I was looking at US-born Nobel Prize winners in the sciences by birth region and was struck by the paucity from the South. Anyone know why the South is such an intellectual desert?
Numbers are by decade 1960s to 2010s
South: 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1
Midwest: 6, 8, 9, 10, 10, 11
Northeast: 10, 14...