income.” Costco has the highest postive correlation with “High School Grad” and the lowest with “Obesity.” ---
**Author:** ![Emily\_Litella](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emily_litella/32/3370_2.png) [@Emily\_Litella](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emily_Litella)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2008, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-state-search-for-more-than-the-other-states/474392/38 "2008-11-25T18:38:42Z")
New Jersey: Springsteen Bon Jovi but we come in second to New York for Sinatra. What Exit Joe Piscopo Pork Roll Pimples Texas is first for arm pit hair and Alabama is first for pubic hair ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2008, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-state-search-for-more-than-the-other-states/474392/39 "2008-11-25T19:07:37Z")
FL and OH lead in **Anal Sex**. (I’ll let you all fill in the 2000 & 2004 election jokes). NY leads the nation in **Douchebaggery** and **herpes**. SD leads the nation in **Hot women**. (Bet you’d never hear those words). IL leads the nation in **skanks**. However, AK and MI lead the nation in **sluts**. KY leads the nation in **bloody stool**. (Fill in your KY Jelly jokes here.) CA leads the nation when it comes to a **wet fart**. And NC leads in **constipation**. MS leads our great nation in **sucking dick**. While MA leads in **analingus**. ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2008, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-state-search-for-more-than-the-other-states/474392/40 "2008-11-25T19:32:25Z")
> [@robardin](#): > > Well this is a bit of a Catch 22, because I’m a born-and-bred New Yorker and thus might well not think of search terms a typical New Yorker wouldn’t think of searching for. For example, I myself didn’t have the foggiest idea that “Ruger” and “Mossberg” related to guns (to me, it sounds like partners in a law firm, though “Ruger” on its own recalls a brand of sugar wafer). “Glock” and “Smith and Wesson” would have been my names… Hehe I didn’t think of that. I did deliberately choose those thinking that they are not much in the popular mindset, but are very popular with actual gun buyers. To try to self-select against people researching an actual gun purchase(not likely in NY), as opposed to people just looking things up that they’ve heard about. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-state-search-for-more-than-the-other-states/474392.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-state-search-for-more-than-the-other-states/474392.md?page=3)