Study: Nashville is 'manliest city'
Nashville Business Journal
A new study ranks Nashville as "America's Manliest City," because of its concentration of NASCAR enthusiasts and barbeque restaurants and its popularity for hunting and fishing.
The study, done by Sperling's BestPlaces, ranked the 50 largest metropolitan areas. The city's manliness was determined by how many American-made cars were driven in the city, the number of sports bars and barbeque restaurants, number of home improvement and hardware stores and salty snacks consumption. (Mars Inc., the maker of Combos, paid for the study.)
Cities lost points in the study for having an abundance of home furnishing stores, high minivan sales and subscription rates to beauty magazines.
Charlotte, N.C., and Oklahoma City ranked second and third in the study for manliest.
New York was last, losing points in the fishing, home improvment and drag racing categories - despite high rankings in the bowling category.
St. Louis has the highest concentration of sports bars in the country, and Grand Rapids, Mich., has the most monster truck rallies per capita, according to the study. http://www.bizjournals.com/nashville/stories/2009/03/02/daily37.html
Denver knee-deep in macho men
Run home to your mommas, Chicago and New York City.
Denver is among America's five "manliest" cities, while the Windy City and the Big Apple landed in the bottom five, according to a Sperling's Best Places study, out Thursday.
Nashville, Tenn., is the king of the hill because of its NASCAR fans, barbecue restaurants and men who hunt and fish, according to the macho meter commissioned by the makers of the pretzel snack Combos to promote its Ultimate Man Zone sweepstakes.
The study scored the top 50 major metro areas in a number of "manly" categories, including the number of sports bars, monster-truck pulls, hardware stores and salty-snack consumption per capita.
The top five
1. Nashville, Tenn.
2. Charlotte, N.C.
3. Oklahoma City
4. Cincinnati
5. Denver
lmfao all the way to fuckin' jamba juice.
