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Smartest cities: Greensboro

Raleigh is the smartest city in America?

Well, it does have strong newspaper readership.

(I'll leave it to Andrew Brod to critique the criteria. But the commentary on both Raleigh and Charlotte notes the citizenry's political engagement. Greensboro's recent 6 percent doesn't bode well.)

Still, the Triad made it to 37. Here's its back-hand to Greensboro:

North Carolina’s Piedmont Triad, consisting of Greensboro, Winston-Salem, and High Point, has always existed in the shadow of another trio just to its east—the nationally known Research Triangle of Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill. The Triad’s ranking here won’t change anything. The Research Triangle tops our list while the Triad ends up in the bottom half. with an IQ score of 83. Better luck when Wake Forest hosts UNC this season.

Even so, Greensboro is ahead of Miami, Houston, Dallas, Orlando and Vegas.

Update: Funny comment from Tahoeman1971 here. Anyone that reads the LTE (letter to the editor) comments on this site could have told you this news.

Update II: Hello, idiots of Fresno. The Fresno Bee's first paragraph in its story about the city coming in 55th, or last.

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Posted by John Robinson on Friday, October 9, 2009 at 7:20 am

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tghdobro

October 9, 2009 - 8:27 am EDT

As someone who has lived in several of the cities listed and is now a proud citizen of Greensboro, I am highly skeptical of these findings. These broadly derived rankings create interest and buzz but probably mean very little. I interact with Greensboro citizens at the Natural Science Center daily and am inspired by the interest, engagement and inquisitive nature of our visitors.