Yes, I realise over half the country means something around 75 millions people, and this is taken from a very well known Quebec science program which is on the air of Société Radio-Canada, the francophone side of the national governmental television channel, who themselves often take their sources from science reports from the BBC, British Broadcasting Channel.
As for seeing half of the american population, I myself have been to Atlanta, Alabama, stae of New York, Vermont and the state of Washington near Seatle, a few friends of mine went to New York City, Boston, Atlantic City, Washington, Virginia, Maryland, Maine, Vermont, California, Florida, and two friends of mine did a road trip that took them through half the country, going from Montreal to Beachgrove, Tennesse (Rochester, Buffalo, Cleaveland, Columbus, Louisville, Nashville, to name the larger towns they saw) and everyone I talk to says the same : in the "high living" areas such as New York, Los Angeles, the well-known and touristic area, people are shall we say "normal", but as soon as you go out of those places and into the "real" united states, here's what happens :
1- people don't have a clue where Canada is, often they dont even know *what* Canada is (the people in Beachgrove where my friend went, they sent a letter to him, and they went to the post office, saying they wanted their letter to be sent to Kanada -they said
Kanada as a joke - well the lady at the office spent 15 minutes looking in the K section of her mail codes book trying to find that country)
2- people are clueless as to what food is good and what food is bad (I exagerated for the squirrel BBQ but my friend have been offered cans of Dr Pepper for breakfast, and the whole family, kids included, were up to their 3rd can at 7 in the morning, except the old uncle who had started his 5 liter box of red wine)
3- While in Atlanta and Alabama, I can't remember seeing a single good looking woman, most people were definitely overweight, and a minority were just slim as hell (malnutrition for both cases, believe it or not). My friends who did that road trip remember seeing ONE good looking girl, in Columbus I think it was, and even there according to them it was pretty average. Laugh if you want, thats still not natural. They went to eat in lots of fast food places, and in most of those places (I can testify to this as well) the seats at the tables were much much wider than those we can see in Canada, or in France or in British Columbia for that matter (I can tell as I've been there). If the restaurants have to make the benches wider, it means the customers' arses are wider, meaning overweight in a rather large percentage.
You guys don't seem to realise that all this freaky stuff you hear about the United States is real. That all I'm trying to show you here. Whatever dumb crazy bullshit you hear about the US, chances are, its real, and very often its even common sight there. Thats just how bad things are in that country.
EDIT :
But being fat doesn't make them stupid.
no, they're fat and stupid out of their own doing, they dont need a cause-consequence relation to be both at the same time...
EDIT 2 : Just wanna add, I'm the first to say there are good smart and totally normal people in the states. But they're becoming rarer every day.
