Here's another list - (yeah, like you thought I was done yet…) you could also factor the state population by the number of courses, so if you want to see how many people are in your state per DG course - here is your list ordered least to greatest based on 2008 numbers taken from Wikipedia.
In the words of Michael Scott, "And since anyone can do stuff on Wikipedia, you know it's going to be accurate."
1. Iowa - 21,446
2. South Dakota - 22,338
3. North Dakota - 25,659 (So close to finally being better than South Dakota!)
4. Wyoming - 31,333 (Yes, in the top 5! Again, eat it Utah)
5. Montana - 32,248
6. Kansas - 36,391
7. Minnesota - 38,669
8. Wisconsin - 41,382
9. Nebraska - 41,475
10. Alaska - 42,893
11. Maine - 45,395
12. Idaho - 47,619
13. Vermont - 51,772
14. Colorado - 55,499
15. Oregon - 63,167
16. Oklahoma - 68,723
17. Kentucky - 73,607
18. Mississippi - 75,349
19. Delaware - 79,372
20. New Mexico - 82,681
21. Michigan - 86,986
22. North Carolina - 99,165 (Yeah - under a 100,000.)
23. Illinois - 102,393
24. Missouri - 109,474
25. Indiana - 111,873
26. South Carolina - 114,866
27. Ohio - 120,904
28. Texas - 128,036 (Better start getting it in gear. Can't have something we're not tops in!)
29. West Virginia - 129,604
30. Tennessee - 135,106
31. Arkansas - 142,769
32. Washington - 145, 538
33. Alabama - 150,383
34. Virginia - 155,381
35. Utah - 160,966
36. Pennsylvania - 168,219
37. New Hampshire - 187,972
38. Georgia - 189,916
39. Louisiana - 210,037
40. Hawaii - 214,699
41. Arizona - 250,006
42. California - 253,494 (36,756,666 people? Are you kidding me?)
43. Nevada - 288,907
44. Connecticut - 291,771
45. Florida - 295,618
46. Maryland - 296,505 (Better work some more DG courses into the stimulus package DC!)
47. Massachusetts - 360,998
48. New York - 453,262
49. Rhode Island - 525,394 (Think how this will jump when the third course is built!)
50. New Jersey - 620,190 (Again, always happy to bring up the rear. Really, I mean you couldn't beat a state with 2 courses??? Sad day Jersey, sad day.)
As always these numbers are indisputable fact and simply cannot be debated on threat of death.
Just kidding - I was just hoping 80States would read that part.
Seriously though - makes you want to move to Iowa - well maybe…
Also, back to the Great Lake States versus Texas battle in my previous post - here are the new results:
Texas - 128,036
Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, and Illinois - 49,818
A solid victory again even though Illinois weighed it down a bit.