With a little over a month left in the Lenten Season, analysts are the Personal Finance website WalletHub came up with a list of 2018’s Most Sinful States. Jill Gonzalez says Georgia ranked surprisingly high on that list.
"When we're talking about sin here, we're kind of gaging it from the seven deadly sins. So anger and hatred, jealousy, excesses and vices, greed, lust, vanity and sloth or laziness," said Gonzalez. "Georgia ranked in the top five as far as sinning, only behind Florida, California, Nevada and Texas."
They found Georgia ranked highest in two areas.
"So here we're seeing that when it comes to things like jealousy and lust, that's where Georgia was particularly sinful. It ranked second in both of those things. For lust, we looked at things like average time spent on adult entertainment sites, Google searches for those sites, and teen birth rate as well. For jealousy we looked at things like theft per capita, and identify theft and fraud complaints as well," said Gonzalez.
The vice of smoking alone costs the U.S. over $300 billion a year.
According to WalletHub, Vermont has the worst drug use problem, Nevada is the worst for gambling addictions, and Florida is the most sinful state in the union.
To view the complete list: https://wallethub.com/edu/most-sinful-states/46852/.
