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Google Data Shows the Most Obscenity-Obsessed U.S. Cities

by Terrence O'Brien on November 11, 2009 at 08:25 AM

Google Trends Reveal the Most Obscenity Obsessed Cities in America
Last year, The Business Insider -- inspired by an obscenity case in Pensacola, Florida -- checked out the Google Trends data for each of the "seven dirty words." The defense attorney in the case had planned to use Google search data to show that Pensacola's morals were lax in comparison to the rest of the country. The research never saw the light of day, but that didn't stop The Business Insider from performing its own analysis of search statistics to determine the most obscene cities in America.

A year later, The Business Insider decided it was time to update the rankings, and last year's surprise winner -- Louisville, Kentucky -- really cleaned up its act and dropped to number 10. Several major cities are featured on the list, including Boston and Philadelphia, but, amazingly, New York avoided placing in the top 10. Take that, other East Coast metropolitan areas!

People are also notably foul-mouthed in the home of Disney World, Orlando, which we think is a perfectly natural reaction to living in the headquarters of the most wholesome place on earth. Ironically enough, that mecca of more adult entertainment, Las Vegas, managed to escape inclusion this year.

So, what's the cussingest city in the U.S.A.? The small D.C. suburb of Herndon, Virginia, once and for all proving that the suburbs are a great place to raise a family -- a degenerate, filthy-minded family, that is. Check out the whole list here. [From: The Business Insider]

Tags: cities, funny, google trends, GoogleTrends, obscenity, search engines, SearchEngines, top

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