iSteve visits by state per capita rates

Here are per capita rate of visits to my blog over the last month by state, adjusted for each state's population, on a scale where if the percentage of total America page views coming from state equals that state's percentage of total population, then that state will get a 100. Not surprisingly, D.C. is way, way out ahead with a per capita rate of viewership 13.82 times the national average. Among real states, the differences aren't as vast. The traditionally most highbrow state, Massachusetts, is first among actual states, with 2.25 times as many page views per capita as the national average.

Last is North Dakota at 0.27 times the national average rate of visits per person.

As commenter Anony-Mouse points out, people in North Dakota are busy at real jobs digging holes in the ground looking for oil and gas, while people in Washington are sitting at desks with Internet access.

Not all that much of a Canadian Border Effect here, more of an Atlantic Seaboard Metropolis Effect.

The median states are Rhode Island and North Carolina.

The list appears to be dominated by a handful of metro areas: D.C., NYC, Boston, Chicago, Seattle, Seattle, Minneapolis, and some California metros (I'd guess Silicon Valley in the lead in California, with entertainment industry parts of L.A. in second). Then maybe Denver, Philadelphia/Pittsburgh?, Portland, Phoenix, St. Louis, Atlanta, SLC, and the big Texas cities.

States at the bottom tend to not not have big urban areas (also, sample sizes may be small and unstable toward the bottom). But I do reasonably well in many states and I'm glad to be of service to my readers in those states.

The 49th and 50th states do surprisingly well.

Among states with fairly big cities, I don't do well in Florida, Louisiana, or Nevada. As I wrote about eight years ago, would Edmund Burke have preferred 21st century Las Vegas or 21st century Boston?

Average = 100

District of Columbia	1,382
Massachusetts	225
New York	190
Virginia	181
Alaska	151
New Hampshire	151
Washington	146
Illinois	141
Maryland	140
California	126
New Jersey	122
Connecticut	115
Minnesota	113
Hawaii	108
Colorado	99
Pennsylvania	98
Oregon	87
Arizona	79
Missouri	78
Georgia	77
Utah	76
Texas	75
New Mexico	75
Michigan	75
Rhode Island	74
North Carolina	74
Oklahoma	73
Delaware	72
Montana	68
Nebraska	67
Maine	65
Kansas	64
Tennessee	60
Idaho	60
Ohio	57
South Dakota	56
Wisconsin	54
Alabama	53
Vermont	52
Florida	52
Indiana	48
Louisiana	47
South Carolina	45
Kentucky	44
Nevada	43
Wyoming	43
West Virginia	41
Iowa	41
Arkansas	38
Mississippi	28
North Dakota	27