Ohio Ranks Fourth Lowest in Tolerance

Google image search Ohio and Tolerance, and this image comes up.
  • Google image search Ohio and Tolerance, and this image comes up.

The Daily Beast busted out another set of rankings in their perpetual land grab for page views, this time grading each fine state in this union based on tolerance, which as you might have suspected, is a tough idea to grade based on a haphazard collection of fuzzy data, but one that they soldiered on in compiling nonetheless.

The verdict for the great Buckeye State was not favorable. The numbers seem to indicate that we are less tolerant than a closeted gay Baptist minister in Alabama, and that if if that gay Baptist minister came out of the closet and moved to Ohio, we would not smile upon him, our brother.

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Vince Grzegorek

Vince Grzegorek has been with Scene since 2007 and editor-in-chief since 2012. He previously worked at Discount Drug Mart and Texas Roadhouse.
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