More up to date map from the cdc:

http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dnpa/obesity/trend/maps/

I spent a couple weeks in Virginia and was amazed at how many morbidly obese people there were. They were everywhere and then everyone else (besides college kids and the odd minority average-sized person) was just plain ol' fat. And according to the map, Virginia isn't even as bad as the rest of the south.

I don't know why the south is so freaking fat (I'm serious, I couldn't turn a corner in VA without running into a morbidly obese person) but all I can say is nearly everything I ate in that state was some combination of fat, sugar, and simple carbs. The bbq pork was the healthiest stuff on the menu half the places I ate. I was stopped up and in a stupor for days. We finally just stopped eating out except maybe one meal a day and spent the last week eating fruit, trying to get our hearts started again.

Oh man, we didn't have any option besides this chain restaurant one day for breakfast and they had a breakfast bar. I counted something like 9 people in there who were seriously, morbidly obese, and they were all pounding down mac and cheese and grits and bacon and french toast. I was sort of freaking out. It's... unsettling to sit among a large number of people who weigh at least 400 lbs (at least, I'm not kidding) shoveling plate after plate of crap down their gullets. Uhg, I'm sorry, that sounds so mean but, my god, it was freaky.