Iowa Nice Is A Real Thing When You See How Little They Swear

I'm going to be honest with you, Iowans do swear. Trust me, I'm a primary offender.

But Iowans do have the really lovely stigma of being "Iowa nice." What is Iowa nice? It's waving the other car through the intersection although you were there 19 minutes before them. It's saying "Ope, sorry!" for simply turning the corner at the grocery store and you think someone is going one way but you stop because you're not sure and somehow it's your fault. It's doing the Jeep wave on a quiet road in any vehicle because they are also on that road and it feels weird if you don't.

While Iowa nice is a real thing, so apparently is the lack of swearing (not counting the 2023 Iowa football season). A new study finds that Iowans don't have a potty mouth compared to other states. How did they find this out?

Iowa Doesn't Need Its Mouth Washed Out With Soap

That's because Wordtips found them to be the 6th state that swears the least.

To do so, they found the percentage of geotagged English tweets (sample of 1.7 million tweets) from each location that contained any swear words. The list of swear words is 1,600 words deemed profane and their variations from Surge AI. Wordtips manually removed some words that were more generic in nature when presented without context. They also filtered the data to allow only one tweet per user so we wouldn't bias the results based on certain users.

This is their map of states that swear the most and least:

Obviously, the Midwest is the nicest region in the U.S., except for a few states *cough* Illinois *cough*. Illinois is the 11th-most fouled mouth state in America.

Luckily, this study also shows which cities in each state swear the most. Guess who was named number one in Iowa...

That's right, Davenport!

But amongst the 50 cities that swear the most in each respective state, Davenport was the 8th-least swearing city.

You can find more about the bull$*#t study here.