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December 25, 2007, 03:22:24 PM

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Eccentric America
You've probably heard the expression, "All Americans are weird." Now you can see just how weird they really are!

America varies considerably when it comes to the eccentric landscape and not all weirdness is created equal. Based on the number of entries per state, you can see the heights to which some rise on the quirkiness scale and the depths to which some states sink when it comes to providing a culture that encourages colorful behavior.

Sure, you'd expect to see California and Florida at the top of any eccentric pyramid, but you may be surprised to see Washington and Wisconsin ranking right up there among the oddest. Size, population, and regional differences alone can't explain the wide variations, eccentrically speaking, among the 48 states. What do Illinois and Pennsylvania offer that the surrounding states don't? Why is Oregon so mundane, nestled as it is between two such extreme neighbors? What is it about Florida that spawns so many eccentricities compared to the states around it?

What stands for quintessentially quirky in Nebraska might not even register on the eccentric scale in California, a quality this map can't measure. It also can't measure the relative expressiveness of a region's quirkiness quotient. In San Francisco, for example, they take their eccentricity very seriously, unlike Los Angeles WHICH behaves more like a wriggling puppy dog, anxious for you to rub its touristic tummy.

If you thought you could just drive across America, hopping from state to state in search of eccentric sites, you might prefer an airplane instead of a car. Jumping from California to Texas to Florida in search of the quirkiest spots in America means driving across some states where there's barely an eccentric blip on the plains of conformity. On the other hand, quantity doesn't always mean quality, as a read through Eccentric America will clearly show. When it comes to weirdness, some American somewhere will always measure up.
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