Mpls: We read without moving our lips

[barondave]

Most Literate U.S. Cities: Minneapolis and Seattle

Residents of Minneapolis and Seattle are the most bookish and well-read, according to results from a new survey released today of the most literate American cities.
 
The survey focused on 69 U.S. cities with populations of 250,000 or above. Jack Miller of Central Connecticut State University chose six key indicators to rank literacy. These included newspaper circulation, number of bookstores, library resources, periodical publishing resources, educational attainment and Internet resources.

St. Paul is third.

I suspect a cause and effect between "literate" and "fannish", but I'm not sure in which direction it runs.

Comments

[chasophonic.livejournal.com]

Makes it all the more embarrassing that Minneapolis couldn't (wouldn't) maintain their own library system.

[barondave.livejournal.com]

True enough, though to be fair Hennepin Country does a lot of that. (Underfunded as well, alas.)

[invader-tak-1.livejournal.com]

What drove me crazy is that they built the Library palace downtown on the broken backs of the community Libraries they either shut down, or shortened the hours of almost to uselessness.

But Minneapolis has always had a "Fuck everything else, as long as our skyline looks modern." attitude.