Pennsylvania and the Deep South

Have you looked at one of those maps of the states that now recognize gay marriage?  The New England states, New York, Delaware, and Maryland are among those states.  Pennsylvania is not.  What is wrong with us?

On June 23 the New York Times printed a map of the “most prejudiced” states.  Law professors at U.C. Davis and UConn used survey data from 2008.  In the survey, people were asked to rank the intelligence, trustworthiness, and work effort of different groups of people on a scale of 0 to 100.  The two professors estimated how people ranked their own ethnic group with how they rated blacks.

States where more than 75% or more of non-blacks were more prejudiced than the U.S. average included all of the states in the Confederacy except North Carolina and Virginia.  

There was only one other state in the group of most prejudiced.  It was Pennsylvania.