An excerpt from Readers' Digest -
This State’s Residents Curse the Most (Hint: It’s Not New York!)
By Kiersten Hickman
Well, dang. This state sure loves a good cussing.
In some cases, swearing makes you feel better. No, really! There’s science behind it. Research shows that profanity can help keep your emotions in check and positively correlates with honesty. It can even reduce your perception of pain. Pardon our French, but cursing comes in handy, gosh darn it!
So if you can’t help but swear, well, that’s not such a bad thing. Still, swearing isn’t for everyone. In fact, a new survey shows that residents of some states use more profanity than others.
To find out which U.S. state is the “sweariest” of them all, WordTips analyzed 1.7 million English-language geotagged posts on the social platform X (formally Twitter) and used a database of 1,600 profanities to uncover the most and least foul-mouthed places. Read on to find out which states’ residents curse the most and which are most likely to refrain from using profanity.
What other states round out the top five?
Along with Maryland, here are the states that tend to use the most curse words online (plus their average number of curse-word-laden posts):
Maryland (66.3 posts on average)
Louisiana (61.7 posts on average)
Georgia (57.4 posts on average)
Virginia (47.6 posts on average)
Ohio (47.3 posts on average)
After Ohio, many other states averaged in the 45-post range, including Mississippi (45.9), Pennsylvania (45.7), New Jersey (45.5), Nevada (45.5), Michigan (45.3) and Illinois (45).
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