America is the land of the free and the home of the brave, but Iowans are a little freer and braver than the rest of us, apparently. In what the Des Moines Register calls a "totally unscientific study," Estately ranks the 50 states on "Americaness." It used 8 "indicators that represent the uniqueness" of the good ol' USA to arrive at its conclusion: each state's number of bald eagles, guns, astronauts, fast food restaurants, MLB players, and Olympic gold medals won; Facebook interest in the "United States of America" among residents; and, um, Google searches for "Bin Laden dead." (Most of those figures were considered per capita, per square mile, or as a percentage.) The top 10:
- Iowa
- Ohio
- West Virginia
- Alabama
- South Dakota
- Illinois
- Oklahoma
- Arkansas
- Missouri
- Mississippi
Bringing up the rear? Nevada. Click for
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